VERE (FAITH)
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For his latest work, playwright John Doyle (The Pig Iron People, Changi) has created a dramatic contemplation on science, spirituality and human frailty.
Sydney Theatre Company’s returning actor, Paul Blackwell (When the Rain Stops Falling, The Ham Funeral) stars as Vere, a physicist at the height of his career and still as much in love with science as ever. Amidst personal and professional bliss he is delivered a staggering prognosis and must reconcile his career ambitions and personal relationships with the certainty of his own mortality.
One of our greatest debates, God versus science, is played out with Doyle’s typical charm and cheek. Sydney Theatre Company describes the play as “brimming with intellectual engagement, gallows humour and wise, witty footnotes to culture”.
Exploring the concept of faith and what it means to different people, Doyle probes controversial territory. To some, faith is knowing there is a God, to others it is knowing the architecture of the cosmos. However to Vere, it is knowing that at the end of it all, his wife Holly is out there waiting for him. Somewhere. (TO)
Nov 6-Dec 7, Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point, $50-95, 9250 1777, sydneytheatre.com.au
