Central West theatre company Lingua Franca has received Create NSW Projects funding to develop and adapt Tracy Sorensen’s second novel The Vitals into a full-length stage play. The development team is director Adam Deusien (Vision 20:50 an Impossible Festival, Triceratop, Blueberry Play, Highway of Lost Hearts), and playwright Ang Collins (Blueberry Play).
See the video announcement on Instagram.
They will be facilitating an extended community engagement process, ahead of Ang and the team leaping into the writing.
“Huge thanks and biggest love to Tracy’s family for trusting us with her story. We can’t wait to share it with you,” Adam and Ang said.
The project is auspiced and partnered by Arts OutWest and partnered by Local Stages at Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre. Arts OutWest has partnered with Lingua Franca on more than half a dozen new Australian theatre works in the last decade.