Hamley Productions presents

The Gift

by Joanna Murray-Smith, directed by Chris Hamley

Event Venue

Earl Arts Centre, Launceston

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  • Thu, Oct 5 2023 7:00pm
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Running Time

2 hours and 20 minutes (including interval)

Pricing

  • Adult - $45
  • Concession - $40
  • Student (full time under 21 years) - $30

Notes

No photography or recording

Suitable for 12 years and older

Occasional mild coarse language

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Hamley Productions presents

The Gift

by Joanna Murray-Smith, directed by Chris Hamley

Self-made millionaires, comfortably middle-aged Ed and Sadie meet Martin and Chloe – he a struggling conceptual artist and she a wannabe writer – on a thousand-dollar-a-night resort in the tropics and instantly hit it off.

This unlikely friendship develops over drunken conversations about moralistic values and social integrities. Effervescent conversations are lined with pure envy: money and security vs. youth and vibrancy.

These self-obsessed characters expose the tedium of a life of consumerism, the narcissism of contemporary values, the emptiness of the commodification of art, the guilt that seems hard-wired into middle-class parenting, and the poisonous nature of nostalgia.

Wrapped in Joanna Murray-Smith's glinting dialogue, The Gift is a witty examination of our modern moral confusions.

This play has a secret. A preposterous gift. A life-changing proposition. Would you accept?

CAST

  • MARTIN - Chris Jackson
  • CHLOE - Tia Landeg
  • ED - Andrew Casey
  • SADIE - Clare Pearson
"….it is no longer easy to fashion any moral quandary that can truly shock an audience, and Murray-Smith has managed to grab hold of (something) rare and original.."
The Hollywood Reporter
"Fresh imagination, shimmering wit and emotional honesty."
Time Out
"The questions (Murray-Smith) poses are familiar, even if nobody is brave enough to utter them aloud. She is, unquestionably, a ribbon-wrapped present to public theatre."
Crikey (MTC Review)
"There's a secret -- a preposterous gift -- that is revealed near the end of Joanna Murray-Smith's play, and it's a real doozy."
Variety Review

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