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| Duncan Ley is one of Canberras leading theatrical practitioners, having worked in professional and amateur theatre for over 15 years. As a playwright, Mr. Ley's plays include: The Burning, When in Rome, In Cold Light, For All Our Sins, The Ides of March, Final Passages, Play Me Softly, Pillock for the Defence, The Suspect, Last Drinks. His plays The Burning and In Cold Light won the 2001 and 2003 Canberra Area Theatre Awards for Best Original Work of the Year and Best Play of the Year. His play In Cold Light is currently being made into a feature film by Peter Slee Productions, Sydney. He is an associate writer for the Motion Picture Company, Sydney. As an actor, Mr. Ley has appeared in over fifty stage productions and won numerous acting awards. He is also co-producer and artistic director of New Century Productions, for which he recently directed the critically acclaimed and award-winning production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. |
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Drama
Full-length, 140-160 minutes
2 females, 11 males (9-18 actors possible: exactly 2 females, 7-16 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
It is Germany in the early 1600s, when persecutions of heresy and witchcraft threaten to engulf the whole of Europe in their fury. A young lawyer finds himself locked in a deadly battle against one of the most feared Inquisitors of the age. As his life and the lives of those he loves increasingly hang in the balance, he turns to his father for assistance. But how can a father help his son when he too is behind the largest witch hunt the world has ever seen?
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| "Without pandering to cliche, this has to be one of the best pieces of theatre in recent memory...the writing is exceptional, powerful... I cannot recall an audience so moved, so stunned by the time the curtain fell... Go see The Burning. You'll know what I mean." |
| --Rod Quinn, ABC Radio |
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