

Production still for "Journal of the Plague Year". L-R: Ross Williams, Julie Forsyth, Robert Menzies, Lucy Taylor, Marta Dusseldorp. Photographer: Lisa Tomasetti
Journal of the Plague Year
By Tom Wright
11 April 2005 – 08 May 2005 Merlyn Theatre
After the story of the same name by Daniel Defoe
Malthouse Theatre,
New Adaptation Theatre
A great city, struck down by the plague. Men, women and children drop like flies while the King and Queen flee and hide in the countryside. Is this just a passing horror? Or has history come to an end? Based on the work of Daniel Defoe.
The play is structured as a series of tableaux covering 12 months in the plague-infested London of 1665, and features Robert Menzies as Defoe, guiding us through a society whose external sickness is mirrored by an internal decay. The rest of the ensemble take on multiple roles as denizens of this Dante-esque world.
Journal of the Plague Year inaugurated Malthouse Theatre’s first season since its transformation from Playbox.
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