The Truth is Longer Than a Lie opens on Thursday Nov 12 at the Richmond Theatrette, 415 Church St, Richmond. A preview performance will also be held on Wed Nov 11 @ 6.30.

Please click below for all the information about the production.

http://www.truthislonger.com/

Australia’s Oldest Man is a short, grotesque, perverse comedy about Bob The Shit-stirrer, a man who hasn’t bought anyone a drink since 1899, has been pissing the Australian government off for eighty years collecting retirement payments and makes endless demands on his long suffering wife for oysters, mousse, Dobie’s Itch ointments and aural recordings of Scandinavian porn. To be played by Timothy McCown Reynolds and Clara Pagone, it plays for two nights on the 22nd and 24th October at the Pit Loft, New York as part of the Bad Theater Fest.

https://www.facebook.com/BadTheaterFest

The Truth Is Longer Than A Lie, the play, will be published by Melbourne’s fantastic Black Pepper Press in October, a few weeks before the opening of the play on Wed November 11 at the Richmond Theatrette. Thank you to Kevin Pearson and Gail Hannah at Black Pepper Press and Leon Piterman at Monash University, Frankston for making this a terrific addition to the upcoming season. The book will be available at selected bookstores, the Black Pepper website and at the performances.

The Truth Is Longer Than A Lie is currently in the refining script stages. Rehearsals will start in August with the season opening on Wed Nov 11 at Richmond Theatrette in Melbourne. More details soon.

In The Heart Of The Past – three short plays about the history of Narrandera, NSW – was performed at the Narrandera railway station in March 2014. It was a unique drive-in theatre event simulcast on the local radio station, Spirit FM. Performed by Paul Mercuri and Lee McClengahan, and in collaboration with The Cad Factory, the three works were in tandem with a local choir. The show has now become a radio play which will be available shortly. Vic McEwan at The Cad Factory is currently applying the finishing touches.

At the end of my residency at The Cad Factory, where I’d begun to work on all the plays, this short video was made.

The title of All The Things She Gave Me comes from The Waterboys, a song from their Pagan Place album of 1983. I didn’t really discover The Waterboys until the mid 90s but have loved their work ever since.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z3m2tk-Fc8

Winter Miller is a fantastic and inspiring playwright/teacher/activist who helped greatly with the development of my new play, All The Things She Gave Me. She was my tutor at the ESPA Primary Stages course in late 2013 and we worked together again for six weeks on All The Things She Gave Me in late 2014. To check out Winter’s work, please go here: http://wintermiller.com/

Andy White is an Irish singer/songwriter/poet who tours the world but is often based in Melbourne. Andy’s career spans thirty years and numerous albums, the latest of which is How Things Are. We are collaborating on a stage show called 21st Century Troubadour which will be a two act piece of Andy’s songs, poems and readings from his travel memoir, 21st Century Troubadour. We hope to tour the show to Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide in late 2015 with overseas dates a possibility in 2016. For all of Andy’s work, please go here: http://www.andywhite.com/

The Truth is Longer Than a Lie will have a development reading at Monash Uni, Clayton on Thursday June 25. The play is an adaptation of the book of the same name which investigates child abuse within the family and child centred therapy and counselling. The reading forms the first part of development on the road to a season of the play at the Richmond Theatrette from Nov 9 to 22. More details soon.