The Platypus is a strange creature. It’s composed of odds and ends, as though evolution got tired one afternoon and stopped paying attention to what it was doing. It seems wrong, strangely put together, a curiosity — just like this play about the messy end of a relationship.

Written and directed by well-known actor Francis Greenslade (Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell, Winners and Losers) and performed by John Leary (The Good Place, Glitch, The Letdown, Upper Middle Bogan) and Rebecca Bower (The Spooky Files, Offspring, Wentworth), The Platypus is a genre-busting delight — an outrageously clever, wildly entertaining play about theatre, relationships, and the roles we all play.

Says Francis, “There’s a bit of Shakespeare, a bit of Oscar Wilde and even some Sondheim-inspired musical theatre… It reflects the struggles of a very recognisable family, with plenty of easter eggs for theatre nerds thrown in”.