Merlynn Tong

Congratulations, Get Rich! is the title. Commiserations, very poor, is the outcome. This show is cold and unyielding even when subjected to the fire of performance. Maudlin Mandy is morose. It’s the opening of her karaoke bar, Money Money Karaoke and her 38th Birthday. Her bend-over-backwards-to-please boyfriend, Xavier, has baked a cake. She berates him. She has achieved the same age as her mother when she committed suicide.

Creative genius and the artists who possess it and spend their lives striving to create lived and performed experiences of it for us to share, often nests in the elusive realm of the impossible. The Theatre takes her prisoners – theatre makers and audiences alike – where our shared memories are often littered with flaws, mishaps, errors of judgement, indulgence, and unhappily unmet expectations.

Griffin Theatre Company has unveiled its 2024 Season — including the monumental production of Louis Nowra’s The Lewis Trilogy, marking the final production to be staged at the SBW Stables Theatre before it undergoes major redevelopment works. Spanning across five decades in changing Australia, Griffin’s sentimental production of The Lewis Trilogy chronicles the arc of Lewis’ life as he ages from a teenaged boy to a young man to a local veteran of Kings Cross.