Bushfire Play Premieres as Sydney Swelters

On a day when much of NSW is sweltering under the highest levels of bushfire alert, with bushfires running rampant all around the country, it couldn't be more timely for a play about Bushfires to open tonight (January 8, 2012) at Sydney’s Darlinghurst Theatre.

Zoe Carides, is directing Tinderbox by award winning Aussie playwright Alana Valentine,which opens tonight at Darlinghurst Theatre. The timely play is all about Australian bushfires and teenage arson.

In light of the recent Tasmanian bushfires, all program sales for the production of Tinderbox will be donated to The Tasmanian Bushfire 2013 Appeal through Red Cross. The cast will also do one specialperformance with all proceeds going to the appeal (date to be confirmed shortly).

Tinderbox is a World Premiere play by award winning Australian playwright Alana Valentine, it's a story surrounding the historyand experience of bushfires in Australia - acontemporary production with music, monologue and poetry that is a story of destruction and regeneration, with three compelling characters, a firefighter Tom, his teenage son Ben (who loves to light fires) and their neighbour Viv. 

Season

January 8 – 27, 2013

Theatre 19 Season, Darlinghurst Theatre, 19 Greenknowe St, Darlinghurst

(02) 8356 9987 / www.darlinghursttheatre.com/theatre19

Images: Alan Lovell and Nastassja Djalog & Alan Lovell and Benjamin Ross in TINDERBOX, photos by Patrick Boland.