Mockingbird Theatre has just cast Jordan in their up and coming production of Quills by Doug Wright, and it is set to be their largest production to date.

“Exuberant theatre-making…gory, depraved, revolting and—uh-oh—sentimental. On top of all that, the play has something to say about censorship and what happens when you try to suppress art…Smirky, gross-out fun with a purpose. It’s an amazing show” – Variety

Quills is a play about the last days of the Marquis de Sade, and it is a mind-wrenching and macabrely funny look into the dark recesses of man’s soul, Nietzsche’s abyss, the “terrible beauty” that exists within it, and society’s attempts to turn the common people away from it.

Quills premiered at Washington, D.C.’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in 1995 and subsequently had its debut Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop. Quills garnered the 1995 Kesselring Prize for Best New American Play from the National Arts Club and, for Wright, a 1996 Village Voice Obie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting. In 2000, Wright wrote the screenplay for the film version of Quills that starred Geoffrey Rush, Joaquin Phoenix, Kate Winslet and Michael Caine.

“Cunningly structured and gorgeously written, with every phrase turned to a high, gleaming polish. Quills is a superb piece of writing” ~ Village Voice

This will be the Victorian premiere and directed by award-winning Mockingbird Artistic Director Chris Baldock, assisted by Soren Jensen.

Cast

Marquis de Sade – Adrian Carr
Doctor Royer-Collard – Adam Ward
Abbe de Coulmier – Dylan Watson
Madeleine Leclerc – Lauren Murtagh
Monsieur Prouix – Jordan Armstrong
Renée Pélagie – Andrea McCannon
Madame Royer-Collard – Andi Snelling

Director: Chris Baldock
Assistant Director: Soren Jensen
Executive Producer/Publicist: Kris Weber
Lighting Designer: Jason Bovaird
Set Designer: Merinda Backway
Production Managers: Emma Walmsley, Kellie Bray

Meat Market Main Pavilion, North Melbourne  July 29th – August 15th

www.mockingbirdtheatre.com.au