The Bleeding Tree

By Angus Cerini

Tuesday 20 - Saturday 24 May

7.45pm

Matinee, Saturday 24 May - 3pm

Age suitability 15+

In a dirt-dry Australian town, a gunshot shatters the still night. A mother and her daughters have just welcomed home the man of the house — with a crack to the shins and a bullet to the neck. With a body to dispose of and neighbours asking awkward questions, their story unfolds with raw, rude, and brutally funny intensity.

The Bleeding Tree is an Australian Gothic murder ballad. It's the story of three fierce women fighting back. Described as “dangerous, deep, and devastatingly beautiful,” it’s a razor-sharp thriller and a hauntingly tense, visceral exploration of revenge, complicity, and survival.

With its dark humour, poetic beauty, and searing wit, it is theatre at its boldest and most unforgettable.

The Bleeding Tree was first produced by Griffin Theatre Company, 7 August 2015 at the SBW Stables Theatre, Sydney, Australia

WAF @ PAT

6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22 June

Various Times

WAF@PAT will feature seven plays (six for adult audiences and two for children), together with workshops, new writing, cabaret, music and other activities. The plays will be performed over the course of three weekends, Friday to Sunday: 6, 7, 8 June, 13, 14, 15 June and 20, 21, 22 June. Each play will have three performances.

Putney Plays - Black Mountain

Putney Plays - Fairytaleheart

Putney Plays - Taken

Putney Plays - Glory Dazed

Putney Plays - The Actor's Nightmare

Putney Plays - There

First Look - New Writing

Cabaret Night

For children and families

The Gardener

Spreading the Joy

Putney Plays -

Black Mountain

by Brad Birch

Directed by 

Justin Hopper

Production dates:

Friday 6th June 7.45pm

Saturday 7th June 4.30pm

Sunday 8th June 8pm

You were out here. Before. But I waited. I waited until it was dark.

Rebecca and Paul are running away to try to save their relationship. A remote mountain lodge is the perfect place to work things out. The set themselves boundaries, but their half-honourable attempts don't last long. The situation is further complicated by the appearance of Paul's former lover, Helen, who seems to have a mysterious agenda of her own. You can't run forever, especially when you're being followed. Brad Birch's tense psychological thriller about infidelity, betrayal and revenge will leave your heart pounding. 

First Look - New Writing

Saturday 7th June 2.30pm

Saturday 14th June 2.30pm

Sunday 22nd June 2pm

Come along and enjoy a variety of brand new work fresh off the page by Putney Theatre Company's writers. Expect a first look at new writing for theatre in development.

Putney Plays -

Fairytaleheart

by Philip Ridley
directed by Zachary Matcham

Saturday 7th June 6.30pm

Sunday 8th June 4pm

Sunday 15th June 2pm

In our dreams we have already faced this monster. We are not afraid.

Kirsty and Gideon bump into each other in a derelict community centre. Through sharing their hopes, fears, and past experiences, they come to terms with their broken families. The pair's stories help them to discover they have a lot more in common than they initially thought. Poetic and tender, Philip Ridley's play observes the grown up attitude beneath the minds of the teenagers.

Cabaret

Saturday 7th June 8.30pm

Saturday 14th June 8.30pm

Sunday 21st June 8.30pm

It's cabaret night at Putney Arts Theatre, join us for an evening of entertainment by Putney Theatre Company and friends.

The Gardener

by Mike Kenny

directed by Perry Kitchen

Sunday 8th June 10am

Sunday 15th June 12.15pm

Sunday 22nd June 10am

Yesterday seems far away. And long ago is like today.

Joe has a new baby sister and nobody wants to play with him. Uncle Harry has no one to play with either and he needs help in the garden. As the seasons change they find a common bond as they tend the plants and come to terms with the challenges of childhood and of aging. Mike Kenny's play for children of six or older, and their parents and grandparents, is a masterclass in storytelling using rhymes, rhythms, and fun.

Putney Plays -

Taken

by Winsome Pinnock

directed by Aiste Mizgeryte

Sunday 8th June 6pm

Saturday 14th June 6.30pm

Sunday 15th June 8pm

You’re not real. You’re just another one of them ghosts.

In a north London council flat, Della, a recovering addict, barely has time to catch her breath before she is face-to-face with Nola, the daughter she was forced to give up. But the young woman with the pram sipping tea in her living room may not be all she seems. Nana Nola, Della’s mother, has a memory that is starting to play tricks on her, but she is still sharp enough to sense when something isn’t right. As time bends and the weight of the past presses in, three generations of women must navigate old wounds, unspoken truths, and the aching need for redemption. Winsome Pinnock’s gripping drama is a story of love, loss, and the desperate search for a flicker of hope in the shadows of yesterday.

Putney Plays -

Glory Dazed

by Cat Jones

directed by Paula Robinson

Friday 13th June 7.45pm

Sunday 15th June 6pm

Sunday 22nd June 4pm

Some of us don’t need to go to the desert to find out what fear is.

Ex-squaddie Ray - mentally scarred from his time in Afghanistan - returns home to Doncaster to attempt to see his kids and reconcile with his ex-wife, Carla - mentally scarred from her marriage to Ray. A pub lock-in provides the setting for the intense, darkly comic action that follows. Cat Jones’s award-winning play was developed in collaboration with ex-soldiers serving prison sentences.

Spreading the Joy

Sunday 15th June 10.30am

Putney Plays -

The Actor's Nightmare

by Christopher Durang

directed by Ian Wainwright

Sunday 15th June 4pm

Saturday 21st June 6.30pm

Sunday 22nd June 6pm

Good luck tonight, George darling, we’re all counting on you.

An actor stands alone on a stage, spotlit, and with an expectant audience gazing at him. But he has no idea what his next line is, or even what play he’s in. And why isn’t he wearing his trousers? American absurdist Christopher Durang harnesses every thespian’s most dreaded night terror to deliriously silly comic effect, as hapless and increasingly desperate protagonist George is swept up in a crazy stampede through theatrical genres from Noel Coward to Shakespeare.

Putney Plays -

There

by Geoff Saunders

directed by Geoff Saunders & Richard Seedhouse

Friday 20th June 7.45pm

Saturday 21st June 4.30pm

Sunday 22nd June 8pm

Falling in, falling out, falling apart. How to handle friendships the grown-up way.

London. Four pairs of friends. Adam and Lucas’s new friendship is tested when they discover they have very different values. Kirsty’s concern for her friend, Kate, becomes overbearing and just a bit strange. Sophie helps her old friend, Tanya, and soon realises that Tanya will say anything to get what she wants. Philip develops a powerful crush on his colleague, Jon, and puts their friendship in jeopardy. There starts with one friendship’s birth and finishes with the death of another; in between, the play explores obsession, race, political correctness, substance abuse, truth, lies, loyalty, treachery and forgiveness.