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SUMMARY:A Stretch of the Imagination
DESCRIPTION:SOLUS Productions returns to Holden Street Theatre this June with award-winning playwright\nJack Hibberd’s poignant\, captivating and poetic one man play. A Stretch of the Imagination\npremiered at The Pram factory\, Carlton in 1972. It is regarded by most connoisseurs as\nHibberd’s finest work\, embodying a radical advance in the character of Australian theatre\,\nembracing and remoulding as it does many of the strong strands in theatrical modernism. This play is a surreal black comedy\, which introduces us to the painfully lonely world of Monk O’Neill\, one of the great comic creations of Australian dramatic literature. (Made famous by Max Gilles)\nMonk’s colourful\, rambling monologue cuts to the quick of what Australia once was and what one day it could become. Monk is a distinctly unpleasant man. But he is also\, at the end of the day\, a very honest one and there is a strong impression that he has gone into this voluntary exile\, living in a humpy on One Tree Hill (he has actually chopped down the tree in a fit of pique)\, in order to confront his past and through this confrontation to explore his own creativity – in effect\, to create himself all over again using the raw materials of the life he has already lived. Beneath Monk’s aggression\, crudity and callous rejection of other human beings\, there is despair. He has lacked the courage to commit to intimacy… and is now on a quest to find his Self. But his quest is paradoxical: he must learn to be alone\, but literal aloneness is both solipsistic and narcissistic and can only result in a distorted view of the Self. \nBob Crimeen said “Hibberd’s masterpiece of hallucinations and shattered dreams gives the\nactor the chance to prove his mettle in tragic-comedy”\nNeil Jillet described the play as “probably the most beautiful Australian play ever written” \nDo not miss Solus Productions staging of this iconic piece of work \nmailto: marclement11@gmail.com \nTo Book tickets: A Stretch of the Imagination Ticket Bookings
URL:https://tasaonline.org.au/events/a-stretch-of-the-imagination/2025-06-24/
LOCATION:Holden Street Theatres\, 34 Holden Street\, Hindmarsh\, South Australia\, 5007\, Australia
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ORGANIZER;CN="Solus Productions":MAILTO:marclement11@gmail.com
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