The Bleeding Treeis a revenge play that deals with Australia’s dark underbelly of domestic violence.
Melbourne playwright Angus Cerini won the2014 Griffin Award for New Australian Playwriting with his biting play,set in rural Australia. A mother and her two daughters have just welcomed home the man of the house – whom they despise – with a crack in the shins and a bullet in the neck. The only issue now is disposing of the body.
With 44 women having died violently in Australia this year alone, director Lee Lewis is grateful that Cerini has written a story where – spoiler alert – women don’t die. “I wish the topic were not so timely – but it could have been set in any time and place, and been so. I say that not as a lament but with rage,” Lewis says. “I believe that in this play, you hear desperation for social change.”
The season will be running from FridayAugust 7 – Saturday September 5 atSBW Stables Theatre. Tickets can be purchased at the Griffin Theatre website.
