WRITTEN / ADAPTED BY RALPH REMERS
DIRECTED BY MARCUS COENEN
‘Calamus’ explores how far we’re willing to go in our search for identity, love, and acceptance when faced with seemingly insurmountable criticism. Do we stay true to who we are or adjust to society’s view on gender and sexuality?
‘Calamus’ brings Anton Chekhov’s classic ‘The Seagull’ (1896) together with the beauty of Walter Whitman’s ‘Calamus’ poems, which appeared in his famous collection ‘Leaves of Grass’ (1855). The ‘Calamus’ poems celebrated male companionship in its many forms and presented us with a loving, erotic Utopia of comrades and lovers, free from oppression.

Padraig Turley
(Archibald)

Ann Morgan
(Margaret Baugh)

Ken Kitchen
(Eugene Woodward)

Ralph Remers
(Anthony Woodward)

Anna Anning
(Rose Woodward)

Keith Day
(Gregory Scott)

Lara Coret
(Virginia Baugh)

Hugh Mackay
(Robert Baugh)

Robert Jan Peters
(Stanley)

Padraig Turley
(Archibald)

Ralph Remers
(Anthony Woodward)

Lara Coret
(Virginia Baugh)

Ann Morgan
(Margaret Baugh)

Anna Anning
(Rose Woodward)

Hugh Mackay
(Robert Baugh)

Ken Kitchen
(Eugene Woodward)

Keith Day
(Gregory Scott)

Robert Jan Peters
(Stanley)