When Red Stitch premièred Tom Holloway’s Red Sky Morning a few years ago, it was clear that Australian theatre was witnessing the birth of a significant dramatic voice. Here were a series of interlinked monologues rich in poetic intensity, mixing Aussie vernacular with a haunting lyricism that sung of the earth and was rooted in a tangible sense of place.

Holloway has gone on to a stellar career both in Australia and internationally. He has also studied at The Royal Court under the British playwright Simon Stephens. So it made perfect sense for Red Stitch to commission Holloway to write a companion piece to Stephens’s tense, taut one-hander, Sea Wall. This densely packed thirty-minute monologue premièred in London in 2008 and has been frequently revived, often as part of a double bill. This is its Australian première.