CAST

 

Mother - Vanessa Downing

Boy- Tamblyn Lord

 

 
 
 
 
 

VANESSA DOWNING

Vanessa recently appeared in Irene Molloy in Hello Dolly for The Production Company, Melbourne.

For the Sydney Theatre Company she has appeared in The Lady in the Van, Morning Sacrifice, A Cheery Soul, Macbeth, Chasing The Dragon, The Madras House and Measure for Measure.

Other credits include Equus, Three Birds Alighting on a Field, Ring Round the Moon, Private Lives, Upside Down at the Bottom of the World, As You Like It, Traitors, Pericles, A Month in the Country and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (all for the State Theatre Company of South Australia); Live Acts on Stage and Away (Griffin); Falling from Grace (Playbox / STC); Good Works (Q Theatre and again for Playbox); Composing Venus and Season Greetings (QTC); How the other Half Loves, The Heiress, Absurd Person Singular (Marian St); The Increased Difficulty of Concentration and The Madrigirls (Company B); Wet and Dry, Daylight Saving and St James Infirmary (Q Theatre); Gentlemen prefer Blondes, Key Largo, Don's Party and Beach Blanket Tempest (New Moon theatre company); and Steaming for Wilton Morley Productions.

On television Vanessa has appeared in Home and Away, Water Rats, All Saints, Big Sky, G.P., A Country Practice, Bullpitt!, Funeral Going, Double Skulls and Melba. She has also appeared in films Mary and The Boy who Had Everything. Vanessa is a member of the Sydney Philharmonia Choir.

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TAMBLYN LORD

Tamblyn last worked with East Coast Theatre Company in Love Fix, in which he played a debutant drag queen!!

He recently appeared in 10 Unknowns at The Ensamble Theatre Company. Other theatre credits include Been So Long, Blackrock, A Winters Tale, Furious, Summer of the Aliens, Hotel Sorrento and Two Weeks with the Queen - which he toured in Britain, under the direction of Sir Alan Ayckbourn.

He will be seen in the feature film Travelling Light later this year, following his other films Felling Sexy, The Man Who Sued God, Wait Til Your Father Gets Home and Better Than Sex.

Australian television has kept him busy over the years. He has also Co-produced the 50 minute featurette, New Skin.

Tamblyn has also been directing theatre: The Pitchfork Disney, Lull, Men (public read) as well as assisting the direction of Company Bs The Little Cherry Orchard and the STCs workshop of Andromache.

He doesn't speak Norwegian but loves what Scandanavia has to offer.

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