Darlinghurst Theatre Company to present Sydney premiere of West-end hit, Constellations. Darlinghurst Theatre Company presents an explosive, head in the stars comedy about love, fate and free will. Nick Payne’s Constellations will preview from 8 August with the Sydney Premiere on 12 August at the Eternity Playhouse. Multiverse theory is explored through the infinite possibilities of a single relationship. Roland meets Marianne at a barbeque. She’s a physicist, he’s a beekeeper. They are an unlikely match, but this is not your average boy-meets-girl love story. Constellations opened at London’s Royal Court Theatre in 2012 to rave reviews before moving to the West-End later that year. It won the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play, making Payne the youngest playwright to win the award at 29. Director Anthony Skuse is thrilled to bring this production to Sydney for the first time before it premieres on Broadway in January starring Oscar-nominated actor, Jake Gyllenhaal. “The play’s structure is like a musical suite or a fugue; two characters dance around various moments in their relationship. Each moment is played with differing outcomes and the cumulative effect is very moving,” he said. “The first time I read the play in my backyard, I felt as if the air was knocked out of me. To be presented with so many variations allowed me to imagine the broader consequences of my own life-choices. It was as if the blinkers that allow me to focus on the now had been removed and a multiplicity of horizons opened up.” Emma Palmer (War Horse, Playschool) and Sam O’Sullivan (The Removalists, Capture the Flag) star in this two-hander, widely considered to be one of the most exciting new love stories of this generation. “If I see a more ingenious, touching and intellectually searching play than Constellations this year, I will count myself very lucky. Nick Payne’s drama lasts just over an hour but packs in more than most shows manage in three times that length.” The Telegraph (UK) “Nick Payne might only be 28, but hes already dazzled audiences on both sides of the Atlantic.” The Guardian (UK) One would be hard put to begin to do justice to the dazzling way it creates it’s own rules, while at the same time being wise enough not to jettison the old rule book either.” Independent (UK) darlinghursttheatre
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