Presented from 29 August - 16 September 2006

Directed by
Phillip Parslow(Heavenly Bodies and Beautiful Souls - Waxing Lyrical Productions, In Lieu of Flowers and Sirens Kiss  ACArts and Midsummer Nights Dream  Barossa Vintage Festival)

BASH is an assemblage of three short plays.

The First Iphigenia in Orem, based on the Greek myth, Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon who sacrificed herself willingly so that her father and her country might prosper from the favour of Artemis.  With this myth contemporised we see a Utah businessman confess a chilling crime to a stranger in a Las Vegas hotel room.

The Second A Gaggle of Saints, this piece begins in an upbeat and light-hearted manner, laden with the clichs of the American college dating scene when a young Mormon couple separately recount the violent events of an anniversary weekend in New York City.

The Third Medea Redux, based on Medea one of the best known figures in Greek mythology who kills her children for revenge. A woman tells of her complex and ultimately tragic relationship with her junior high school English teacher.

All three exhibit LaBute's signature raw lyrical intensity.  Following this South Australian Premiere of BASH the Sydney Theatre Company is presenting one of his latest works Fat Pig in September.   With the success of his first two films, In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbours and his latest success Nurse Betty staring Renee Zellweger, Neil LaBute has been hailed as a brilliant dramatic satirist with a caustic wit reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick. BASH is a serious and absorbing work of theatre it is thought-provoking, refusing to provide easy answers and mercifully not opting for post-modern amorality in dealing with these themes.

"Atrocity is the new black""The play is a dark vision of casual atrocity; "matter of fact brutality" says filmmaker and playwright Neil LaBute.

"This heady experience shouldn't be missed by those who crave edgy, provocative theatre." Boston Herald

Starring:
Renato Musolino (Danny and the Deep Blue Sea Natland Theatre, Carboni Aust. Council International Tour and Amadeus Barossa Music Festival), and

Martha Lott (Bondage Holden Street Theatres, Trojan Women, Death of a Salesman State Theatre Co. of SA and Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America State Theatre Co & Playbox). 

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