The Cuttaway Currawongs have spent so long at the bottom of the footy ladder, they are the laughing stock of their small coastal town. But with the arrival of two talented Marngrook cousins, things might just turn around. But not everyone’s happy. Named after the number Adam Goodes wore on his AFL guernsey, this new play by Trawlwoolway Pakana/Palawa playwright Nathan Maynard explores the physical and psychological demands faced by a football team. Co-produced with Queensland Theatre (which stages it at the Bille Brown Theatre, 11 April – 4 May) and helmed by Noongar director Isaac Drandic, 37 is sweary, sweaty, loud and brash, and examines the price of winning.

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The local footy team of this small coastal town have spent so long at the bottom of the ladder they might as well be welded to it. This year a new hope arrives: the Marngrook cousins are named after the Aboriginal game that inspired AFL, and they’re match fit to bring home the team’s first flag in forever.

This powerhouse new production manifests the physical and psychological demands that a football team faces under the Friday night lights. Set within the era of Adam Goodes’s war cry – and named for the number he immortalised – 37 asks ten actors to throw themselves into this world of blood and sweat to get at the values that drive a national obsession. Community, identity, the price of winning and the meaning of a goal: they’re all up for grabs.