| SYDNEY - "All the Blood and All the Water"

"All the Blood and All the Water" - The Play

May 8 to May 17, 2008

“All the Blood and All the Water” is a play by Suzie Miller, one of Australia’s new blooming playwrights, which has for its theme the love between two best mates occurring in a melting pot environment, with its subliminal trappings of sex, mateship, culture differences and stereotypes, and with its subthemes of families in cross cultures and of human persons caught in vulnerable situations. “When is blood thicker than water? And which blood is your truth?” These are two questions that could stir your feelings as you watch this exciting play. Angel, 17, who loves hanging out at the beach and catching a wave, is jolted from his peace and quiet when he is made to choose between family, friends and the girl of his dreams. His dad is an Iraqi, a Muslim, and his mom a second generation Italian-Australian. Honey, the girl he is in love with, is an Anglo-Aussie. Ryder, Angel’s best mate through school, is also Anglo-Australian. The conflict comes when Ryder’s older brother Jax is released from prison. Angel is then made to choose between his two worlds, as an ‘Aussie’ or as a ‘Muzzo’. Faced with the prospect being betrayed, he must decide between his family---his blood and kin---and the social world he thought he belonged to, with friends of different cultures. Suzie Miller’s “All the Blood and All the Water” has won the Theatrelab/Inscription Holmes a’Court Award.

The cast includes Sean Barker, Fayssal Bazzi, Emily Brennan, Patrick Dickson, Johnny Nasser, Billie Rose Prichard and Will Snow. The play is directed by John Sheedy. The venue and the performance dates: Riverside Theatre, Corner Church and Market Streets, Parramatta, May 6–8, and May 12–15 at 11am. Price is $17 per student/additional teacher. Duration of the play is 90 minutes.

Book online by visiting this website: http://www.riversideparramatta.com.au/performance.asp?pID=550
Or call 02 8839 3399 for more information.