The Sick Room
by Stephen Sewell

Name: The Sick Room
Brand: Stephen Sewell
SKU: 9780868195858
Rating: 3.25 (3 reviews)

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Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

Australian & New Zealand

What readers are saying

Readers find The Sick Room to be an ambitious play with interwoven narratives and multiple settings that challenge traditional staging. The heavy themes of death and meaning add depth to the overall experience, making it a significant piece despite its complexities.

Ambitious storytellingDeep themesMultiple narrativesChallenging multiple settings

Synopsis

High in the Australian mountains, within the security and comfort of their ancestral home, a family waits.

Three generations have come together to care for their terminal ill daughter.

This powerful new drama from one of Australia's most important dramatist, is an evocative portrait of a family forced to accept that their world is about to change forever.

Sewell reveals, through a heart-breaking crisis, the impact of the political upon the personal.

The Sick Room is a wise and timely work, which takes us inside the private world of our nation's leaders, to reflect the nation itself.

(2 acts: 4 men, 3 women -- doubling possible)

ThemesFamilies Families--Australia--Drama PR9619.3.S44 S54 1999 Terminally ill--Family relationships Teenage girls--Australia--Drama Teenage girls Terminally ill--Family relationships--Drama