Zebra! single work   drama   humour  
Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 Zebra!
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'The global housing bubble has well and truly burst, leaving the inhabitants of the previously buoyant city deflated and contemplating the impending age of austerity. While CNN reports that ruined New Yorkers have begun to exchange goods for services, trading iPods for cab rides, the deal of the century is going down in a Manhattan bar called 'The Big House'.

At his daughter's request, 57-year-old businessman Larry has agreed to a blind date with her fiancée. He's expecting a 'kid' to show up. What he is not expecting is Jimmy, a 55-year-old Australian jock, who is betrothed to his precious little girl. These two self-made men are going to have to do business. Jimmy is selling and the product is himself: 'the best son in-law in the world'.

Apart from the soon-to-be in-laws, the bar is deserted. Its owner, Robinson, is in the depths of an emotional and fiscal crisis of her own but when this chance meeting blows Jimmy, an acquaintance from the distant past, in her direction the course of her future might be set to change.' (Sydney Theatre Company website)

Production Details

  • First produced by Sydney Theatre Company and Investec Bank at Wharf 1, Sydney, New South Wales, 10 March – 30 April, 2011. Directed by Lee Lewis.

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Works about this Work

Sydney Theatre Company In the Red Wendy Frew , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4 May 2012; (p. 3)
Friels and Brown Fail to Find the Right Chemistry Jason Blake , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12-13 March 2011; (p. 13)

— Review of Zebra! Ross Mueller , 2011 single work drama
Friels and Brown Fail to Find the Right Chemistry Jason Blake , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12-13 March 2011; (p. 13)

— Review of Zebra! Ross Mueller , 2011 single work drama
Sydney Theatre Company In the Red Wendy Frew , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4 May 2012; (p. 3)
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