2013
Sydney Bridge Upside Down
"There was an old man who lived on the edge of the world and he had a horse called Sydney Bridge Upside Down. He was a scar-faced old man and his horse was a slow-moving bag of bones, and I start with this man and his horse because they were there for all the terrible happenings up the coast that summer, always somewhere around."
Set in Calliope Bay, the mythic place from our childhoods, where self-discovery plants its earliest and most potent seeds. Sydney Bridge Upside Down is an adolescent memory of when we begin to live in the twilight hours between night and day. Dreams become nightmares, friends become foes; things no longer seem to make sense as they once did. At the edge of the world a young boy tests the boundaries of his physical and psychological environment with devastating consequences. Sydney Bridge Upside Down – a sinister love story, a darkly comic coming-of-age fable told from the perspective of a deteriorating mind.
Taki Rua Production’s adaptation of David Ballantyne’s classic novel will be theatrical morbidity at its very best.
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