Two of award-winning Sven Swenson’s best loved works retake the stage in this special double-billing.

Heavenly Bodies
With Regan Lynch, Sam Ryan

‘Cutty’ is deeply in love. His pregnant wife Ruby is the only girl he’s ever held in his arms and in a perfect world, that’s the way Cutty would keep it for all time. But in Singapore, 1942, the world is far from perfect. Cutty, who has never yet fired a rifle, is granted a short furlough. With Singapore falling, he knows the time is given to taste a life expected to be cut short. In a makeshift bordello, he finds Laidie. As bombs ravage the world outside, these two frightened compatriots forge a profound bond of acceptance and compassion.

Beautiful Souls
With Casey Woods, Peter Norton and Zachary Boulton

Bethany is a dare-devil. She has always looked for and found ways to subvert the middle-class sensibilities of her conservative up-bringing. She challenges herself to show courage and strength and never to shrink from a truth or dare.

There were two imperatives set down for David’s trip to Asia: to place a photograph on a war grave and to take good care of his intellectually disabled brother, Justin. He has achieved neither. Now, as the three fellow-travellers await execution in a Thai prison for drug-smuggling, their need to come to terms with one another and themselves, is a race against time.