THE Irish premiere of Sam Atwell’s acclaimed play Bondi Dreaming arrives at the People’s Museum Blue Room, Limerick, for a single staged reading at 8pm on Thursday February 26.
Atwell, best known as Kane Phillips in Home and Away (2001–2009), has since built a formidable career behind the camera, working as a production executive for RTÉ and running his own company, Tri Moon Films. Now he steps onto the stage himself, playing Macca.
Joining him is David Michael Scott — fellow Home and Away alumnus, Lir Academy tutor, and familiar face from Game of Thrones and The Tudors — alongside Limerick’s own Mark P O’Connor, who most recently appeared in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. A decade in the making, Bondi Dreaming is a bold, unflinching work tackling mateship, innocence, guilt, tragedy and empathy — alongside drug trafficking, rugby league, and the spectre of the death penalty.
Bondi Dreaming has been produced five times in Sydney Australia including Seymour Centre, October 2009 (Best in Independent Theatre Award)and ‘Must See’ play at the National Playrights Festival, September 2010.
Admission is first come, first served, with a pay-what-you-want policy and a suggested donation of €10. For Limerick audiences, this promises an intimate, punchy and memorable night of theatre — and the possible beginning of a beautiful mateship.