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The Bleeding Tree

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"Girls, I think your father's dead. I knocked his knees out. I conked his head. I shot that house clown in the neck."

In a dirt-dry town in rural Australia, a shot shatters the still night. A mother and her daughters have just welcomed home the man of the house - with a crack in the shins and a bullet in the neck. The only issue now is disposing of the body.

Triggered into thrilling motion by an act of revenge, The Bleeding Tree is rude, rhythmical and irreverently funny. Imagine a murder ballad blown up for the stage, set against a deceptively deadly Aussie backdrop, with three fierce females fighting back.

With his brutal, and brutally funny, wordplay, Angus Cerini won the 2014 Griffin Award for The Bleeding Tree.

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JUSTICE IS ROUGH IN POWERFUL LOOK AT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

JASON BLAKE, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 7 AUGUST 2015

"Melbourne writer Angus Cerini's​ play, which collected the Griffin Award for New Australian Playwriting in 2014, is a short but potent piece, equal parts murder ballad and revenge thriller."

REVIEW: THE BLEEDING TREE

KEVIN JACKSON'S THEATRE DIARY, 8 AUGUST 2015

"THE BLEEDING TREE, was the 2014 Griffin Award playwrighting winner. In this production one can truly appreciate its deserving. Grotesquely beautiful. Morally cauterising. Glorious artistic daring from all. Go."

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