THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM BY ENDA WALSH

03.02.12

The New Electric Ballroom starts rehearsal next week. The fabulous team are researching, talking, designing and dreaming and over the rehearsal period we will endeavour to bring you some insights into the process of bringing Enda Walsh’s prodigious imagination to…

Griffin Independent: The New Electric Ballroom

23.01.12

At The Stables from 7 March. Tickets now on sale. In a remote fishing village on the West Coast of Ireland, three sisters (Breda, Clara and Ada) are haunted by days gone by at The New Electric Ballroom. A time…

GRIFFIN FOYER: PORTRAITS BY ADAM CULLEN

20.01.12

As part of our season of The Boys by Gordon Graham, three paintings by Adam Cullen are on display in the Griffin foyer. They were originally part of the ‘Anita and Beyond’ exhibition at the Penrith Regional Gallery in 2003.

Foyer Art: Adam Cullen

As part of our season of The Boys by Gordon Graham, three paintings by Adam Cullen are on display in the Griffin foyer. They were originally part of the ‘Anita and Beyond’ exhibition at the Penrith Regional Gallery in 2003….

THE BOYS: A CHAT WITH ERYN JEAN NORVILL

10.01.12

In a few words, how would you describe The Boys?We’ve been discussing in rehearsals about how the play interrogates the notion of where violence comes from. It’s an idea that I’m still tackling and something my character Nola is constantly questioning:…

GRIFFIN'S GOT GOOD GRASS

05.01.12

Griffins current production The Boys uses real grass in the set design. We spoke with our production manager Micah about the challenge of installing real grass into a theatre. How did you get all the grass onto the stage?We got…

A FESTIVE MESSAGE

23.12.11

Merry Christmas from the Spragues

Renée Mulder: The Boys Designer

19.12.11

As the sequence of scenes in The Boys constantly swaps rapidly between two different timeframes and locations, one of the first questions that arose was, how should we present these two spaces? Sam and I initially played with an idea…

TICKETS FOR THE BOYS NOW ON SALE

15.12.11

Griffin is partnering up with Sydney Festival to bring you an Australian stage classic of the stage and screen…read more here

From the Rehearsal Room: The Boys

13.12.11

It’s a summer, Saturday morning and the noise of a lawn mower is coming in through the window. It’s a fitting sound, even here in a rehearsal studio in the middle of UNSW, where we are bringing to life the…