Stephen Sewell makes a spectacular return to the epic, turbo-charged form he forged with such classics as “The Blind Giant is Dancing” and “Dreams in an Empty City”. Written with searing passion and dazzling momentum, this play reverberates with the aftershocks of September 11. With compelling drive and theatrical daring, we are swept from cocktails at the Guggenheim to the hungry vacuum of Ground Zero. Sewell demands answers to some of the most urgent questions of our times. Where is the line between patriotism and nationalism? What happens when the Land of the Free states: 'You're either with us, or you're against us'?
An Australian in US academia finds himself dangerously at odds with the prevailing political temperature and is forced into a labyrinth of intrigue and threat. Is he being censored? Is his university complicit? Are his students and colleagues realigning?- or is it all paranoia? Talbot Finch is Sewell's new accidental hero; an academic who believes in reason, counter opinion and that we should learn from the past. But amongst the shouts of America Hurrah and Pax Americana, is he the last thinker of the enlightenment? When a mysterious figure insinuates into his life, can Talbot's marriage survive the new definition of 'traitor'? Stephen Sewell has won numerous awards for stage and film - The Boys won an AFI for best screenplay. His powerful, dynamic works have inspired artists and audiences for over twenty years.
