'When you’ve got the right piece, you’re in no doubt.
'All aboard for the world premiere of a dazzling new comedy from Australia’s most prolific and venerated playwright, David Williamson.
'When the Dunstan Playhouse opened in 1974, former Artistic Director, George Ogilvie commissioned Williamson to write the now legendary play The Department for State Theatre Company South Australia. Fifty years later, the master wordsmith delivers to Adelaide audiences a delicious new black comedy about marriage, desire, polyamory and parenthood set to hit those same heights.
'Married couple Mandy and Craig are bored with their (mostly) monogamous relationship. Eager to inject some vim into their vows, they book themselves in for a “lifestyle” cruise, where they meet Brian and Michele, similarly looking for some stimulation at sea…
'Meanwhile, the buttoned-up Drew and his free-spirited daughter, Cassie are just trying to reconnect on what he thought was an “art” tour!
'The keys go in the jar, the recriminations flow in the bar.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Presented by State Theatre Company of South Australia at the Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre (world premiere), 20 September - 12 October 2024.
Director: Shannon Rush.
Cast: Ahunim Abebe, Chris Asimos, and Erik Thomson.
'State Theatre South Australia celebrates 50 years of the Dunstan Playhouse with a David Williamson world premiere.'
'Playwright David Williamson has spent more than 50 years satirising the lives of the white middle-class.'
'Fun, sex, Renoir and a reckoning might be a succinct way to introduce the new play by David Williamson, The Puzzle. As Williamson noted to me in the foyer, “life would be pretty boring without sex”. However, he writes, in the production program that this comes with a proviso that licentiousness without any moral grounding can lead to human beings inadvertently “upending their lives”.' (Introduction)
'Fun, sex, Renoir and a reckoning might be a succinct way to introduce the new play by David Williamson, The Puzzle. As Williamson noted to me in the foyer, “life would be pretty boring without sex”. However, he writes, in the production program that this comes with a proviso that licentiousness without any moral grounding can lead to human beings inadvertently “upending their lives”.' (Introduction)
'Playwright David Williamson has spent more than 50 years satirising the lives of the white middle-class.'
'State Theatre South Australia celebrates 50 years of the Dunstan Playhouse with a David Williamson world premiere.'