THE OVERWHELMING
By JT Rogers
Monday 6 April at 7.15pm
Wharf 2, Sydney Theatre Company

In 2009, Sydney Theatre Company invites you Back Stage with our appropriately named Back Stage program which includes play readings, ‘meet the artist’ forums, pre-show briefings and back stage tours.

On Monday 6 April at 7.15pm, Sydney Theatre Company will present a free rehearsed reading of J.T. Rogers’ The Overwhelming.  A ‘Meet the Artists’ forum will be held immediately after the reading, with the playwright, director Cristabel Sved and the cast.

The Overwhelming premiered at London’s National Theatre to critical acclaim in 2006.  When American academic Jack Exley arrives in Kigali, Rwanda, in 1994 to write about his old classmate and his work with children stricken by AIDS, Jack is unable to find anyone who even admits to knowing the doctor. Jack, his wife Linda, and his teenage son, Geoffrey, become enmeshed in the politics, fear, and personal betrayals that mark the start of a genocidal war - a horror all can sense is coming but no one can comprehend or control.

J.T. Rogers’ other plays include Madagascar, White People and Murmuring in a Dead Tongue. In the United States his plays have been seen in New York City at the Roundabout Theatre and the SPF Play Festival, and throughout the country. White People recently closed a commercial run off Broadway; Blood and Gifts, his newest work, opens soon at the Tricycle Theatre, London. Rogers is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and makes his first trip to Australia as a guest of PlayWriting Australia.

As this is a free event, seating will be general admission.  However, we ask patrons to book in to the reading in advance on this website or by calling the STC Box Office on (02) 9250 1777.

Your tickets will be available from the STC box office on the night.

Running Time: approximately 2 hours 30 minutes, including Q & A session