Puntila/Matti | MKA & Doppelgangster

WORLD PREMIERE

Mr Jack Puntila is a logger. He owns polar bear rugs, rugby league teams, media empires, ex-wives, cigars, and an oil spill that spells out the words ‘foul, destructive, and fading patriarchy’. Matti Flint is Puntila’s right hand manservant – or he’s an uber driver that hasn’t closed the ride yet – ever attentive to Puntila’s disgusting, sinful, and/or phantasmagoric barbarism… Oh and Matti falls in love with Puntila’s daughter Eva ‘The Sawdust Princess’ Puntila and she with him, but don’t lose sight of the $$$$$$$.

Puntila/Matti is a troubling, terrifying, and entertaining performance work responding to class, conflict, and changing technologies. Set between whisky-soaked limo rides, on the set of a Bachelorette-style show called ‘Eligibility’, and in shady world-leader meetings in underground car-parks, Puntila/Matti is satirical, anti-capitalist, and every bit as funny as it is bleak.

Concept & Direction Tobias Manderson-Galvin & Dr Tom Payne; Dramaturgy Dr Tom Payne; Visual Design Antoinette Barboutis; Composition Jules Pascoe, Photography Wilson Liew

With Tobias Manderson-Galvin, Antoinette Barboutis + Grace Lauer.

Doppelgangster Co-Director Dr. Tom Payne talks about the company’s extraordinary new show Puntila/Matti  "...We're trying to find a new way. I tentatively term it theatre-specific theatre. It’s basically like site-specific theatre, but there are fewer distractions and it’s a bit warmer..." CLICK HERE FOR MORE

KXT is on the second floor of the Kings Cross Hotel, licensed premises covered by local regulations. Under 18s must be accompanied at all times by an adult. Please report to the ground floor bar on arrival. 

Please note that due to the arrangement of the theatre and the intimacy of the space, there is a lockout policy in place on all shows at KXT. Latecomers are not permitted to enter during the performance and there are no refunds/exchanges with regards to latecomers.

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