Overview
Aaron Sorkin’s cinematic smash returns to the stage
Long before Hollywood, this sizzling legal drama from the masterful Aaron Sorkin dominated Broadway, and now court is in session in the Playhouse for QPAC’s 40th Birthday celebrations.
One misfit US Marine is dead, two others stand accused of killing him, and the whole corps is on trial as a team of young military lawyers uncover a sinister conspiracy in this gripping judicial thriller.
Inspired by actual events at Guantánamo Bay in 1986, this “brilliant, intelligent, cutting, shivering and even nasty script” (The Independent) sparkles with the signature quickfire repartee of Sorkin’s screen hits The West Wing, The Newsroom and The Social Network.
Turning a spotlight on the toxic internal culture of the United States military, A Few Good Men interrogates the idea that instilling unquestioning loyalty in a soldier has dark and terrible consequences, and that patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Helmed by three-time Matilda Award-winning director Daniel Evans, a cast of rising stars go head-to-head with a swathe of stage legends in this courtroom tour-de-force.
Can you handle the truth?
Enormously entertaining.
Creatives
- Director Daniel Evans
- Set and Costume Designer Simone Romaniuk
- Lighting Designer Ben Hughes
- Composer and Sound Designer Mike Willmett
- Assistant Director Christen O’Leary
- Fight, Choreography and Intimacy Director Nigel Poulton
- Voice and Dialect Coach Gabrielle Rogers
- Military Consultant James Francis
- Stage Manager Yanni Dubler
- Assistant Stage Manager Maddison Penglis
- Stage Management Secondment (QUT) Carys Walsh
- Rehearsal Observation Indiah Morris
Cast
- Pfc. William T. Santiago Sami Afuni
- Cpl. Jeffrey Owen Howard / M.P. / Lawyer Chris Alosio
- Capt. Julius Alexander Randolph Jimi Bani
- Lt. Jack Ross / Cpl. Hammaker Jack Bannister
- Lt. Cmdr. Joanne Galloway Courtney Cavallaro
- Lt. j.g. Sam Weinberg Doron Chester
- Capt. Isaac Whitaker / Cmdr. Walter Stone / Cpl. Dunn Todd MacDonald
- Pfc. Louden Downey Reagan Mannix
- Lance Cpl. Harold W. Dawson Donné Ngabo
- Capt. Matthew A. Markinson Hugh Parker
- Lt. j.g. Daniel A. Kaffee George Pullar
- Lt. Col. Nathan Jessep Hayden Spencer
- Lt. Jonathan James Kendrick / Lawyer Jeremiah Wray
- Cover Rowan Chapman
- Cover Jack Mahoney
- Cover Sarah Ann McLeod
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