Open­ing tomor­row night at Cir­ca The­atre is the world pre­miere of Caging Skies. It’s a “haunt­ing sto­ry of love and obses­sion that explores truth and lies at both polit­i­cal and per­son­al lev­els.”

“Johannes, a zeal­ous mem­ber of the Vien­na Hitler Youth, dis­cov­ers a fate­ful secret – his fam­i­ly is hid­ing a young Jew­ish woman, Elsa, in their home. Her life in his hands, Johannes and Elsa embark on a grip­ping jour­ney of obses­sion and love that blurs the lines between the cap­tive and the free, the vic­to­ri­ous and the defeat­ed, as the hor­rors of the war unfold around them and each must find a way to sur­vive.”

 Desiree Gezentsvey has adapt­ed Chris­tine Leunens’ award-nom­i­nat­ed nov­el (Prix Medicis and the Prix FNAC 2007) of the same name. Although they’re both grad­u­ates of Inter­na­tion­al Insti­tute of Mod­ern Let­ters at Vic­to­ria Uni­ver­si­ty they did­n’t know each oth­er back when they were study­ing. Gezentzvey com­ments “It’s quite won­der­ful that we’ve been brought togeth­er by our writ­ing.” 

Direct­ed by Andrew Fos­ter, and star­ring Tim Earl, Com­frey Sanders,Claire Wal­dron, and  Don­na Aker­sten with music and sound design by Jere­my Cullen.

  • Caging skies on at Cir­ca The­atre 12 August – 9 Sep­tem­ber 2017

Note: There’s a Q&A ses­sion after the per­for­mance on Tues­day 15 August 2017