![]() ![]() “There will be cabaret seating and the performance will take place around the whole space.”Īn illustration for the season-opening production The Boy Who Talked to Dogs, a State Theatre Company and Slingsby collaboration.Īnother major new large-scale work for 2021 is Hibernation, by South Australian playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer ( The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy, Man Covets Bird), which will be presented at the Dunstan Playhouse in August. The Boy Who Talked to Dogs has been adapted by Irish playwright Amy Conroy and will be directed by Slingsby’s Andy Packer with a cast including Irish actor Bryan Burroughs.įusing shadow puppetry, Irish music and physical performance, the all-ages show will be presented at the Thomas Edmonds Opera Studio at the Adelaide Showground. “It’s about how he learns more about himself, about friendship and community through these dogs, and how he eventually learns lessons that enable him to return to connecting with humans again,” Butel says of the story. McKenna, who now lives in Byron Bay, adopted and lived with six stray dogs after running away to escape bullying and a turbulent home life as a boy in Limerick, Ireland, in the 1970s. The Boy Who Talked to Dogs, based on the bestselling memoir by Irish-born “dog man” Martin McKenna and co-produced by State Theatre and SA’s Slingsby Theatre Company, will open the season as part of the 2021 Adelaide Festival program. The company has programmed the season with the expectation that for at least the first half of 2021, it will still be able to present performances in theatres with only 50 per cent capacity.įour of the plays in the line-up – The Gospel According to Paul, Euphoria, The 7 Stages of Grieving and The Bridge of San Luis Rey (a Stateside work by Brink Productions) – have been reprogrammed from this year’s interrupted season, while the others are all new additions. “If anything, it’s about difficult conversations and differing points of view, but told in really captivating and entertaining ways – that seems to be the common theme,” Butel tells InDaily. ![]() Mitchell Butel hopes State Theatre Company’s 2021 works will help audiences re-think and re-charge. Booleroo Centre supports local agriculture industry Search All categories ![]()
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