Strangers in Between

Strangers in Between is a two-act Australian play by Tommy Murphy. It won the $15,000 2006 NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Best Play. It was first staged at Sydney's Griffin Theatre Company in February 2005, where it broke box office records.

It is published by Currency Press with Murphy's stage adaptation of Timothy Conigrave's Holding the Man.

Strangers in Between explores brotherhood. Shane flees his family in regional Goulburn and finds himself in Sydney's Kings Cross. He attempts to build a surrogate family in the city. He confuses the two families. The city lover he worships is doubled and morphed with the brother he fears. Peter, an older man who is dealing with the imminent death of his elderly mother, is himself rendered maternal by the needs of runaway Shane.

A reviewer of the first UK performance wrote that:

Tommy Murphy’s Strangers In Between is one of the most beautifully written, achingly honest, and devastating insights into the life of a person growing up in a world that refuses to understand who that person truly is. Full of hope, raucous ribaldry, and sweet, tender moments of connection between disparate souls who eventually form a family,... It is wrapped in love, acceptance and understanding. Absolutely unmissable.

Griffin Theatre Company at the SBW Stables Theatre, Sydney, Australia.
17 February – 12 March 2005

Director: David Berthold
Designer: Alice Babidge
Lighting: Anthony Pearson

Shane - Sam Dunn
Peter - Anthony Phelan
Will/Ben - Brett Stiller

27 - 31 May 2008 Riverside Theatre Parramatta (part of a national tour)

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