'Cliff’s life is in the toilet: he’s lost his wife, his job, and he’s back living in Bundaberg. Struggling to reconcile with his daughter (and his mother), Cliff navigates family dramas, local politics, and a potential murder case … all without a car.
'Elliott’s doing alright: she’s finishing Year 12, looking after her grandmother, and running the family newsagent … until her estranged father turns up out of the blue, the mayor turns up dead, and the papers don’t turn up at all.
'Of all the rum joints in all the world, it had to happen in Bundy.
'Combining a suspicious death, strained family relationships, generational change, and a reckoning of what being Australian actually means – Death in a Statesman is funny, smart, and wears the hell out of a fedora.' (Publication summary)
Death in a Statesman was first produced by debase, at the Judith Wright Arts Centre, Brisbane on November 8-12 November, 2022.
Written by Robert Kronk
Directed by Bridget Boyle
Cast: Helen Cassidy, Peter Cossar, Allen Laverty, Emily Liu, Kate Wilson and Anna Yen
Dramaturgy and story development: Anna Yen
Designer: Ella Lincoln
Lighting design: Glenn Hughes
Sound design: Emma Burchell
Death in a Statesman has been developed with regular debase collaborator Allen Laverty.
