Crestfall
By Mark O'Rowe
6 - 30 January 2010
‘Over-clothes strokage, under-clothes gropage: a breathless undressing.’
‘A modern Jacobean revenge tragedy that bleeds poetry and violence.’ – The Guardian
These three striking monologues are a portrait of a town in the shadow of The Bonelands, a filthy abattoir in which men are driven by bestial urges and women are meant for sex and housekeeping. It is a desolate outpost of the present day, a community which the only civilizing attribute is the compulsion to tell a good story.
Olive is unhappily married – a serial slag involved with most of the men in town, including the local pimp, the legendary Inchy Bassey. Tilly is a prostitute envious of Olive’s intimacy with him. Alison is the mother of a brain-damaged child and the wife of one of the many men Olive sleeps with.
In a town that has lost its moral compass, under the watch of thyroid man and his three-eyed dog, three women scrap and scramble through a bloody twenty-four hours of retaliation, reunion and atonement.
Mark O’Rowe, the writer of the multi-award winning play Howie the Rookie and the film Intermission.
From the Sydney Theatre Award winning team that brought you My Name Is Rachel Corrie, The Age of Consent and Bliss.
Image Credits Ella Condon and Ingvar Kenne
Production photographs
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Eliza Logan as Alison
Eliza Logan as Alison
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Eliza Logan as Alison 2
Eliza Logan as Alison Ellis
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Crestfall - Olive
Sarah Snook as Olive
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Crestfall - Alison
Eliza Logan as Alison
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Crestfall - Tilly
Georgina Symes as Olive
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Crestfall - full cast
L-r Sarah Snook, Georgina Symes and Eliza Logan
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Georgina Symes as Tilly
Georgina Symes as Tilly
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Georgina Symes as Tilly 2
Georgina Symes as Tilly
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Sarah Snook as Olive
Sarah Snook as Olive
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Sarah Snook as Olive 2
Sarah Snook as Olive
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Videos
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Crestfall trailer!
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