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...Here, under Armfield's gentle, bespectacled gaze, Geoffrey Rush first leaped to life as Proposhkin in Gogol's Diary of a Madman and Cate Blanchett came of age as Miranda in The Tempest. It's also where Armfield dreamed up his 1998 stage adaptation of Tim Winton's novel Cloudstreet, the epic production that put his name in theatrical heaven. With 14 actors playing 40 characters over 20 years in five hours, the director's craft was stretched to breaking point. But as Armfield says, "Having set yourself up for failure is actually a great spur...
...Cloudstreet went on to acclaimed seasons in Sydney, London and New York-and planted the seed for Armfield's next artistic challenge: adapting Candy, novelist Luke Davies' 1997 elegy to young love lost to heroin. Not only was the story risky, but it was to be told in a medium he had yet to master: celluloid. While the director, 51, had toyed with filmed plays and TV dramas, "Candy was like starting again in a new form," Armfield says. Roping in some theatrical mates, including Cloudstreet production designer Robert Cousins, he set about opening up the story of doomed junkie...
...OUTBACK BARD The west coast of Australia has long drawn some of the country's greatest writers, photographers and artists. But few have captured the essence of this stark, ruggedly beautiful territory like local resident and author Tim Winton. His most famous work, Cloudstreet, begins on the Abrolhos Islands; his latest novel, Dirt Music, is set in a fictional lobster-fishing town along this coast. Tuck your guidebook into the glove compartment and go traveling with Winton. He expertly steers the reader through a landscape of contradictions as harsh and tender as the people who populate...
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