7-ON PLAYWRIGHTS: WINDOW, CRICKET BAT

Tuesday, 28 December 2021

WINDOW, CRICKET BAT

Some objects possess mysterious powers. They can take us back in time. They can remind us of someone. They can make us emotional.

Objects imply drama. When you hear the words 'window' and 'cricket bat', what do you think of? Especially if that window is stained-glass and the cricket bat is Harold Pinter's?

A unique collaboration with Griffin Theatre Company, the Australian Design Centre's Happy Objects exhibition is a celebration of the things that are often imperfect, but always deeply symbolic of the lives we lead. A centrepiece of the exhibition, Window, Cricket Bat is a short chamber performance for a solo actor and a curious audience, who become luncheon guests at the table of the great playwright.

Co-presented with Australian Design Centre

Part of Sydney Festival 2022

Written by Hilary Bell

Featuring Lucia Mastrantone

Directed by Jennifer Rani

For further information, visit the Australian Design Centre or Griffin.

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About 7-ON

7-ON Playwrights was established in 2005 by Donna Abela, Catherine Zimdahl, Ned Manning, Noëlle Janaczewska, Vanessa Bates, Verity Laughton and Hilary Bell. Seven minds that don’t think alike but are simpatico in this—our belief in the transformative properties of our artform and its place in Australian culture. With over 200 plays between us, our work has been produced on stages across Australia. Internationally, we have been produced in Botswana, the US, the UK, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Hong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand, Germany, Denmark, France, Canada, Vietnam, Korea and Japan. We have over 40 awards between us including: 14 Australian Writers’ Guild Awards, 4 Griffin Playwriting Awards, 3 Premiers’ Literary Awards, 4 Inscription Awards, an Adelaide Critics’ Circle Prize, a Phillip Parsons Young Playwright’s Award, a Wyndham Campbell Prize, a Centenary Medal, a Patrick White Playwrights’ Fellowship, and a Human Rights Award for Drama. As 7-ON we advocate for playwrights, initiate performance and publishing projects, and support and celebrate each other’s work. We create projects that are best served by a multitude of voices. These have included The Seven Needs (Griffin, 2007), Thus Spake Zarathustra (Wollongong University, 2008), Long Shadows (STC workshop, 2009), Platonic (Hothouse development, 2013), We Are The Ghosts Of The Future (Rocks Discovery Museum, 2015), and various works under the banner of Old Texts Revisited (ABC Radio, 2009), I Contain Multitudes (Novemberism Playwriting Festival, 2011) and No Nudity, Weapons or Naked Flames (MayDay! Playwrights’ Festival, 2013) which presented a selection of monologues from our anthology of the same name published by the Federation Press in 2012. We are also included in Currency Press’ anthology of short plays Short Circuit (2009).