Pity (SOLD OUT)

Pity (SOLD OUT)

Bombings! Lightning strikes! Ice cream! Love at first sight! It’s a normal day in a normal, completely typical and unremarkable town. Look! There’s a person with a dog! *The dog explodes.*

UK playwright Rory Mullarkey stages a parade of horrors and hilarities in this cracking new play that captures the EVERYTHINGNESS of being alive now. In a madcap and heartfelt production, second year performance students find out what’s left after you’ve blown everything to pieces. 

Rory Mullarkey’s original plays include Pity, The Wolf from the Door (Royal Court Theatre), Saint George and the Dragon (Royal National Theatre), Each Slow Dusk (Pentabus Theatre/UK Tour), Cannibals, Single Sex (Royal Exchange, Manchester), The Grandfathers (National Theatre Connections, then Bristol Old Vic/National Theatre) and On the Threshing Floor (Heat & Light Company, Hampstead Theatre). His adaptations/translations include The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (Bristol Old Vic/Manchester Royal Exchange), The Oresteia by Aeschylus (Shakespeare’s Globe) and Remembrance Day by Aleksey Scherbak (Royal Court). He has written the libretti for The Skating Rink by David Sawer (Garsington Opera), Coraline by Mark-Anthony Turnage (Royal Opera House) and The Way Back Home by Joanna Lee (ENO/Young Vic). He has won the Abraham Woursell Prize (co-winner 2017), the James Tait Black Prize for Drama (2014), the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright (co-winner, 2014), the Harold Pinter Commission for the Royal Court (2014) and the Pearson Bursary for the Royal Exchange, Manchester (2011).

Written by: Rory Mullarkey

Director: Mark Rogers

Cast: Amy Scammell, Arden Dickerson, Ben Rayner, Blake Hahn, Charlotte Unsworth, Emily Lomman, Finn Allenby, Jai Sahota, Jordan-Leigh Estephan, Kate Walker, Maddi Lopes, Michael Conrecode, Naomi Attard, Noah Lattanzio, and Trinity Preston. 

Stage Manager(s): Matilda Ellicott and Montanna Conyngham 

Sound Design: Blake Hahn and Matilda Ellicott

Lighting Design team: Blake Hahn, Kate Walker, and Montanna Conyngham

Sound/ AV Operator: Matilda Ellicott and Montanna Conyngham 

Date: Thursday 11 – Saturday 13 May 2023, 7pm nightly and Saturday 13 May, Matinee, 2pm

Location: Building 29 Theatre G04
                  University of Wollongong
                  Northfields Ave
                  Wollongong
                  2522

Phone: 02 4221 4354

Email: assh-events@uow.edu.au

For more information, please see the TAEM Performance website  

Please be advised that this production has a COVID-Safe plan in place to reduce risk of potential virus transmission. If you are unwell or displaying cold and flu type symptoms, including coughing, you will not be permitted entry. Refunds will be issued if you are unwell and unable to attend.

No tickets will be available at the door - all tickets must be purchased through this site.