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The Wolves Theatre Company present
A season of Michael Gray Griffith's Plays .
Each celebrating the complexity, issues and beauty of Men.
30th October-23rd November 2024
Marooned
Marooned has been performed over 80 times and is not only a beautiful work of theatrical art but is in the running to be one of Australia’s most important plays.
A crowd Favourite, It has never ceased to wow audiences and has many professionals in the suicide prevention world calling it a revolution in suicide prevention. A claim also made by the Australian Army’s head psychologist.
It was invited to Canberra to perform for the Chief of Army with plans to visit all barracks Australia wide but this was stalled by COVID-19.
In the UK the play is being used by 10 Windsor Walk CIC, a UK-based not-for-profit community of mental health experts, as a training tool for psychiatrists, psychologists, and mental health nurses.
In 2022 The Institute of Psychoanalysis staged an event. In collaboration
with the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre, The South London and Maudsley NHS
Foundation Trust, and Ten Windsor Walk, where a filmed reading of Marooned screened followed by a discussion with.several Professors and Doctors
The play effectively explores the deep-seated reasons why some individuals,
primarily men, take their own lives. Through a blend of raw drama and humour, it ultimately leaves audiences feeling inspired to embrace life.
When Icebergs Burn
A Reading
Damien Richardson will star in a rehearsed reading of Michael's play, "When Icebergs Burn"
A thriller, it’s set in a bush hut where Lazarus, a security guard has his grown-up and estranged daughter, Angelica chained to a wall. Angelica is an ice addict who has just committed a horrific crime, yet here at the point where her life should be over she has been abducted by her father whom she hates. A man determined to finally be the father she needs. Yet despite being driven by a deep love that refuses to die, Lazarus has no money, little water, even less food and currently the police hunt is becoming one of the biggest in history. He feels they only have one chance in hell and he will soon find out, because hell is coming.
DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED
Michael sees My Brother My Brother My Brother as the child of Marooned. Motivated by Michael’s want to ask us one question, theatrically; If we treat our beautiful sons as though they should be ashamed of their natural masculinity, what do you think will happen to their souls?
Three young men adrift on a incapacitated boat, christened If after Rudyard Kipling’s great poem, are drifting out to sea. Initially it appears to be a survival story, but then one young man suggests that they don’t go back, claiming our country doesn’t want free speaking, confident young larikins anymore, but rather compliant, silent men.