Transparency September 20, 2011

Riverside Theatres
September 20 – 24

A Bold New Australian Thriller

Starring Glenn Hazeldine, Amy Matthews, Celia Ireland,
Anna-Lise Philips and Ed Wightman

Following an acclaimed production at the Belfast Festival with the prestigious Ransom Theatre Company, Transparency is showing at Riverside Theatres from 20 – 24 September.

In the countdown to Christmas the disappearance of a young girl rocks a small town community instigating a chain of events that will alter the lives of everyone involved. For Simon, the world he has built here was a second chance; though still ridden with guilt, in the eyes of the law he has paid for his mistake. Given a new identity, new history and a single confidante, he has successfully buried the truth of his past; even from Jessica, the woman he loves. Will events force Simon to step outside the prison his new identity has become and does the community have the right to know his true identity?

Powerfully written, thought-provoking and deeply moving, Transparency was the recipient of the Kit Denton award for brave and courageous writing in 2009. Following an acclaimed production at the Belfast Festival with the prestigious Ransom Theatre Company, Transparency toured the UK and London where its subject matter provoked much debate.

"Riverside has a very strong relationship with Suzie Miller. In 2008 we produced her powerful play All The Blood and All The Water with great success and were proud to support the early development of Transparency through Breakout which enabled it to go on to acclaim in the UK. Now we are delighted to bring this remarkable thriller to Sydney audiences in a first class premiere production,” said Riverside Producer, Camilla Rountree.

Suzie Miller is a graduate of the NIDA Playwrights' Studio, has a Masters Degree in Theatre from UNSW and a Masters Degree in Law from UNSW. The National Theatre in London developed her work Transparency while on attachment there in 2009. She was also on attachment in 2009 with Ransom Theatre, Northern Ireland. Transparency, written under the Kit Denton Fellowship, premiered with Ransom Theatre in Belfast in 2009 and toured Northern Ireland and the UK. In 2008 Reasonable Doubt was produced at both the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the NY Fringe Festival and won the NY Festival’s Excellence Playwriting Award. Her writing credits include Confused Sea Conditions, Flight/Fright Mode, Cross Sections, which had sell-out and critically acclaimed seasons at the Old Fitzroy Theatre and the Sydney Opera House Studio. Cross Sections was short-listed for the Qld Premier's Award and nominated for an Australian Writers' Guild Award. Sold, which was selected for the 2005 Theatrelab program with Cicely Berry, Royal Shakespeare Company and was directed by John Sheedy in a sell-out production at the Old Fitzroy Theatre; All the Blood and All the Water, which was short-listed for the 2006 Rodney Seaborne Award and awarded the 2006 Theatrelab - Open Award; The Emotional Anatomy of a Relationship Breakdown, which played for a week at the Victorian Arts Centre in 2006 and was selected as one of the top ten plays in that festival.

Transparency is a profoundly important play.
Irish Culture

A multi-layered, uncompromisingly provocative play about how an individual existence can be changed beyond recognition or repair by a single dreadful deed.
Irish Times
Transparency by Suzie Miller
Riverside Theatres
at Riverside Theatres, cnr of Church and Market Streets Parramatta
DATE: September 20-24
TIME: Tue, 20 at 4:30pm, Wed, 21 at 11am & 7:30pm, Thurs, 22 at 6:30pm, Fri, 23 at 7:30pm, Sat, 24 at 2:15pm & 7:30pm
TICKET PRICES: Adult $45; Conc $40; Under 30 $33*
BOOKINGS: Riverside Theatres Box Office on 8839 3399 or www.riversideparramatta.com.au
*Transaction fees apply

Seymour Centre season running from September 1 -17