
'ONE OF THE COUNTRY'S MOST
FASCINATING THEATRE PRACTITIONERS'

'ONE OF THE COUNTRY'S MOST
FASCINATING THEATRE PRACTITIONERS'

BRITISH THEATRE
Sophia=(Wisdom): The Cliffs
10 - 27 January 2024
New Theatre, Sydney
Rhoda, a local artist in Potatoland, is struggling to keep her relationship with her husband Max interesting. In a nightmarish dreamscape, she conjures replica versions of themselves, inviting them into their home through the spiritual invocation of Sophia, Goddess of Wisdom. When this second Rhoda and this second Max enter their cliffside home, Rhoda is forced to decide between whether to confront or to flee the mayhem she has introduced. Only the abominable snowman and a group of factory workers stand in the way of her escape.
Part dada, slapstick comedy; part philosophical vaudeville interrogation into the human psyche and fully a production of the true avant-garde. This mind-bending play throws its five misfit central characters into an opulent madcap world of gang violence, sexual awakening and human eroticism.
SOPHIA=(WISDOM): THE CLIFFS is the archetype of Foreman’s uniquely stylized theatre which employs an unconventional fusion of art forms to evoke another world on stage. Characterized by complex interplays and tensions between spoken language and visual tableaux, with actors functioning like objects in a series of impactful still-lifes, Foreman’s play eschews dramatic narrative action in favour of a funhouse of human creatures cluttered amongst dreamlike curios.


























'STRANGE. ABSURD. INSPIRED.
YOU WON'T FORGET PATRICK KENNEDY'S
FIRST AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTION.'
STAGE WHISPERS
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SYDNEY ARTS GUIDE
'AN EXCELLENT, INTRIGUING,
RADICALLY SURREAL AND GROUNDBREAKING PRODUCTION'
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'STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL AND ULTIMATELY
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THE FOURTH WALL
'AN IMPRESSIVE, UNPREDICTABLE, INTELLECTUALLY CURIOUS AND
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