Sydney Theatre Company: HOUSEWORK
7 September @ 7:30 pm - 9:40 pm AEST
Playwright Emily Steel and director Shannon Rush pull back the curtain on the real Parliament House in this bold, black comedy hailed an “undeniably Australian and gloriously uncompromising” (The Conversation) future classic.
Brought to brilliant life by some of Australia’s most beloved comic actors, Housework follows a group of political dynamos through the backstabbing and backroom deals of a high-stakes sitting week in Canberra, whilst balancing family crises just as frantic.
With Susie Youssef (Deadloch, The Project) as first-time MP Ruth Mandour, Emily Taheny (Mad as Hell) as her overworked Chief of Staff and iconic media polymath Indira Naidoo as… well, you’ll see, this is Aussie political satire at its very best.
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