Archipelago Productions

Archipelago Productions is a new Australian screen and stage company, taking as its inspiration the beguiling and beautiful spread of islands that is lutruwita/Tasmania. Your generosity, no matter what amount, will help ensure we can continue to build works, develop ideas, pay our artists and ensure Archipelago's future. Your contribution is not ta... x deductible but it will be acknowledged on our website and printed performance programs. Islet ($250), Haven ($250+), Shelter ($500+) and Sanctuary ($1,000+) The Bleeding Tree by Angus Cerini brings one of Australias most successful and awarded plays of the decade to Hobart. Critics have hailed Angus' morbidly hilarious fable as powerful, visceral and deeply exhilarating theatre unhesitatingly recommended. Winner of the Griffin Award, the Helpmann for Best Play, and an AWGIE, this is vital, confronting and urgent theatre. Marta Dusseldorp, Jane Johnson and Kartanya Maynard star in this defiant, blackly comic tale of survival. The dialogue spars and parries, words rush in over one another, and the plot powers ahead at a cracking pace "The Bleeding Tree Delivers" Read Geoffrey Swan's review from the Tasmanian Times here. Past the Shallows shows us the other Tasmania, the cold and harsh Tasmania of late last century, isolated, and extraordinary, where beauty and hardship reign, where an apple from an outcast can be the kindness that saves a child. For a day. Favels writing is regularly compared to Cormac McCarthy, and Past the Shallows has found a perennial place on Australias HSC syllabus. An instant Australian classic, selling 50,000 copies last year alone. Her work is spare, precise, unflinching. Archipelago has developed a stage adaptation by Julian Larnach with Ben Winspear, and the support of Arts Tasmania.Read More