Fury is one of those powerful words that conjures up more images than its two little syllables should possibly have the power to contain. If there was ever a sign that a play was going to be powerful and moving, the title of the latest work from playwright Joanna Murray-Smith is it.
Fury is a family drama about the kind of liberal, middle class family that you’d expect to attend a play at the Sydney Theatre Company. According to STC Artistic Director Andrew Upton, who directs the very first staging of the play, “It’s deliberately set in an identifiable world, and concerned with the hypocrisy of that world of privilege.” The family are rocked to the core by a series of revelations in a work that “asks the big questions about the consequences of our actions,” says Upton.
In reflecting the audience’s own suppressed and buried fury back to themselves, the play makes us question how we live, and the choices we make – “the choice to be civilized, versus our survivor instinct for animal brutality.” (LZ)
Apr 15 – Jun 8, Sydney Theatre Company, Wharf 1, Pier 4/5 Hickson Rd, Walsh Bay, $50-95, 02 9250 1777, sydneytheatre.com.au
