Midsummer Australian Tour 2012

05 January 2012 ← return to listing

One of our best-loved and most travelled works of recent years is on the road again.

Midsummer will begin an Australian tour as the international highlight of Sydney Theatre Company's 2012 Main Stage season, before taking in dates Canberra, Wollongong and Brisbane (25 Jan-29 April).

We are staging two special performances of the show before this to help raise funds for the tour, on Thursday 19 and Friday 20 January.

One of the Traverse's biggest hits of recent years, Midsummer [a play with songs] is the story of Bob and Helena and a great lost weekend of bridge burning, car chases, wedding bust ups, bondage miscalculations, midnight trysts and horrible hungover self loathing misery.

Midsummer began life as the pilot project of the Traverse Theatre's experimental strand of work, Traverse Too. David Greig and Gordon McIntyre were asked to create a piece of work using a small budget and very short rehearsal time, which allowed them to take greater risks. The resulting play has toured the UK, and to Ireland, Canada and Washington.

Midsummer was first produced at the Traverse in 2008. It won four nominations at the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland 2009, including best play and best production.

To download a full press release on the tour, please click here.