Once in Royal David’s City

Title: Once in Royal David's City
Author: Gow, Michael
Price: $25.99

Will Drummond is bewildered. All the old certainties are coming apart. His parents are suddenly old, theatre is not what it used to be, people around him are losing their minds and losing faith, the world is shrinking, and what does it even mean to live in a society any more? Once in Royal David's City is big and small at once, tumbling from the fifties to the present, from West Berlin to Byron Bay, from brief encounters to the cycles of history. It is about mothers and sons, lost innocence, omnipresent death. It is about rage. It is about the brilliant possibilities of theatre.

Presented by Queensland Theatre and Black Swan State Theatre Company - 22 April to 14 May 2017
Who are we, what are we doing here, and why is it so? Faced with the loss of a parent, do we rage against the universe, search for connection or hope for an epiphany?

On the beaches of northern New South Wales, theatre director Will has planned to share a restful, halcyon Christmas with his recently-widowed mother. But then she falls ill. During a bedside vigil, Will is forced to piece together the splintered shards of his own life, questioning his role as an artist, as a son, as a citizen of the world.

Artistic Director Sam Strong marks his Queensland Theatre directorial debut with this heartfelt work by playwright and former Artistic Director Michael Gow. At once intimate and sweeping, balancing warmth with wrath, Once In Royal Davids City is a life-affirming story about family, loss, purpose, politics, and the endless possibilities of art.

Publisher: Currency Press Pty Ltd
Publication date: 01/02/2014
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781925005042
Publishing status: AU Dropshipping