By KATH GANNAWAY
THE Memo at Healesville and Burrinja at Upwey are part of a Victorian tour by Regional Arts Victoria of Felix Nobis’s ‘Boy Out of the Country’.
Comedian/actor Jane Clifton leads a stellar cast to tell the story of land, family and belonging that is being hailed as a ‘must see drama play for every regional community’.
The storyline, fusing laugh-out-loud comedy with high drama, will resonate in Yarra Ranges.
A family property, worthless for generations, is suddenly zoned as part of a regional housing estate to accommodate an ever increasing urban sprawl. (See!)
In the midst of it all, Hunter – the prodigal son – returns home to find his boyhood house boarded up and his mother in a retirement home.
He goes in search of answers in a play that reveals that there’s more to land than real estate, and more to family than DNA.
Presented by Larrikin Ensemble Theatre Company as part of the 2016 Yarra Ranges Culture Tracks program, Boy Out of the Country is at Burrinja on Wednesday, 11 May, and The Memo on Friday, 10 June.
Bookings 1300 368 333 or culturetracks.info.
