The Boy Castaways, starring Paul Capsis, is set to feature at the upcoming Melbourne Festival. The first feature film of ex-Malthouse Theatre creative director Michael Kantor was shot on location at Her Majesty’s Theatre in Adelaide and features Australian stars Tim Rogers, Mark Leonard Winter and Megan Washington alongside Capsis.
The Boy Castaways sees four drifters lured into a vast playhouse, deep in the heart of the city. Taken in hand by the enigmatic leading lady, the men are plunged ever deeper into a labyrinth of jealousy, betrayal, violence and sex, dissolving the lines between desire and death. The film promises to be a unique and electrifying piece of metaphysical Australian cinema.
Accompanying the release of the movie will be a one-off performance at the Forum Theatre on Tuesday 15 October. In Songs of Wreck and Ruin, three stars of The Boy Castaways – Tim Rogers, Megan Washington and Paul Capsis – perform the songs featured in Michael Kantor’s beguiling film: anthems that call out to us to walk on the wild side, love hard and remain forever young, including tunes from the likes of the Buzzcocks, Fleetwood Mac, The Psychedelic Furs and The Waterboys.
Capsis, who plays a gender-bending performer, told music.com.au that his character is “not really a drag queen, as such, but, rather, a character that explores femininity, not just the surface experience. It’s a deeper layered, more ambiguous thing.”
For tickets to the one-off show Songs of Wreck and Ruin as part of the Melbourne Festival visit www.melbournefestival.com.au.