Black Swan State Theatre Company

Speaking in Tongues

Nine lives weave together in Bovell’s masterfully interconnected drama about love, desire, suspicion, and betrayal.

WA GUIDE

Event Details

Category

WA GUIDE

Event Starts

Aug 23, 2025 19:30

Event Ends

Sep 14, 2025 22:00

Venue

State Theatre Centre of WA

Location

174/176 William St, Perth WA 6000

WHEN DID WE BECOME STRANGERS TO ONE ANOTHER?

From the writer of our 2023 award-winning production of Things I Know To Be True comes a masterfully interconnected drama about the relationships between lovers, strangers, and the infinite ways people are entangled.

Pete is married to Jane. Leon is married to Sonja. One night, Pete meets Sonja in a bar, and they go back to a cheap hotel. By chance, on the same night, Leon and Jane do the same.

One couple goes through with it. The other doesn’t.

A lonely man pines for the love of his life who moved on decades ago.

A woman disappears, leaving just a stiletto and a neighbour as the prime suspect. Her husband doesn’t answer the phone.

Nine lives weave together in Bovell’s electrifying play about love, desire, suspicion, and betrayal.

Speaking in Tongues was adapted for the screen as the multi-award-winning film Lantana in 2001.

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