Synopsis
The Blind Giant Is Dancing
Published by Currency Press
Large Mixed Cast
Brutality in the workplace, rage in the streets, seething in the home
The vulnerability of political parties when they've forgotten why they're there
The intellectual torpor of modern Australia
How power corrupts
The Blind Giant is Dancing is an angry and tender depiction of an idealist, Allen Fitzgerald, who becomes so embroiled in a party power struggle that he loses sight of what's at stake
When it premiered in 1983, The Blind Giant is Dancing felt like a sharp slap in the face
Now, in an age of ICAC, Union credit cards, speculative housing bubbles, a pulverised working class and vapid leadership in the 21st century, this Australian classic has lost none of its brute force
CAST
M10,F5 (doubling possible)