Brisbane-based playwright Stephen Carleton set his new play where his own story began – in Darwin. It’s 2001 and Russell and his boyfriend Alistair run The Tectonic Plate. It’s a hip cafe and art gallery by day, a queer cabaret dive by night.
Russell didn’t know his biological parents, or his adoptive mother, who disappeared when he was eight. Yet when a number of events shake things up, he begins to uncover his past, shifting back in time to bohemian 1970s Darwin and 1960s Papua New Guinea.
Directed by Ian Lawson, the play mixes wry humour, a hint of Tennessee Williams and a killer 60s and 70s soundtrack, to tell an affecting story about family, identity, and Australian history.
Type of Event: Theatre
Venue: Billie Brown Studio
78 Montague Rd
South Brisbane QLD 4101
Date: from 6 to 16 April 2016
Price: from $27.50
Website: Queensland Theatre Company
Telephone: (07) 3010 7600
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