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By Jessica Blank and Erik Jansen. Sol3. Directed by Andrei Schiller-Chan. Chapel off Chapel. May 20th-June 7th, 2015. Two statements that are generalisations but nonetheless true. 1)    Great theatre is exhilarating and transcendent. It touches something deep inside, enlightening and elevating each member of the audience. 2)    Great theatre is as rare as hen’s teeth. Well it maybe rare, but it’s not difficult to find – in this case it’s just a… Read More

The Exonerated is a powerful play about death row and is being performed at Chapel off Chapel in The Loft.  Directed by Andrei Schiller Chan, this play takes real life stories of people who have been sentenced to death only to be later exonerated of the crime – their life having been stolen from them even though they are still living. This play is so powerful that it was turned into a… Read More

Powerful stories from escapees of the death penalty By Myron My The death penalty has, and probably always will be, a contentious issue. There will be one side that states you have to pay for your crimes, while the other would say no-one has a right to take anyone’s lives. While no side can be universally claimed as “correct”, the Sol III Company‘s production of The Exonerated will have even the most staunch believer… Read More

Written by Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen The #1 play of the year…intense and deeply affecting… — NY Times Jordan has been cast as Kerry Max Cook in The Sol III Company’s production of The Exonerated. Directed by Andrei Schiller-Chan, The Exonerated will be showing at Chapel off Chapel between May 20th – June 7th A visceral drama illuminating the true stories of six survivors of death row. Unapologetic in its approach… Read More

By Vivienne Mah The tale of Peter Pan is firmly ingrained in our childhood, both as a whirling reverie of possibilities entertained by dreamers that hoped to escalate past the normality of a second grader, and a quiet guide to the frightening road of adulthood ahead. In our later years, the appeal still exists. The chance to simply unanchor yourself from the mundanity of half-lived dreams is no less tantalising than it… Read More

by Astrid Lawton Set amongst the British upper crust in 1920s Eton and Oxford, this Fly-On-The-Wall Theatre production explores the devastating consequences of ‘the love that dare not speak its name’ Barry Lowe’s 1988 script tells the coming-of-age story of Michael Davies (Kieran McShane), adopted son of Peter Pan author James Barrie (‘Uncle Jim’, played commandingly by Ian Rooney), and inspiration for the author’s stellar work. Whilst studying at Eton, Michael encounters… Read More

Boyish bildungsroman and lingering love story By Myron My Barry Lowe’s The Death of Peter Pan is a tragic and beautiful story of growing up and becoming a man. Set during the 1920′s, it follows the life of Michael Llewelyn-Davies – the adopted (and favourite) son of Peter Pan author, James Barrie – and his chance encounter with fellow student Rupert Buxton. Kieran McShane and Jordan Armstrong do a flawless job as… Read More

Set in the most romantic of times and in the most romanticised of places – 1920s Paris, Eton and Oxford – The Death Of Peter Pan is an emotionally stirring biographic tale of repressed desire, love and dreamy adulation. Written by the scribe of all things passionate, Barry Lowe, and directed by Robert Chuter, The Death Of Peter Pan is being given the usual Fly-On-The-Wall theatre treatment. Bristol-born and now Melbourne-based actor, Jordan Armstrong, tackles the… Read More

Jordan was recently cast as Rupert Buxton in Fly-On-The-Wall Theatres 2013 production of The Death of Peter Pan Written by Barry Lowe Directed by Robert Chuter May 15th – 26th at Chapel off Chapel “To fall in love, really in love, would be an awfully big adventure…”   It’s Armistice Night, November, 1918, and Michael Llewelyn-Davies, adopted son of James Barrie, famed author of Peter Pan, has gone AWOL from Eton to celebrate the… Read More

Jordan has been cast as Marc Christian in the rehearsed reading of Playing Rock Hudson by Cameron Lukey for 2013 Midsumma’s Playing-in-The-Raw. “Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.” PLAYING ROCK HUDSON By Cameron Lukey, directed by Ben Steel featuring Jordan Armstrong, Christopher Pender, Michelle Brooks, Shane Savage, Jonathan Dyer, Kieran McShane, David Morris, Andrew Murrell, Chris Gaffney + Jeremy Kewley One of America’s… Read More