A new startup indie theatre company, Dark Pony, will present None So Blind by Garreth Cruikshank at The Living Room, Erskineville Town Hall, Sydney, near the end of this month, September 24-28 2019, 6.15pm.
The play, starring Martin Portus as Mr Shepherd, a former Catholic school teacher, gay and blind, “explores the loneliness, repression and moral ambiguity lurking behind sexual abuse, and the anger, emotional ambivalence and violence it sparks”.
Jude (Russell Cronin) plays the good Samaritan, but “his well-educated moral principles are shattered” while his boyfriend, Scott (Thomas Burt), a working class apprentice chef, “faces his own dark fears”.
Directed by Dark Pony founder and co-producer, Susan Jordan, None So Blind promises to be a “big story from little theatre”. “That’s what I love about our Indie scene,” says Jordan, “ – the persistence and creativity on a shoestring approach to telling a good story.”
The issue represented in this play has great significance in view of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and current conviction of Cardinal George Pell.
I shall certainly be there to review None So Blind on September 24.
© Frank McKone, Canberra
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