End Of by Ash Flanders

Writer & Performer: Ash Flanders
Director: Stephen Nicolazzo
Lighting Designer: Nathan Burmeister
Sound Designer: Tom Backhaus

Ash Flanders is a multi award-winning writer and performer. In 2006 he and Declan Greene created queer independent theatre company Sisters Grimm and together have written countless shows including Little Mercy (STC), The Sovereign Wife (MTC Neon), Calpurnia Descending (Malthouse Theatre/STC), Lilith: The Jungle Girl (MTC), and an adaptation of Verdi’s La Traviata (Belvoir), all of which Ash also performed in.

His solo work includes the critically acclaimed cabaret works Playing to Win, Ash Flanders is Nothing, Special Victim, Meme Girls and Negative Energy Inc. As an actor he has been seen in Blackie Blackie Brown: The Traditional Owner of Death (STC / Malthouse), the solo show Buyer & Cellar (MTC), Adena Jacobs’ Hedda (Belvoir), The Temple (Malthouse), The Golden Dragon (MTC), and Psycho Beach Party (Little Ones Theatre). He can also be found online in the web series he created with Peter Paltos and David Morris, FRIENDLY. 

Later this year Sisters Grimm will present their new musical adaptation of The Sovereign Wife at Sydney’s Hayes Theatre with music and lyrics by Australian icon Casey Bennetto.

'Flanders' performance is almost annoyingly magnetic and his writing is sharp in a way that makes the later warmth of the story all the more cutting.' - Jinghua Qian, Witness Performance

'End Of threads a handful of decidedly unheroic stories into a piece which is more dramatic monologue than monodrama, but still nods (respectfully) t an Aussie tradition that dates back to Jack Hibberd's A Stretch of the imagination, at the turn of the 1970s, and beyond.' - Chris Boyd, The Age

'End Of proves that homegrown Ash Flanders is one of our most outstanding, versatile actors.' - Dr Cheryl Threadgold OAM, Melbourne Observer