Speaking In Tongues

​By Andrew Bovell
Directed by Dr Cate Clelland

25 October – 4 November 2023

Events from nine lives interconnect and overlap in a network of interwoven threads that meet and are drawn together. Complex in plot and structure, the play is a powerful study of love, marriage, infidelity and betrayal; it demonstrates the connection – and disconnection – between individuals, partners and communities.

Two couples set out to betray their partners, a lover returns from the past and a husband doesn’t answer the phone. A woman disappears and a neighbour is the prime suspect.
Andrew Bovell’s 1996 play ‘Speaking in Tongues’ is about marital infidelity, with multiple narratives and a mystery at its core. Love, marriage, infidelity and betrayal are all tackled in this tense, electrifying play about the relationships between lovers, strangers, and the infinite ways people may wound one another.

Speaking in Tongues won the AWGIE* for best play, before being adapted by Bovell into the screenplay for the multi AFI award winning feature film Lantana (2001). 

(*AWGIE = Australian Writers’ Guild award for excellence in screen, television, stage and radio writing.)

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Reviews of 'Speaking In Tongues'

How much suspicion can a relationship take? News and reviews of Free Rain’s production of the play ‘Speaking In Tongues’ by Andrew Bovell. The play ‘Speaking In Tongues’ by Andrew Bovell opened at ACT Hub in the Causeway Hall in Kingston on Thursday 25 October 2023 and ran til 4 November 2023. We have collated […]

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Media Release - Speaking In Tongues opens 25 October

Adapted into the feature film ‘Lantana’, this play is a powerful study of love, marriage, infidelity and betrayal. Events from nine lives interconnect and overlap in a network of interwoven threads that meet and are drawn together throughout Andrew Bovell’s 1996 play ‘Speaking in Tongues’. Complex in plot and structure, the play is a powerful […]

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Details

When: 25 October – 4 November 2023
Where: ACT Hub

Cast

Arran McKenna as Leon and Nick

Steph Roberts as Sonja and Sarah

Robbie Haltiner as Pete, Neil and John

Jess Waterhouse as Jane and Valerie

Directed by Cate Clelland.