Tandi Wright Takes On Julia Roberts

Tandi Wright Takes On Julia Roberts

Silo Theatre presents Three Days Of Rain

The Pulitzer Prize nominated play which launched Academy award winner Julia Roberts' theatrical career comes to Silo Theatre on July 28 as Tandi Wright steps into the Hollywood starlet's role for Richard Greenberg's THREE DAYS OF RAIN.

A brother, his sister and their childhood friend gather to divide the estate of their late fathers. Both were longtime friends and partners in architecture; their legacy is the brilliant Janeway House, a daring and much-celebrated icon of American design. But who was the provocateur, and who the follower?
In this tense and brittle reunion, the children are offered a lesson in perspective - and not just of the architectural kind. When their father's diary is discovered, the siblings use it as a tool to unlock the relationships between the two men and the women in their lives, decades before.

Multi-award winning actress Tandi Wright was last seen onstage in Michael Hurst's
Twelfth Night for Auckland Theatre Company, and makes her Silo Theatre debut in the challenging dual roles of Nan and Lina - playing the sister in Act One, and after interval as her mother thirty-five years before. Theatrics aside, Wright is also widely known for her high profile television and film roles that include Shortland Streets Caroline Buxton, Dr. Rush in the 2006 comedy-horror Black Sheep as well as real-life survivor Julie-Anne Bryson in the emotional retelling of the Aramoana massacre in Out Of The Blue, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in the same year.

Three Days of Rain became one of most hyped Broadway productions of 2006 with a cast boasting some of the hottest names in North America; Frat Pack member and star of The 40 Year Old Virgin Paul Rudd, Alias actor Bradley Cooper and Hollywood star Julia Roberts. Three Days of Rain premiered off Broadway in 1997, and as Greenberg's stock in the industry rose, so did the demand from both audiences and actors to get involved in Greenburg's urbane take on the nature of inheritance and the peril of interpreting the past.

Greenberg's accolades include a stack of awards for his homage to American baseball Take Me Out which played to capacity attendance and critical acclaim at Silo Theatre last year. Richard Greenberg was the most-produced contemporary dramatist in America last year.

Glen Drake (that hilarious guy from the ferret.co.nz advertising campaign; Up For Grabs) and Eryn Wilson (The Tutor; The Jungle) join Tandi Wright on stage for this beautiful portrayal of how history collides with the human heart. Led by Silo Theatre director Shane Bosher, Three Days of Rain is sure to deliver a downpour of theatrical brilliance.

"The sins of the fathers (and mothers) make for bittersweet elegy in 'Three Days of Rain', Richard Greenberg's poignant unsettling new play...it demonstrates in heartbreaking detail how little we know about the people who most shape our lives "
- Variety

THREE DAYS OF RAIN plays
28th July - 25th August 2007

Directed by Shane Bosher, featuring Tandi Wright, Eryn Wilson and Glen Drake
Monday and Tuesdays at 7pm, Wed - Sat 8pm. No Performances Sundays.
Bookings through Ticketmaster on 09 970 9700 or www.ticketmaster.co.nz, Tickets: $18-30 (booking fees may apply)

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