The Simple Truth
Rehearsed reading
RADA
Playwright
Michael Gurr is one of Australia’s foremost playwrights. He has received the Victorian and NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and 8 Green Room Awards, including Best Play. His recent plays include Julia 3 (2004), Desirelines, Jerusalem and Crazybrave. The Simple Truth has been successfully produced by Australia’s two foremost new writing companies – Playbox Theatre (2002) and Griffin Theatre.
Synopsis
The Simple Truth explores the fine line between truth and fiction, innocence and guilt. Detective P.C. Hirst interrogates Sarah. She has come to the police station to make her confession, but is she guilty and what is her crime? In this superbly crafted and gripping discourse on love, sex, violence and dreams, the truth is anything but simple.
- Detective P.C. Hirst
- Matt Dyktinski
- Sarah
- Michelle Witton
- Producer
- Firebrand Productions