Tandi Wright Takes on Julia Roberts

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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 the Silo Theatre on July 29 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 assets of their late fathers. In this tense and brittle reunion, much more is at stake than who gets the house, when the brother discovers their father's sparse diary and uses it to create a story that will explain away the present and make sense of the past.

Multi award winning actress Tandi Wright returns to the stage for the role of “Nan”. 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 “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 Greenburg’s stock in the industry rose, so did the demand from both audiences and actors to get involved in the Greenburg’s urbane take on the nature of inheritance and the peril of interpreting the past.

Greenburg’s accolades include a prestigious “Best Play” Tony Award for his 2002 play Take Me Out which sold out its season at the Silo theatre in 2006. Other awards include the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Oppenheimer Award, PEN/Laura Pels Award. Three Days of Rain also earned Greenburg a Pulitzer Prize Finalist.

Glen Drake (The Talented Mr. Ripley) and Eryn Wilson (Outrageous Fortune and The Tutor) join Tandi Wright on stage for the NZ premiere of this timeless love story. Led by Silo artistic 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 Magazine, New York

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 (booking fees may apply)

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