SHOWTIME: Your Name Means Dream with Caroline Lee & Lucy Ansell

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🎭 Your Name Means Dream
🗓️ 31 Oct to 24 Nov (Previews 27-30 Oct)
📍 Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre, St Kilda
🎟️ redstitch.net

Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre presents the Australian premiere of Your Name Means Dream, written by Oscar nominee and Obie Award-winning playwright José Rivera (The Motorcycle Diaries). Under the direction of multiple Green Room Award and Matilda Award nominee Kat Henry, this powerful two-hander opens on 26 October and will run through to 24 November.

Set in a near-future New York City, Your Name Means Dream tells the story of Aislin, an elderly woman struggling to navigate a world becoming increasingly alien to her. Her caregiver, Stacy, is perfectly toned, ageless and utterly in control. She’s also a robot. While Aislin suffers the inevitable indignities of being human, Stacy begins to question what it truly means to live and wonders what she’s missing out on.

The play brings to the forefront questions about humanity, technology, and the future of care. In a society where the line between human and machine is rapidly blurring, Rivera examines how we live, die, and form our sense of self.

Promising to deliver the powerful performances Red Stitch is known for, Your Name Means Dream features long-time ensemble member Caroline Lee alongside rising star Lucy Ansell who had her big theatre debut in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, before appearing on Australian screens in Force Of Nature: The Dry 2 and Binge Original Series Strife.

Caroline Lee
Caroline is based in Melbourne, Australia, and has worked professionally as a theatre, television, film and voice actress for over thirty years. She has worked with the Malthouse, Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare, Back to Back Theatre, Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Chamber Made Opera, MKA, Finucane and Smith, HeLD Productions, Hildegard, Playbox and La Mama, as well as developing a strong reputation for her work in one-woman shows. Caroline has received four Green Room Awards and an OAM for her work in the theatre.

Caroline has narrated over 150 audiobooks, including a number of best-selling titles, for example Big Little Lies and Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty, and The Shifting Fog and The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton. She has received three AudioFile Earphones Awards, including Best Audiobook of the Year 2021 for Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty.

Film and television appearances include a supporting cast role in The Newsreader and The Newsreader 2, a main cast role in Bogan Pride, and roles in Miss Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries, The Dressmaker, Tangle, Winners and Losers, Satisfaction, Stingers, MDA, Halifax fp, Blue Heelers, Neighbours, Holidays on the River Yarra and Dogs in Space, as well as a number of smaller film projects with independent producers.

Lucy Ansell
Lucy is an Afro-Caribbean, interdisciplinary artist working and living on unceded Wurundjeri land. She trained at the Victorian College of the Arts and graduated in 2018. Recently, she was in Robert Connolly’s The Dry 2: Force of Nature and Binge Original Series: Strife. She’s worked on many live productions across Naarm including Hour of the Wolf (dir. Matthew Sutton, Malthouse Theatre), Escaped Alone/What If If Only (dir. Anne-Louise Sarks, Melbourne Theatre Company) and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Melbourne (Michael Cassel Group). Other theatre credits include Wild Cherries (dir. Beng Oh), Patalog Theatre’s Tusk Tusk (dir. Ruby Rees) and She Is Vigilante (written by Chanella Macri and co-dir. by Krystalla Pearce and Bridget Balodis) which she later received a Green Room award for. In her own works, Lu likes to interrogate imagined constructs and explore the nexus between art and therapy particularly for historically marginalised folk.