Dates: August/Sept 2025

Company: Black Swan

Role: Actor (Pete, Nick, John)

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About​​

My first show back on stage after 10 years of working primarily as a director. Being directed by the brilliant and very playful Humphrey Bower was a great treat and we were​ lucky enough to have playwright Andrew Bovell​​ in the room with us for a week, sharing his wisdom about the play and helping us go deeper in the roles.

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Having seen the play twenty years ago, I knew that the successful doubling (or in my case the tripling) of roles was a core challenge in making the work sing for an audience. So one of the primary goals I set for myself was to sharply define and deeply inhabit my three separate humans. The story itself could be deliciously ambiguous but I was determined that no one would be confused about who I was. It was very affirming to have the responses below.

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Responses

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Matt Edgerton does an incredible job taking on the various roles required of him throughout the performance. He skilfully transitions between the characters of Pete, Nick and John with the assistance of body language, a cap or glasses. He inhabits the various characters and engages and draws the audience into the complex narrative.

Craig Dalglish, Australian Arts Review

Matt Edgerton has more characters than anyone else, playing three contrasting and obscure people. The differences between his characters were so profound that I could easily have been convinced they were being played by different actors had it not been such a small cast. His pitiful insecurity as Pete came across so differently to the subdued anger of John, different again to the manic drunkenness of Nick.

Magazine 6000

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The cast of four who are all WA actors, were a superb ensemble and the stand out performance should go to Matt Edgerton for his seamless shape shifting of his 3 characters in which he was able to delineate so well. They all felt so distinct, real and I especially loved his portrayal of the character of Nick in which he uncovered great depth. 

What’s the show, Natalie Rees

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