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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Steve Dow

Into the Shimmering World review – Colin Friels and Kerry Armstrong star in a future Australian classic

Kerry Armstrong and Colin Friels in Into The Shimmering World.
‘The casting is perfect’ … Kerry Armstrong and Colin Friels in Into The Shimmering World. Photograph: Daniel Boud

The drought, the flooding rain, the pushing of 70 dead heifers into a hole: for Ray, a farming man on an unforgiving land, it is what it is. “There’s not much to feel about that,” he tells his wife, Floss, who responds: “I’m feeling plenty, Ray.”

In playwright Angus Cerini’s latest play, Into the Shimmering World, which has premiered at Sydney Theatre Company’s Wharf 1 theatre with Colin Friels as Ray and Kerry Armstrong as Floss, understated emotion must soon give way to the exposure of inner turmoil.

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