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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Green Park
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'You’ve walked past it. Maybe through it. Down the end of Victoria Street, opposite St Vincent’s Hospital—Green Park. It’s picturesque by day, a little eerie by night. And it’s where Warren and Edden are meeting, as a prelude to their Grindr hook up.

'One of them doesn’t look like his photo. There’s an age gap between them (but what’s a decade or three?). And one is harbouring a dangerous secret. In an hour’s time, both will leave the park profoundly transformed.

'Google Maps lists Green Park as “Good for Kids”. But just a few decades ago, that definitely wasn’t the case. For decades, the Wall opposite the park was where rent boys plied their trade for curb-crawling Johns. The public toilet was a spot for secret all-hours hook ups. When the cops dismantled it, in 1988, a cabal of drag queen nuns—the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence—built a shrine to a chunk of its urinal. These details are becoming lost to time. But in Green Park, Warren and Edden will be pushed together—and apart—by forces of Sydney’s history that neither of them can comprehend.

'In 2021, Griffin is leaving its home at the SBW Stables and wandering down the road to the real Green Park. Outside the rotunda, audience members will be outfitted with a set of headphones. And together, they will eavesdrop on playwright Elias Jamieson Brown’s finely wrought Darlinghurst noir. To everyone else, the two men talking on a bench might not look like much. But in the gloom of the setting sun, you’ll experience a dangerous psycho-sexual collision… in a very public place.'

Source: Griffin Theatre Company.

Production Details

  • Produced by Griffin Theatre Company, 5 February - 6 March 2021.

    Presented in Green Park, Sydney, to an audience outfitted with headphones.

    Director: Declan Greene.

    Dramaturg: Declan Greene.


    Presented by Griffin Theatre Company as part of Sydney Festival, in Green Park, 19 - 30 January 2022.

    Director & Dramaturg: Declan Green.

    Designer: Emma White.

    Composer & Sound Designer: David Bergman.

    Cast: Joseph Althouse and Steve Le Marquand.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 2021
    • Strawberry Hills, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency Press , 2021 .
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      Extent: 56p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 4th February 2021.
      ISBN: 9781760627041

Works about this Work

Spotlight : Elias Jamieson Brown Bridget Cormack (interviewer), 2021 single work interview
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6 February 2021; (p. 3)
Spotlight : Elias Jamieson Brown Bridget Cormack (interviewer), 2021 single work interview
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6 February 2021; (p. 3)
Last amended 30 Nov 2021 11:39:40
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  • Darlinghurst, Kings Cross area, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,
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  • Darlinghurst, Kings Cross area, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,
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