Cheating couples take centre stage

By Kelly Price and
CHEATING, betrayal, lust, lies, guilt, resentment, secrets and commitment – four people’s stories of different lives, different feelings and with very different outcomes – are portrayed in an outstanding drama, Speaking In Tongues.
Produced by the Dandenong Theatre Company, Speaking In Tongues tells the story of two married couples, who take part in a clandestine meeting, unknowningly to each other’s partners.
While one couple engage in a one night stand, the other couple decides it’s all too much and go home to their spouses.
Here is where the plot thickens- they all decide to tell their own partners of their fling and the audience is taken on a zig-zagging journey, as the couples engage in desperate soul-searching and face their own uncertain future.
Speaking In Tongues explores human fallibility in all of its intimate glory.
Director Colin Morley has masterfully adapted Andrew Bovell’s award winning script (which was made into the movie Lantana) and has set this compelling play ‘in the round’ .
The intimacy of the setting lets the audience feel as though they are actually in the room with the players.
The four talented cast members, Matt Caton, Joe Dias, Kym Davies and Sian Ellet, each give brilliant performances.
In the second act, the same cast play four completely new characters- all with new scenarios and storylines, but as the stories unfold they too get intertwined and connected with the original four characters.
The only blemish was that a couple of times the dialogue was a little hard to hear, depending on where you were sitting.
The play is on at the Dandenong Castle, which was the perfect venue for the play.
On the opening night, the reports from the audience were overwhelmingly positive, with descriptions such as, “fantastic-very true to life”, “I could feel the emotion of the actors” and “very intense, emotional and riveting”.
Don’t miss out on this fantastic adaptation of Speaking In Tongues.
Venue: The Castle, Hemmings Park 61A Princes Higway Dandenong.
September 2/3 8pm, September 4 -5pm.
Booking Line 9771 6666. Inquires: info@dandenongtheatre.org.au