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Summer Wonderland
by MATTHEW RYAN - Ross Jordan, Director
Tuesday 10th - Saturday 21st November 2009
Summer Wonderland is an award winning Australian comedy by Matthew Ryan. It is a true blue parody of life's trials and tribulations faced by an eccentric group of neighbours in suburban Australia. This intensely funny play is set in a quiet cul-de-sac which provides the setting for all happenings of the characters for the duration of the play. With summer on its way and Christmas just around the corner, Summer Wonderland comes to us with perfect timing and is expertly directed by Ross Jordan at TET Cue Theatre, Inglewood. The combination of unbearable heat and often unbearable relatives and having a better Christmas light display than the neighbours during the festive season is a phenomenon that all of us can relate to and Summer Wonderland exposes this aspect of Australian culture in a way that makes it sentimentally silly.
On one side of street we have Bob (Niall Corbett), the unemployed middle aged father of mechanic and aspiring traveller Foster (Bryce Allan). Next door we have timid, non-descript Eugene (Curtis Lockley) who has bought himself a high maintenance Russian bride, Svetlana (April Krijger), and owes the Russian mafia ten thousand dollars for his purchase. Then alongside we have the only 'middle class' family on the block. Mother and daughter living side by side in their very modern pre-fab home and flatette, Marti (April Krijger) and her daughter Demoiselle (Jamie Fenton). Add to these an outrageous Russian, Gustav (Jeff Sanders), the resident 'old bag lady', Mrs Leopold (Amy Blake), and Ludwig –a figment of Foster’s imagination (David Ertel) and there is no doubt that mayhem may prevail!
With the 'Christmas Light Show' central to the story the entire street becomes involved in a group 'face off' in an attempt to win $100,000 prize that each believes will solve all of their problems.
