'It had been one of those scorching summer days. Sprinklers swivelled to a hypnotic beat, cicadas pulsed to the shimmering heat, the concretewas caramel under your feet and the ice-cream van turned slow motion into our dead-end street’. Matt Cameron's arresting new play begins like a fairytale - but ends somewhere else entirely.
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'It had been one of those scorching summer days. Sprinklers swivelled to a hypnotic beat, cicadas pulsed to the shimmering heat, the concretewas caramel under your feet and the ice-cream van turned slow motion into our dead-end street’. Matt Cameron's arresting new play begins like a fairytale - but ends somewhere else entirely.
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In Flaming Tree Grove, life appears to be picture perfect. Security and privacy are coveted and seclusion is its own reward. Until the day when little Ruby sets off to visit her grandmother at the end of the cul-de-sac and is never seen again. The neighbourhood fractures into grief and suspicion in the search for answers to a terrible deprivation. Then a parcel arrives on her parents' doorstep ...
Critic Reviews
In Ruby Moon there is a marvellously achieved complexity of effects. It is a densely layered, evocative and richly imagined work ... a wonderful demonstration of the endlessly protean possibilities of theatre, of its capacity to create something genuinely new, and in this case something also unsettling, weird, fascinating and moving.'
Helen Thomson, The Age
About the Author
MATT CAMERON is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter, his plays include Tear from a Glass Eye, winner of Wal Cherry Play of the Year Award, Footprints on Water, winner of British Council International New Playwriting Award, Mr Melancholy, winner of ANPC/New Dramatists Award, Ruby Moon, nominated for Queensland Premier's Literary Award, and The Eskimo Calling. For the Melbourne Theatre Company, Cameron wrote Poor Boy, featuring the songs of Tim Finn, nominated for Victorian Premier's Literary Award and co-produced by Sydney Theatre Company, Hinterland, nominated for NSW Premier's Literary Award, Man the Balloon, nominated for Victorian Premier's Literary Award, and a short play Whispering Death. Cameron's screen credits include Seachange, Crashburn, Newstopia script editor for Kath & Kim and co-creator/co-writer/director of AWGIE award-winning Introducing Gary Petty.
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