“Oh my God … that’s me!” David Wenham stops in his tracks, eyes wide, as we walk past the hoardings around the construction site that used to be the Stables theatre in Darlinghurst. They’re decorated with giant production photos from the theatre’s illustrious past: a very young Cate Blanchett; the late Penny Cook; John Bell in full flight … and a 25-year-old Wenham violently squeezing fellow actor David Field’s head.
Wenham’s playing of a violent ex-con in The Boys launched his career. The play, based on the 1986 rape and murder of Anita Cobby, had audiences queueing around the block in 1991.
