Of Mice and Men is currently running at Sydney’s Opera Theatre.
Holidaymakers heading off on cheap flights to Sydney in the coming weeks will be just in time to catch a classic play.
Up until August 11th, the city’s Opera Theatre will play host to an opera based on John Steinbeck’s classic work Of Mice and Men.
Director Bruce Beresford utilises the talent of Anthony Dean Griffey and Barry Ryan, who take on the roles of Lennie and George respectively.
Composer Carlisle Floyd has also contributed to the show, providing words and music, which has been lauded as “full of humanity”.
“Hear it and you understand why Carlisle Floyd is one of America’s most revered composers,” claimed the Opera Theatre’s promotional materials for Of Mice and Men.
The John Steinbeck novella, on which the show is based, tells the story of migrant farmhands George and Lenny, whose dreams of buying a farm are confounded by a series of unfortunate events and exacerbated by Lennie’s child-like intellect.
Written by Erin Marshall
