STELLA BY STARLIGHT - Ensemble Theatre

Australian Premiere - STELLA BY STARLIGHT
by Bernard Farrell, Director ANDREW DOYLE,
Designer MARK THOMPSON, Lighting Designer GAVAN SWIFT.

With SARAH CHADWICK, KELLIE CLARKE, PAUL GLEESON, MARK OWEN-TAYLOR, KATE RAISON & LEIGH SCULLY.

In space, no one can hear you dream...
Dermot (Paul Gleeson) is obsessed with Jupiter's impending visitor from outer space...

Dermot's wife Stella (Sarah Chadwick) has visitors from the past...their daughter Tara (Kellie Clarke) has a visiting boyfriend (Leigh Scully) whose nickname may or may not be...'Needles.'

Old friend Paul (Mark Owen-Taylor) wants to visit Stella...preferably after lights out. His wife Geraldine (Kate Raison) needs husband Paul to visit her...or there'll be a cosmic explosion of a different sort...

As the comet crashes in a heap into the surface of Jupiter ...so does Dermot's world, along with
his model of astrology, his car, and...his dog. Only Stella... 'Stella By Starlight' ...can save the day...(or night).




Irish playwright, Bernard Farrell's very funny comedy tackles the universal nature of hopes, dreams and fears in this wry and compassionate look at family life. The play is set in the present, in Dermot and Stella's isolated farmhouse in Wicklow Hills, well beyond the outer suburbs of Dublin, Ireland.

Director Andrew Doyle has assembled a distinguished cast which includes Sarah Chadwick as STELLA - (Sarah's credits include the films - The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, George Miller's Gross Misconduct and for TV: G.P. Flying Doctors, MDA, Blue Heelers, All Saints and Headland), Paul Gleeson (credits include the films: Somersault & The Thin Red Line, TV: Love My Way and for Ensemble Theatre All My Sons) Mark Owen-Taylor (film: The Opposite of Lucky, TV: Two Twisted, All Saints, Against the Wind, Grassroots, Theatre: for STC: Woman in Mind & The Way of the World and for Bell Shakespeare Twelfth Night) and Kate Raison (for Ensemble Theatre: Charitable Intent, Chapter 2, Birthrights, After the Ball, for TV: All Saints, A Country Practice, Outriders, Pacific Drive.)

'A sure-fire audience pleaser. Loaded with laughs, the work clearly reveals that its author, before he's anything else, is a showman of considerable accomplishment.' CurtainUp

'Polished, accomplished, mature, wicked, self-confident and very, very funny.' The Sunday Independent

SEASON DETAILS: STELLA BY STARLIGHT
VENUE: Ensemble Theatre, 78 McDougall Street, Kirribilli, NSW
DATES: Previews from 21 June, opening night Fri 29 June, season to 28 July, 2007
PERFORMANCES: Tues -- Fri 8.15pm, Sat 5pm & 8.30pm, Sun 5pm, Thurs 11am
ENSEMBLE PRICES: $37 - $61 (booking fees apply)
BOOKINGS: 02 9929 0644 or www.ensemble.com.au

FURTHER INFORMATION / INTERVIEWS / IMAGES please contact:
Merran Doyle 0419 999 607 or Kate Raison 0402 080 443 at Merran Doyle Publicity:
(02) 9905 4644 email: merran@merrandoyle.com.au or kate@merrandoyle.com.au

First produced at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, October 1996.

Category:

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Tags:

• STELLA
• BY
• STARLIGHT
• Bernard
• Farrell
• Ensemble
• Theatre
• Australian
• ANDREW
• DOYLE

[allenreavie]

did you ever perform Dr Fell ??

[justmaz2004]

do you have any more clips like these please thanks

[justmaz2004]

good to see a recognisable cast lots of familiar faces in this well done.