This Uncharted Hour
‘Lingers like a disconcerting but instructive dream’
The Australian
‘Soars at many points to the high lyric’
The Advertiser
‘Exquisitely wrought’
The Messenger
Luka is going to get coffee, when he hits and kills a dog. Trying to find its owner, he catches the eye of an unknown woman. And suddenly he is remembering his mother, and the looks she gave, and the brother that came before him, who was gone before him, who he should have been. Thrust back into youth and the shadow of an absent sibling, Luka must chart a course through those hours which resonate for years.
AWARDS
2007 Oscart Award: Best Playwright
2006 Jill Blewett Playwrights Award
CAST SIZE
5 performers: 2F, 3M
Previous seasons: 2F, 3M (plus 1 or 2 live musicians)
AUDIENCE SIZE
A work for teenagers & adults (adult themes)
LENGTH
60 minutes
SEASONS
2014
St Martin’s Lutheran College, Mt Gambier, Australia (produced by St Martin’s)
2011
Hobart Theatre Royal, Australia (produced by Tasmania Performs)
2008
Peacock Theatre, Australia (reading – produced by Salamanca Arts Centre)
2007
State Theatre Company SA (produced by Brink Productions/STCSA)
Tasmania Performs production 2011, as discussed by actress Jane Longhurst
FIRST PRODUCED
- Commissioned by Brink Productions, 2005
- First produced by Brink Productions/State Theatre Company of SA, 2007
- First directed by Chris Drummond