The Sugar House - Valentine, Alana

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Résumé :
Narelle is Sydney born and bred but lately shes lost her sense of belonging. Something keeps bringing her back to Pyrmont. This peninsula was her familys bedrock, and the home of her extraordinary grandmother June, who held everything together through the decades: a sons brush with the law, a daughters battles with demons, a husbands decline. Life revolved around the sugar refinery. For a time this was the sweetest neighbourhood in the country. But the family bedrock, like the sugar, has dissolved away. Narelle cant fix the past, but maybe she can fix the future. A story of Sydney work and corruption, family and massive social change. A story of how Australia went from working class to middle class.

Biographie:
ALANA VALENTINE's Barbara and the Camp Dogs, co-written with Ursula Yovich, was nominated in the 2017 Sydney Theatre Awards for Best New Australian Work and Best Original Score. Ladies Day was nominated for the Nick Enright Prize for Drama (NSW Premier's Literary Awards, 2017). Valentine is the recipient of two Tasmanian Theatre Awards (2017) for The Tree Widows, and was also nominated for an Errol for Best Director. Valentine has worked with Bangarra Dance Theatre as dramaturg on Dark Emu, after successful collaborations on Bennelong, Patyegarang and ID. In 2017 Venus Theatre Company (USA) world premiered The Ravens, which also won the BBC International Radio writing Award in 2013, and the National Library of Australia published Dear Lindy. Other works include The Sugar House, Ear to the Edge of Time, Letters to Lindy, and a jazz song cycle Flight Memory. Valentine is the co-recipient of a writing fellowship at the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney. www.alanavalentine.com...

Sommaire:
Narelle is Sydney born and bred but lately she's lost her sense of belonging. Something keeps bringing her back to Pyrmont. This peninsula was her family's bedrock, and the home of her extraordinary grandmother June, who held everything together through the decades: a son's brush with the law, a daughter's battles with demons, a husband's decline. Life revolved around the sugar refinery. For a time this was the sweetest neighbourhood in the country. But the family bedrock, like the sugar, has dissolved away. Narelle can't fix the past, but maybe she can fix the future. A story of Sydney - work and corruption, family and massive social change. A story of how Australia went from working class to middle class. 'Valentine, an essential Australian dramatist, writes the marginalised and oft-persecuted fringes of Australia into our dramatic canon with long-denied dignity and grace. The Sugar House is a gift of theatre...