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Speaking in Tongues
Speaking in Tongues
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Author: Andrew Bovell Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 72 Pub. Date: 2003 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 0822219034 ISBN-13: 9780822219033 Cast Size: 2 female, 2 male (doubling)
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About the Play:
Speaking In Tongues has long been a favourite of acting teachers for Male Monologues.
Speaking In Tongues is a full-length drama by Andrew
Bovell. Two couples set out to betray their partners... nine
parallel lives, interlocked by four infidelities, one missing person
and a mysterious stiletto, are woven through a fragmented series of
confessionals and interrogations that gradually reveal a darker side
of human nature. Speaking in Tongues is a mystery for grown-ups laden with love, infidelity and mistrust, complete with twists, turns, flashbacks and surprises.
Speaking in Tongues is an all time Australian classic about
marital infidelity, with multiple narratives and a mystery at its
core. In the first act of this psychological thriller two couples in
unstable marriages inadvertently exchange partners in a night of
adulterous encounters. The situations in the separate hotel rooms are
so similar that at times both couples speak the same words. While
Leon and Jane go through with the infidelity, Pete and Sonja do not,
and the repercussions for both marriages are profound. In the second
act we are introduced to a psychologist and her husband. The
psychologist has disappeared on a deserted road after her car broke
down. Was she murdered and, if so, why? As Speaking in Tongues progresses and
revelatory details accumulate, these two seemingly disparate stories
become linked in a chain of coincidences that leads to an utterly
unexpected conclusion.
Speaking In Tongues premiered in 1996 at the Griffin
Theatre in Sydney, Australia and went on to win the AWGIE for best
play before being transformed into the multi AFI award winning hit
film Lantana. Since then
the play has enjoyed many successful productions worldwide, including
its American premiere in
2001 by Roundabout Theatre Company in New York. The play was first performed in the UK in 2000 at Hampstead Theatre in London, and was revived in 2009 at the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End. It has been mounted
by colleges and community theatres.
Cast: 2 female, 2 male (doubling)
What people say:
"…clever, provocative,
elliptically resonant and writerly…." — New York
Times
"What Andrew Bovell
does is to show us multifaceted characters, fragments of the whole
and how we project ourselves to others … a mix of innovative drama
and suspense … [and] stylish wit…." — CurtainUp
"Bovell explores love,
marriage, strangeness, intimacy, trust, betrayal, obsession,
self-punishment and detachment with generous emotional intelligence."
— Observer (London)
"A play of shimmering,
iridescent beauty, revealing the marvelous in the everyday."
— Financial Times (London)
About the Playwright:
Andrew Bovell is one of Australia's most celebrated writers
for both stage and screen. His theatre credits include Speaking in
Tongues and When the Rain Stops Falling, both of which have been
seen throughout Australia as well as in Europe and the US. His plays
have won numerous awards in Australia, including the Victorian Green
Room, State Premier's Awards, and the peer-judged AWGIE awards.
Equally successful are his films, which include Strictly Ballroom and
Lantana (based on his stage
play Speaking in Tongues),
which won over ten major awards in Australia and was critically
acclaimed internationally.
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