Switzerland makes it to the Top Five - TWICE

In the Canberra Times (18/12/18), both Peter Wilkins and Alanna Maclean listed their Top Five productions in Canberra for the 2018 year, and Switzerland earned a prominent place on each list.

From Alanna Maclean:

Karen Vickery and Lachlan Ruffy clearly relished Johanna Murray-Smith’s riveting two-hander about an encounter between fierce novelist Patricia Highsmith and mild mannered Edward Ridgeway, sent to persuade her to sign a contract to write a final Ripley novel. Under Jordan Best’s direction for Pigeonhole Theatre, this was tense, funny and superbly done. It’s a great piece for two actors and this pair ripped through it.

The full article can be found HERE.

Karen Vickery and Lachlan Ruffy in Switzerland (July 2018)

From Peter Wilkins:

As part of the Canberra Theatre’s Collected Works 2018 Subscription Season, Pigeonhole Theatre followed up its previous outstanding success, Playhouse Creatures, with Joanna Murray-Smith’s riveting psychological thriller based on the life of crime writer Patricia Highsmith. In the intimacy of the Courtyard Studio, Murray-Smith’s play held the audience spellbound by its unfolding tension and surprising twists and turns.

What made this production so powerful and arresting were the gripping performances of Karen Vickery as Highsmith and Lachlan Ruffy as the enigmatic visitor Edward Ridgeway. Under Jordan Best’s astute direction, this cat-and-mouse battle of wills yet again consolidated Pigeonhole as a leading Canberra theatre company capable of the highest professional standards.

The full article can be found HERE.