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]
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