subtlenuance
presents
TRUE TIMES THREE
"I can't really bring to mind the last time I laughed as loud..." Australian Stage Online
“a lot of genuine laughs…a lot of fun to be had…a charming and fun piece of independent theatre…the play had a delicious sense of fun…” The Drum Media
Two couples collide in an impossible adventure of comic magical realism. Smart, sassy and just a little silly, True Times Three is a fast paced combo of word play and physical comedy, that mischievously muses on that biggest of questions -
Who do you think you are?
TAP Gallery, Darlinghurst. 29 July to 17 August 2008.
Tuesday to Saturday 8pm, Sunday 5pm.
Tickets $24/$18 "Pay what you can" Tuesday - minimum $10
Bookings: 0434924262 or daniela.giorgi@bigpond.com.au
What have the reviewers said?
""I can't really bring to mind the last time I laughed as loud and, almost amidst it, felt the agony of intense, searing tragedy. Now I think I get it. True Times Three. This play does multiply the truth and, Lord have mercy, it hurts! Writer, Paul Gilchrist, deserves the last, eloquent word. He's earned it. “True Times Three is one part philosophy and all parts frivolity. What’s more fun than the sound of smashing mirrors.”
"(Singer, musician, dancer, chreographer and, clearly, actor) Kristy Best, Illawarra escapee Daniel Felkai, Penny Hall (you might have caught her at the Sydney Shakespeare festival, making the Elizabethan Seinfeld episode, Much Ado About Nothing) and James Shoobridge (another Shakespearean, as well as good, old New Theatre faithful) all command their characters, the stage and attention."
"Felkai, as not-altogether-but-almost-clueless Tony, ekes out a veritable comic masterpiece, while never faltering, in remaining empathic and compassionate with respect to his near-brilliant evocation. Shoobridge pumps up his small frame to be every bit the self-possessed and obsessed Joel and, in so doing, is utterly convincing. Best seems to revel in realising the sensuality of the hedonistic Simone; consequently, so do the rest of us. Hall lives up to the name of brand-spanking-new production company, subtlenuance, in delivering a portrait of a mortgaged soul."
"The angelic Heidi Lupprian provided haunting links, in song. Technically, too, all was tight as a drum."
True Times Three....transcends itself, emerging in a faraway land of 21st-century Shakespearean pseudo-soliloquy. .. Everything assumed, sure, square and secure is suddenly rendered Dali."
Australian Stage Online, http://www.australianstage.com.au
"From the moment Penny Hall engages the audience as Angela she is the captivating force that drives this play.”
"... the play had a delicious sense of fun."
“There’s a lot of fun to be had from the interaction of the four actors, especially watching poor, hapless Tony, played by Daniela Felkai, running around in the shadow of super-achiever Joel.”
“The staging was simple but effective, the live music and singing drew the crowd into the story.”
“… True Times Three was a charming and fun piece of independent theatre.”
The Drum Media
