W.A. Premiere of Other Desert Cities

Black Swan State Theatre Company presents the West Australian Premiere of Other Desert Citiesby Jon Robin Baitz (best known as the creator and writer of TV hit Brothers & Sisters, and as a writer for The West Wing and Alias!) from 20 July to 4 August 2013.

After a six-year absence, Brooke returns to her parents’ home in Palm Springs, California, with a bombshell. She is about to publish a memoir about a terrible event in her family’s past, a tragedy that her parents do not want to remember.

Brooke has come home to draw a line in the sand and is daring her family to cross it. Her brother won’t play her game; her aunt knows way too much and her parents fall into all their old routines as they plead with her to keep their story quiet. In this family, secrets are currency and everyone is rich.

Other Desert Cities is about a girl who comes home with a story about where she is from, who her people really are, what she thinks they really are. Her parents represent an Establishment that she feels has betrayed her country. She goes to war with them and blood is spilled.

Nominated for five Tony Awards including Best Play (2012). Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2012).

Featuring: Janet Andrewartha, Conrad Coleby, Robert Coleby Rebecca Davis and Vivienne Garrett.

Director: Kate Cherry. Set & Costume Designer: Christina Smith. Lighting Designer. Trent Suidgeest  Sound Designer: Tony Brumpton. Assistant Director: Emily McLean. Vocal Coach: Julia Moody.

Venue: Heath Ledger Theatre, State Theatre Centre, 174 William St, Perth.

Warning: Coarse language, adult themes, smoking & drug use. Tickets through ticketek.com.au, Ticketek outlets or 1300 795 012

Image: Other Desert Cities. Rebecca Davis. Image by Robert Frith.

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