First performed in
2005, Simon Stephens’ On
The Shore of the Wide World is the story of the Holmes family as they
try and negotiate their world, and how they deal with whatever life throws at
them. Told across a nine month period, we follow the parents, the children and
the grandparents, as they fall in and out of love, as they try to make sense of
everything. As produced here, in its Australian premiere production by pantsguys and Griffin Independent, this Laurence Olivier award-winning
play is
all at once elegant, sprawling and startlingly honest.