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Celebrating excellence and ingenuity in Australian playwriting, the fifth National Play Festival showcases the best new Australian plays plus a curated program of public talks and industry discussions to inspire playwrights, producers and audiences alike.
National Play Festival: 22nd – 25th February 2012
One of the plays to be showcased at the festival will be Tom Holloway’s Faces Look Ugly:
Jane is a little taken aback when she finds John home so early. The security shutters are down, the television is turned on and John has plugged in a lot of air fresheners. Jane and John are baby boomers and they agree that the young people today are not only a disappointment, but are dangerous. So when a bound and gagged young woman falls out of the cupboard Jane is alert but not alarmed. Well, at least not initially. And someone does need to be taught a lesson.
Tom Holloway recently reimagined rural gothic (Red Sky Morning) and the Greeks (Don’t Say the Words, Love Me Tender) now he turns his hand to the thriller genre. Tom plays havoc with our sense of empathy in what is a shocking, cunning, funny and meticulously crafted play about justice, the next generation and the lies we tell to those closest to us.
Anthea Williams \ Dramaturg: Polly Rowe
Tom is an award-winning Australian playwright and recent winner of a British Council Realise Your Dream Award. His most recent work, Faces Look Ugly, won the 2011 Max Afford Award and in 2006/07, Tom was one of 10 writers selected to be part of the Royal Court Theatre’s International Young Writers Festival.
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