A CO-PRODUCTION WITH
““The Bleeding Tree was first produced by Griffin Theatre Company, 7 August 2015 at the SBW Stables Theatre directed by Lee Lewis, designed by Renée Mulder, with lighting design by Verity Hampson and music by Steve Toulmin. The cast were Paula Arundell, Airlie Dodds, Shari Sebbens.””
The Bleeding Tree
by Angus Cerini starring Marta Dusseldorp
The Bleeding Tree brings one of Australia’s most successful and awarded plays of the decade to Hobart. Critics have hailed Angus Cerini’s morbidly hilarious fable as “powerful, visceral and deeply exhilarating” theatre “unhesitatingly recommended”. Winner of the Griffin Award, Helpmann for Best Play, and an AWGIE, this is vital, confronting and urgent theatre. Marta Dusseldorp stars as the vengeful matriarch in this defiant, blackly comic tale of survival.
‘The dialogue spars and parries, words rush in over one another, and the plot powers ahead at a cracking pace’
The Guardian
The production finally made the stage in November 2020. Thanks to the many people who went above and beyond to make it possible.
Director Ben Winspear Lighting Designer Jason James Composer Sound Designer Glenn Richards Design Liminal Spaces
Cast Marta Dusseldorp, Jane Johnson and introducing Kartanya Maynard
This production is supported by Tasmania Performs and Volkswagen and the Tasmanian Government through Arts Tasmania