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By Larry Rivera, About.com Guide to Australia / NZ Travel since 1997

Thom Pain Australian Premiere Opens in Melbourne

Wednesday July 18, 2007
The Australian premiere of Will Eno's one-hander, Thom Pain (based on nothing), goes into preview this week at the Beckett Theatre in Melbourne's CUB Malthouse. The Melbourne Theatre Company production opens on Saturday, July 21.

Eno's work, a wry monologue in which an ordinary man, Thom Pain (played by Neil Pigot), muses on childhood, yearning, disappointment and loss, premiered in 2004 in Edinburgh, Scotland, before transfering to London. In Edinburgh, the play won the coveted Fringe First Award, the Herald Angel Award and was cited by The Guardian as the best play at the Fringe. Its subsequent American premiere played to standing-room-only audiences off-Broadway for most of 2005.

Eno is a Helen Merrill Playwriting Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, an Edward F Albee Foundation Fellow and was awarded the first ever Marian Seldes/Garson Kanin Fellowship by the Theatre Hall of Fame, for which he was nominated by Edward Albee.

The actor playing Thom Pain, Neil Pigot, is a Green Room Award winner and has previously appeared in Melbourne Theatre Company's A Single Act, Dinner, Fred and Medea.
Photo: Neil Pigot as Thom Pain, courtesy Melbourne Theatre Company

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