tusk tusk by polly stenham
director|ruby rees
★★★★★
“Ruby Rees directs with startling empathy and emotional precision. Ben Walter plays Eliot’s wounded grandiosity with spectacular resonance and Markella Kavenagh’s physical and emotional commitment to Maggie is revelator the chemistry they share is seamless." — DARBY TURNBULL, TheatrePeople
★★★★
“Director Ruby Rees has done an impressive job of cultivating a (sibling) authenticity; Walter and Kavenagh playing off each other with panache." — CAMERON COLWELL, The Music
★★★
"Director Ruby Rees crafts impressive performances from her young actors, whose futures are surely very bright.."— CAMERON WOODHEAD, The Age
Shhhhh… Be still! There’s a man upstairs… When I stop the music, the first person to move has to leave the room. Those are the rules as they stand It’s a ghost story without a ghost. In a bare bones London town house, three siblings, haunted by the sudden disappearance of their mother, wait desperately for her call. Ellie, a ‘metro-sexual warrior’, makes up the rules; an outlaw, ‘king of all wild things’ draws on the walls; while Mother Maggie climbs them… They count hours, minutes, seconds and sheep as they try desperately, to fall asleep.
SET DESIGNER | benjamin walter
LIGHTING DESIGNER | richard vabre
sound designer | finnian langham