Housework single work   drama  
Issue Details: First known date: 2025... 2025 Housework
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'How’d I get so wise? I watched my dreams die. And then I kept going.

'Kelly Sheppard, a naive but excited junior staffer in the Electorate Office of Ruth Mandour, a first-term Member of Parliament, unexpectedly gets the chance to travel to Canberra with the passionate MP she idolises and Ruth’s brilliant-but­ exhausted Chief of Staff, Anna Cooper. Anna’s juggling Ruth’s new policy launch, a husband who can’t deal with their kid in her absence and the type of muffins the Member requires for a meeting while Kelly’s over the moon to get behind the scenes at Parliament and to watch her hero in action. But getting what you want in the nation’s capital requires some fancy footwork. What they all experience in that week makes them question their ambitions, their ideals and the value of democracy itself.'

Source: Production blurb.

Production Details

  • Presented by State Theatre Company of South Australia at Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, 7-22 February 2025.

    Director: Shannon Rush.

    Designer: Ailsa Paterson.

    Lighting Designer: Nigel Levings.

    Cast: Emily Taheny and Susie Youssef.

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Works about this Work

New Play Housework Is a Future Australian Classic – A Don’s Party for Our Time Catherine Campbell , 2025 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 13 February 2025;

— Review of Housework Emily Steel , 2025 single work drama

'Housework, a new play by Emily Steel, lifts the rock off politics to expose its crawling, ruthless, yet undeniably comic underside. The result is masterful, hilarious and deeply incisive.'

New Play Housework Is a Future Australian Classic – A Don’s Party for Our Time Catherine Campbell , 2025 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 13 February 2025;

— Review of Housework Emily Steel , 2025 single work drama

'Housework, a new play by Emily Steel, lifts the rock off politics to expose its crawling, ruthless, yet undeniably comic underside. The result is masterful, hilarious and deeply incisive.'

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