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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Good Cook. Friendly. Clean
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'Where do you go when you don’t have a home?

'Coming home one night, Sandra learns she has two weeks to move out. It’s nothing personal, her housemates just have a friend who needs somewhere to stay. No choice but to pack up and find another sharehouse. But Sandra is in her 50s. And affordable places are hard to find in the ruthless Sydney rental market. In one interview after another, she contorts herself into the shape of what she thinks people want in a housemate. But with each rejection she becomes increasingly desperate, losing control of her life in frighteningly simple ways.

'Brooke Robinson has written an unflinching examination of homelessness, asking how willing we are, as a society, to take care of our most vulnerable. As the housing crisis worsens, what happens to people like Sandra – to those who don’t own a home, who are getting older and don’t have family to fall back on?

'Funny until it’s not, Good Cook. Friendly. Clean. is a devastating portrait of someone slipping through the cracks. It’s not a comfortable play—it’s a critical one. And under the direction of Marion Potts, looking away is not an option.'

Source: Griffin Theatre 2018 season.

Production Details

  • Produced by Griffin Theatre Company, Darlinghurst, from 4 May to 16 June 2018.

    Director: Marion Potts.

    Designer: Melanie Liertz.

    Lighting Designer: Alexander Berlage.

    Sound Designer & Composer: Nate Edmondson.

    Stage Manager: Khym Scott.

    With Fayssal Bazzi, Tara Morice, and Kelly Paterniti.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Strawberry Hills, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency Press , 2018 .
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      Extent: 56p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 1st May 2018
      ISBN: 9781760622077
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