THE PERSIANS / THE SUPPLIANTS

Inspired by Aeschylus, with addition text by Hazrat Inayat Khan, Rumi, Robert Johnson and others.

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Reaching far back in time to our two oldest playtexts, Burning House is working to create a new work about terrorism, Islam, the refugee crisis, empathy and the nature of theatre and storytelling itself.

We've put together a little featurette with our Artistic Director Rob and Associate Designer James to listen to them discuss one of our upcoming works - 'The Persians / The Suppliants', a new play based on Aeschylus' plays of the same name and a selection of Islamic poetry.

CREATIVES

Director, Adapter - Robert Johnson

Designer - James Lew

Lighting - John Collopy

Composer - Imogen Cygler

2018 WORKSHOP CAST

Donna Dimovski-Kantarovski, Jem Lai, Damian Okelich, Michelle Robertson, Myles Teakle, and Hugo Williams

The 2018 Development was possible thanks to the Darebin Speakeasy Program.