BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
DIRECTED BY MARGARET THANOS
JOHN SHAND, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
This explosive new production is among the best Shakespeares I've ever seen.
After a critically acclaimed claimed 2024 Summer Season and that left audiences raving, Timon of Athens returns for a strictly limited season at the Seymour Centre in 2025.
If you missed this five-star triumph the first time around, your second chance has arrived. Directed by the brilliant Margaret Thanos, described as "a new star in the firmament of the best Shakespeare productions" (SMH), and led by a powerhouse performance from Damien Ryan, this is Shakespeare as you’ve never seen it - raw, sharp and electrifying.
Be honest now. Do your friends suck? Not always. But, come on, sometimes...? Do they secretly love it when you screw up, fall down, miss out, give in? Do you do it to them... have you? What’s it worth, any of it? Friendship? Loyalty? Love? If it were made of gold, what would it weigh?
Well... Timon has it all... the cash, the cache, the companions, and a heart of gold. But that’ll never last, you know the story! And when it all goes up in smoke, so does everyone around him. One friend tried to warn him, but who listens to the pessimist? We all hate a misanthrope.
And yet, we hate ingratitude more. And nothing burns like betrayal. Alone and enraged, Timon runs from the world, curses the city, and revels in exile.
And wouldn’t you know it... digging in the dirt for a scrap of food... finds more wealth than he had before, just lying there under the earth in a barren field. What will he do with it this time, being generous never paid off, so what’s the opposite??
Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens is a black comedy dressed up as a Greek tragedy, a hilariously dark, joyfully brutal and very modern immorality tale. Dicken’s borrowed from it, Marx built a new world order out of it, our contemporary age sits squarely in its sights - and it gives you, the playgoer, an extraordinary opportunity...
... to watch a Shakespeare play where you don’t know what happens next, have no idea how it ends, and will be surprised at every turn.
“I WONDER MEN DARE TRUST THEMSELVES WITH MEN”
AGES 15+
CONTENT WARNING: SIMULATED DRUG USE, SIMULATED SEXUAL THEMES, FULL FRONTAL NUDITY, DEPICTIONS OF SUICIDE
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