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'There are rules in this city
'Never bring them back to your place
'Never more than three shags
'Never tell them your real name
'Never mention the cricket
'Never (ever) cry
Ellen lives a shiny life in the heart of a shiny city. She hates her office job, the 'alcohol isn't making her as drunk as it used to, and she seems to be allergic to the water. But there is always the company of strangers in this city - the stranger, the better. She thinks she's doing fine, except that lingering grief has taken hold and the anonymous guy she's going home with may not be so anonymous.
'A hilarious, touching urban fable of connection and redemption, of moving and moving on, This Year's Ashes welcomes one of our most brutal, insightful and bitingly funny writers Jane Bodie to Griffin. And joining her for this deliciously dark and dirty theatrical bender is one of our hottest new directing talents, Shannon Murphy.
'This Year's Ashes is a reluctant romantic comedy about Sydney, grief and cricket.'
Source: Griffin Theatre Company.
Production Details
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Produced by Griffith Theatre Company, SBW Stables Theatre, Kings Cross, NSW, 7 - 19 October 2011.
Director: Shannon Murphy.
Assistant Director: Brandon Martignago.
Designer: Rita Carmody.
Lighting Designer: Verity Hampson.
Composer: Steve Francis.
Sound Designer: Nate Edmondson.
Cast: Belinda Bromilow, Tony Llewellyn-Jones, and Nathan Lovejoy.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Seeing Death Through the Eyes of Others
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 24 March 2014; (p. 13)
— Review of This Year's Ashes 2011 single work drama -
Power and Wit as Sad Transplant Put to Test
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 24 March 2014; (p. 31)
— Review of This Year's Ashes 2011 single work drama -
How a script Becomes a Living Thing
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: NIDA News , no. 30 2012; (p. 10) -
Grassroots Model to Help New Works Take Centre Stage
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4 June 2012; (p. 10) -
Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 16 October 2011; (p. 13)
— Review of This Year's Ashes 2011 single work drama
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Sex and a Single Girl, with Dad and Cricket in Tow to Break Isolation
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14 October 2011; (p. 11)
— Review of This Year's Ashes 2011 single work drama -
Unlikely Romance Rises from the Ashes
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 14 October 2011; (p. 14)
— Review of This Year's Ashes 2011 single work drama -
Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 16 October 2011; (p. 13)
— Review of This Year's Ashes 2011 single work drama -
Power and Wit as Sad Transplant Put to Test
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 24 March 2014; (p. 31)
— Review of This Year's Ashes 2011 single work drama -
Seeing Death Through the Eyes of Others
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 24 March 2014; (p. 13)
— Review of This Year's Ashes 2011 single work drama -
Turning to Ashes
2011
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 9 October 2011; (p. 13) -
Humour Brings Hope
2011
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14 October 2011; (p. 11) Gifted playwright Jane Bodie mixes grief, cricket and Sydney to craft the romantic comedy This Year's Ashes. -
Grassroots Model to Help New Works Take Centre Stage
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4 June 2012; (p. 10) -
How a script Becomes a Living Thing
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: NIDA News , no. 30 2012; (p. 10)
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