The Emperor of Sydney

2006 play by Louis Nowra

The Emperor of Sydney is a play by Australian playwright Louis Nowra, the third part of the Boyce trilogy following The Woman with Dog's Eyes and The Marvellous Boy.[1] The play is a single continuous scene set at night in the living room of Beauchamp, the Boyce family mansion, where the father is dying upstairs.[2]

It was first performed at the SWB Stables on 16 August 2006 by the Griffin Theatre Company[1] with the following cast:

  • Voice (of Malcolm Boyce, dying patriarchal property developer): doubled by the actors playing his sons
  • Keith, his eldest son: Jack Finsterer[2]
  • Todd, his middle son: Alex Dimitriades[2]
  • Luke, his youngest son: Toby Schmitz[2]
  • Diane, Todd’s wife: Anita Hegh[1]
  • Gillian, Keith’s wife: Sibylla Budd[2]

The production:

  • Director: David Berthold[2]
  • Designer Nicholas Dare[1]
  • Lighting designer: Matt Marshall[1]

References

Nowra, Louis, The Boyce trilogy, Sydney: Currency Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-86819-798-2

  1. ^ a b c d e "The Emperor of Sydney". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "The Emperor of Sydney". Star Observer. 2008-04-20. Retrieved 2023-06-06.

External links

  • Interview with actors Alex Dimitriades and Sibylla Budd