Unfortunately we’ve reached capacity for this Play Reading. You can read more about our 50 Years of the Stables series, including the Griffin Podcast here.

Venue Change: Please note that this reading will take place live at the Reginald Theatre, Seymour Centre, NOT at the Stables Theatre. Read Griffin’s COVID-Safe plan here before your visit to the Seymour Centre.

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As part of celebrating 50 Years of the Stables, Griffin is presenting a series of rehearsed play readings across 2020 of seminal works from the Stables’ canon. These readings are hosted by theatre aficionado John McCallum, former Griffin Script Club captain and theatre reviewer for the Australian.

Our final play reading for the year is Wesley Enoch’s The Story of the Miracles at Cookie’s Table.

In the 1870s a girl is born under a tree. When her birth tree is cut down, she follows it into the white man’s world, where it becomes the kitchen table that she passes down through generations as the centrepiece of family legacy. Now, many years later, a young man and his mother fight over this table and the stories it holds.

Shari Sebbens directs this reading of Wesley Enoch’s powerful family drama exploring culture lived, lost and found, the strength of family, and the binding power of stories.