Sunday Roast by Thomas Sainsbury

2 Actors. 11 Characters. The Giles family is inviting you for dinner.

The beast is fattened and ready for the slaughter. Father’s on carving duty. Mother is on vegetables. Adversary daughters Courtney and Diane have dessert covered. Son-in-law Francois is in charge of looking good while the prodigal son, Anthony, just wants to be left alone. Granddaughter Tamsin wants her desires satisfied. Now.

And adopted son, Rupert? Well, he just wants everyone to have a good time…

From the writer of Luv, The Mall and Loser and the producers of Mr Marmalade (Chapman Tripp Production of the Year 2008), comes a family tale of love, sibling rivalry and very sharp knives.

The Moving Theatre Company is a co-operative of professionally trained theatre artists brought together by the passion and desire to make work that explores the identity, anonymity and self-image of living in the contemporary city, and to explore the ever-changing nature of relationships in our society. 

Sunday Roast features Martyn Wood (Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Angels in America) and Renee Lyons (Life is a Dream, Backstory).

"To say Thomas Sainsbury is an exciting new talent in New Zealand theatre is an understatement. He's the most challenging, down-to-earth, funny and refreshingly unsettling playwright/director I've come across in years."- SIAN ROBERTSON

“…a playwright with something to say, and saying it with a theatrical flair that is refreshing and stimulating." – THE DOMINION POST

"Thomas Sainsbury is a remarkable talent … I can see him fast becoming a classic playwright of his generation.” – THEATREVIEW

SUNDAY ROAST
By Thomas Sainsbury
Directed by Dena Kennedy
 

1-6 March, 7.00pm
SEEyD Space, Te Whaea, 11 Hutchison St, Newtown
Bookings via Downstage Theatre 04 801 6946
Tickets: General: $ 16 / Concession: $ 13 / Fringe Addict: $ 10