the haunting of daniel gartrell

ELLIS PRODUCTIONS in association with Peter Marks presents
a STRAIGHTJACKET PRODUCTION of



featuring: John Wood, Samuel Johnson & Marcella Russo

... a different journey than the one you imagined ...

directed by: Lucy Freeman
set design: Tanja Beer & Jacquie Holland
lighting design: Scott Allan
sound design/composer: David Ellis
special effects design: Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart

Under an ochre sky something happened at Mt. Ragged. The incident inspired celebrated bush poet Daniel Gartrell’s (John Wood) most analysed piece of verse ... a poem that’s final verse has never been published. Now an enigma, Gartrell lives as a recluse in the suburbs, his only contact is with his daughter, Sarah (Marcella Russo). Gartrell is at home, thinking very oblique thoughts when an emerging actor from Bondi, Craig Castevich (Samuel Johnson), knocks on his door. The ambitious and optimistic Castevich has been cast to play Gartrell in a biographical movie, and in his research for the role, is ready for anything ... or so he thinks. Castevich is metaphorically plonked in the drivers seat of a car and sent screaming over a hill on the wrong side of the road with absolutely no control of the steering wheel. The Haunting of Daniel Gartrell by Reg Cribb is a humourous, thought provoking and quintessentially Australian story that presents a different journey than the one you imagined.