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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 End of
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'There’s no crueler thing you can say to an actor than ‘Don’t quit your day job’. Fortunately, thanks to cover bands and theatre restaurants, Ash Flanders never needed one. But after years of glittering appearances on stages and in school gyms across the country, Ash unceremoniously finds himself seated at a computer terminal in a decidedly un-sparkly corporate office. No longer an acclaimed playwright and performer, Ash is now a legal transcriptionist—typing the words of suspected criminals who are not nearly as fascinating as TV suggested.

'As Ash painstakingly types out the narratives of petty crims, he begins to interrogate his own poor choices. That thing he did in an abandoned carpark. The visit to the horse knackery. Those people at the old folks home. All of it in service of one thing: making people laugh.

'But as his own transcript unravels, Ash realises it’s about making her laugh. His toughest audience. A heavy-drinking, chain-smoking behemoth named Heather Flanders. And her health is getting so dire it’s, well… laughable.'

Source: Griffin.

Production Details

  • Presented by Griffin Theatre Company, 13 - 29 October 2022.

    Director: Stephen Nicolazzo.

    Designer: Nathan Burmeister.

    Lighting Designer: Rachel Burke.

    Sound Designer: Tom Backhaus.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 2022
    • Strawberry Hills, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency Press , 2022 .
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      Extent: 50p.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Published 12 October 2020
      ISBN: 9781760627867

Works about this Work

Theatre Review : End of Michael Balfour , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , October 2022;

— Review of End of Ash Flanders , 2022 single work drama

'A funny-sad monologue about jobs and family, ageing and mortality.'

Theatre Review : End of Michael Balfour , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , October 2022;

— Review of End of Ash Flanders , 2022 single work drama

'A funny-sad monologue about jobs and family, ageing and mortality.'

Last amended 22 Feb 2023 11:42:24
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