Radiance

Radiance By Louis Nowra | Directed by Leah Purcell 3 January – 8 February, Upstairs Theatre Tickets from $39, Available to buy at belvoir.com.au It's barely January and already we might have some of the year’s best theatre in Radiance says The Daily Telegraph - Devastating yet optimistic, funny yet sad, it’s an immensely moving experience. Don't this mighty Australian classic. Louis Nowra’s Radiance is an exuberant black sabbath for three great Indigenous dames. It begins conventionally enough: Mae, Nona and Cressy gather at the old Queenslander in the tropics for Mum’s funeral. But these three sisters are forces of nature, and they haven’t been in the same room for years, and years. It isn’t long before that old house can’t contain the joy and pain of them all being together again…