About the show
It’s summer 1967. Three families head away to the coast. One of them is running out of time.
As a school production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream closes the year, three families escape to the coast, each carrying something they can’t quite name. When a storm breaks, the holiday shifts course: class tensions surface, private griefs collide, and small acts of kindness begin to chart a path toward the light. For this special 40th anniversary production of Australia’s most produced play, Rachael Maza brings a First Nations perspective to Away for the first time – exploring belonging, healing, and the enduring memory of land and sea.
Beloved, funny, devastating, and newly alive. The anniversary production not to be missed.
Rachael Maza AM is an Yidinji and Meriam woman and was Artistic Director of ILBIJERRI Theatre Company for 18 years until 2025. Her directing credits span landmark works for stage and screen, including Jack Charles V The Crown, Which Way Home and Big Name, No Blankets. A Member of the Order of Australia, she is the recipient of the Australia Council Award for Theatre, a Sydney Theatre Award, Green Room Award, and an Honorary Doctorate of Performing Arts from Edith Cowan University. She is Co-Chair of Creative Australia’s First Nations Board.
– Rachael Maza AM
To be advised.
Subject to change during the development of a production.
The Company
Principal Cast (in order of appearance)
Director: Rachael Maza AM*
Costume Designer: Adithi Iyer
Lighting Designer: Shevon McCormack-Edwards
Set & Props Designer: Joey McKenzie
Sound Designer: Max Bradley
Production Stage Manager: Bella Muslado
Stage Manager: Aiden Carter
Key
*Guest Artist
** NIDA Staff