SHOW CASE SATURDAY 02 APRIL
FREE
7 emerging writers have spent 2021 developing new plays in The Laboratory with mentor Saro Lusty-Cavallari. In 2022 these plays are about to receive a week of development and dramaturgical support ahead of a directed reading of three select works on Saturday 2 April. Sessions commence at 4:00pm.
Grab your free tickets and pop in to see the first readings of:
4.00 - 5.30 pm: Daddy Developed A Pill by Cassie Hamilton director LJ Wilson
6.00 - 7.30 pm: The Gospel According To Mal by Bryce Bofinger director Saro Lusty-Cavallari
7.30 - 9.00 pm: Come Again by Alex Tutton dircetor Saro Lusty-Cavallari
the 2021 / 2022 Laboratory Writers Alex Tutton, Bryce Bofinger, Cassie Hamilton, Lara Balkan, Meg Goodfellow, Robbi Wardhaugh, Shahrin Shamim
Presented by bAKEHOUSE and Montague Basement; Directed and mentored by Saro Lusty-Cavallari
a KXT Artist Support Program
4.00 - 5.30 pm:
Daddy Developed A Pill
by Cassie Hamilton
director LJ Wilson
Cynthia’s Daddy developed a pill that made her family very rich. Twenty years later, Cynthia has become the Daddy’s girl, girlboss she was always destined to be. It’s the launch party for her new pill, and all of Daddy’s friends are in attendance (and Daddy himself is definitely on his way!) Her pill is set to take the wellness industry by storm, with its ability to induce life-changing introspection. But Cynthia’s pill has a secret, one that she has kept from her bocce loving best friend. A side-effect her poppers-puffing step-mummy couldn’t get a whiff of. Not even Bumblesnorts Tabatha, the MOST important person at this party, knows the power of Cynthia’s pill. But they’re about to, because tonight, she’s giving a demonstration...
In a world of pegging, prolapses, and needing to piss, Daddy Developed A Pill is a surrealist farce set over one chaotic night of deviance and debauchery. A line-up of sixteen psychotic characters portrayed by only three actors means fast wit with even faster quick changes against a backdrop of an upper-middle-class identity crisis with mortal stakes. It’s Don’s Party meets Euphoria, meets an Apple keynote. Come for the gender fuckery, stay for your dying need to impress Daddy and finally be his good little girl.
6.00 - 7.30 pm:
The Gospel According To Mal
by Bryce Bofinger
director Saro Lusty-Cavallari
Pastor Mal has had one dream since sixteen. To spread the Good News beyond the rusted Hills Hoists of his small town. So, when America’s biggest televangelist offers to mentor him, Mal takes this as a sign from God.
He couldn’t be further from the truth.
Inspired by the works of Goethe and Dostoevsky, The Gospel According to Mal is magical realism at its most hilarious and cutting. Drifting between iconoclastic dreams, eerie boardrooms, and crowded mega-church halls, Mal’s gospel grapples with the meaning of suffering in a world where money is God and God makes money.
7.30 - 9.00 pm:
Come Again
by Alex Tutton
director Saro Lusty-Cavallari
Sal has it all: a decent job, a loving partner, a cop that’s hounding her and a boyfriend that’s been missing for the last five years. It’s not all great, but she’s got it covered, okay? Sal’s all over it.
Until she isn’t.
Juggling baby plans and interrogations, Sal is pulled back and forth through time. Being yanked and heaved from inseminations to fry pans, from field hockey to biohazardous dairy. Turns out you can have your yoghurt and eat it too.
The past and present collide in Come Again. Not quite a farce, not quite a tragedy, Come Again is a singular and whip-smart black comedy, bringing an unhinged, balls-to-the wall energy that is missing from the Australian stage. This is a show that grabs us by the throat and forces us to witness what happens when the past refuses to die.