The Wrong Gods

ABOUT THE SHOW

Deep in a remote Indian valley lives Nirmala, a steadfast traditionalist, and her daughter Isha, who dreams of leaving the village to study and become a scientist. When a stranger arrives promising progress and an offer too good to be true, the choices they make will shape the fate of their family – and thousands of others.

Following the overwhelming acclaim of his epic works Counting and Cracking and The Jungle and the Sea, Australian playwright S. Shakthidharan returns with an intimate, compelling story of a mother and daughter divided by their visions of the future.

Critics have praised the ‘absorbing drama’ (The Guardian) as ‘quietly moving and disarmingly powerful’ (The Sydney Morning Herald), a tale rich with hope, betrayal and the tension between tradition and modernity.

If everything in this world comes at a cost, who gets to decide what that cost will be?

Co-producer
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Presented with

Wheelchair Accessible
Hearing Assistance
Audio Described
Tactile Tour
Open Captioning
Closed Captioning
Auslan Interpreted

Performance Type	Performance Date(s)
Audio Described Vision Australia	Saturday 28 June at 2pm Tuesday 1 July at 6.30pm
Tactile Tour at venue	Saturday 28 June at 2pm (Tactile tour commences at 1pm)
Open Captioning via screen	Saturday 5 July at 2pm
Closed Captioning via GoTheatrical App	Saturday 5 July at 2pm
Auslan Interpreted	Tuesday 8 July at 6.30pm

Nigel Poulton

Movement & Fight Director, Intimacy Coordinator

Nigel Poulton is an award-winning movement director, fight and intimacy coordinator, SAG-AFTRA/MEAA stunt performer and actor with over 25 years of professional experience. Nigel’s choreography credits include Finnish National Ballet, The Australian Ballet, New York City Ballet, The Metropolitan Opera, Sydney Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare, Washington Opera Company, Opera Australia, Circus Oz, Melbourne Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre, Belvoir, La Boite and Kooemba Jdarra. Nigel’s film and television work includes Deadlock, Nautilus, Poker Face, Thor: Love and Thunder, Escape from Spiderhead, Ding Dong You’re Gay, Occupation 2, Pirates of the Caribbean V, Deadline Gallipoli, The Water Diviner, The Bourne Legacy, Vikingdom and Winter’s Tale. Nigel is a certified Intimacy Director/Coordinator with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators and has been awarded Fight Master status with the Society of American Fight Directors. Nigel is also a certified Fight Director and past President of the Society of Australian Fight Directors Inc and an Honorary Fight Director with Fight Directors Canada.

Current as of March 2023.

ABOUT THE SHOW

Cast & Creative

Manali Datar

Devi

Nadie Kammallaweera

Nirmala

Radhika Mudaliyar

Isha

Vaishnavi Suryaprakash

Lakshmi

S. Shakthidharan

Writer & Co-Director

Hannah Goodwin

Co-Director

Keerthi Subramanyam

Set & Costume Designer

Amelia Lever-Davidson

Lighting Designer

Sabyasachi (Rahul) Bhattacharya

Composer

Steve Francis

Sound Designer

Nigel Poulton

Movement & Fight Director, Intimacy Coordinator

Laura Farrell

Vocal Coach

Madeleine Picard

Associate Sound Designer

Manali Datar

Devi

Nadie Kammallaweera

Nirmala

Radhika Mudaliyar

Isha

Vaishnavi Suryaprakash

Lakshmi

S. Shakthidharan

Writer & Co-Director

Hannah Goodwin

Co-Director

Keerthi Subramanyam

Set & Costume Designer

Amelia Lever-Davidson

Lighting Designer

Sabyasachi (Rahul) Bhattacharya

Composer

Steve Francis

Sound Designer

Nigel Poulton

Movement & Fight Director, Intimacy Coordinator

Laura Farrell

Vocal Coach

Madeleine Picard

Associate Sound Designer

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