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NAGL

NaGL (Not a Good Look)

Look out Sydney and get ready for an absurd journey into the everyday life of a not so ordinary Australian family. From a career spanning the globe in Australia, Poland and Japan, acclaimed writer, actor and director, Lech Mackiewicz brings this new Australian play to an intimate stage.

NaGL: Acronym for 'not a good look'. (n) to describe something as unacceptable, foul, disastrous, inappropriate, or awkward.
A family of five strangers whose lives are absurd yet could not be more real, who are divided yet united, who represent a nation.
NaGL is a take on contemporary Australian society told through the perspective of a dysfunctional family. Not being able to stay in the same room, let alone get on with one another, they face the most inconvenient truth...they are family. This funny yet thought provoking play is bound to make audiences ponder the question whether Australia indeed is NaGL?
"I left Australia in the late 90's and when I came back in 2002, the Australia I came back to was different to the one I left. NaGL is a result of my observations. This family represents a nation, metaphorically speaking, a nation divided yet united. So funny and so tragic at the same time." says Director Lech Mackiewicz.

The characters of this motley family in NaGL are Grace, Manolo, Roman, Vata and Uncle Chuk. Grace is the practical mother, strong and supportive but also unforgiving when it comes to the crucial issues of life and divorce. Manolo, the father, loves life and life loves Manolo. He is ready to do anything and everything in order to achieve his goal, which is to do nothing. Roman is our brother, old and young at the same time. He enjoys enforcing his sister's rules, although sometimes ridiculous, and follows her in search of their identities. Vata is our sister - she hates the thought of being NaGL and believes that if we all divorced each other then we have a chance to create a better family. Vata is just a crazy teenager with drive but no direction.
Uncle Chuk is the only one who rightly belongs in this family, but who tries the hardest to earn his place. Uncle Chuk is played by Billy McPherson who says, 'Uncle Chuck is an outsider looking from the inside out.'

Written and directed by Lech Mackiewicz
With Billy McPherson, Jennie Dibley, Keith Alexander, Malina Mackiewicz and Tom Pelik
Creatively brought to you by mr.tomchuk and Auto Da Fe / Produced by IngJay Productions

Tap Gallery, 278 Palmer Street, Darlinghurst Associate Director Tom Pelik
30 Aug – Sept 25, Previews Aug 30 & 31 Assistant Director Izabella Mackiewicz
Opening Night 1 Sept Producer Tracey Adams
Tuesday to Saturday 8pm, Sunday 5pm Sound Inna Klyuchnikova
Tix: Previews $15 Season $25/$28 Lighting Larry Kelly

Tickets available at www.moshtix.com.au, 1300 GET TIX (438 849), on your mobile www.moshtix.mobi and all moshtix outlets including Red Eye Records, Fish Records, Resist Records.

For more information go to: nagltheproduction.com

BLACKBIRD 26 - 30 OCTOBER

BLACKBIRD by David Harrower.
Directed by Andrew Doyle, Starring Jo Little and Andrew Doyle.

Two people who once had a passionate affair meet again fifteen years later. Ray is confronted with his past when Una arrives unannounced at his office. Guilt, rage and raw emotions run high as they recollect their relationship when she was twelve and he was forty. Without any moral judgements, the play never shies away from the brutal shattering truth of the abandoned and unconventional love. Ray, fifty-six, after years in prison and subsequent hardships has a new identity and has made a new life for himself, thinking that he could no longer be found. Una, twenty-seven, has thought of nothing else, and on finding a photo of him, sets out to find Ray. She is looking for answers not vengeance. Nevertheless, the consequences are shattering.

"This haunting, powerful, incendiary work is the sort of daring theatre far too absent from our stages these days." – The New York Post

"A provocative, shocking and worthwhile new play." – The New York Daily News

"This is an extraordinary, no-holds-barred drama that both chills and thrills... raw, wounded intensity. Magnificently tense and atmospheric." – The Daily Telegraph (London)

In 2007, BLACKBIRD won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play.

26-30 OCTOBER 2010
TAP GALLERY
Tickets on sale from 1st September 2010 at
www.moshtix.com.au
1300 GET TIX(438 849) and all moshtix outlets