6 May – 11 June 2022
Venue: STC: Wharf 1 Theatre
Presented by Sydney Theatre Company and Queensland Theatre.
Performance Times
Monday – Friday 7pm
Saturday 1pm & 7pm
Approximate Run Time:
90min no interval
Ticket Prices
Mon – Thu performances
Full $62
Senior, Preview, Groups 8+ $52
Concession $46
Under 35 $38
Monday Rush $20
Winner of The Lysicrates Prize
By: Melissa Bubnic
Director: Andrea James
Coming home from her sister’s funeral, Grace decides that at 87 years old… her time has come. She’s done with it all. She’s ready to leave the party.
Her daughter, Dorothy, decides her mum is just depressed. She makes it her mission to show Grace the beauty of living. But Dorothy is divorced. Stuck in a dead-end job. Estranged from her own daughter, Suzie, who lives halfway across the world. Soon, Dorothy starts to worry that her mum might have the right idea.
Pushing up daisies. Kicking the bucket. Ghosting the Party. The euphemisms are endless. For a phenomenon so certain and all-encompassing, humans are terribly good at looking for ways to avoid talking about death. It’s easy to forget that the concept of ‘checking out’ can be complex, contradictory—funny, even. Especially when an old lady with a bone-dry wit is involved.
Three generations of women face brutal questions of mortality in this uproarious pitch-black comedy from Melissa Bubnic, internationally-renowned writer of Boys Will Be Boys and Beached, with Griffin’s Associate Artist Andrea James in the director’s chair—hand on heart and tongue in cheek. Painted with poetry, unflinching honesty and an almost absurd amount of biting one-liners, confronting death has never been this (gravely) funny.
Content Warning: Ghosting the Party contains depictions of suicide and drug use, descriptions of self-harm, coarse language and sexual references.
Designer Isabel Hudson
Lighting Designer Verity Hampson
Associate Lighting Designer Saint Clair
Composer & Sound Designer Phil Downing
Stage Manager Madelaine Osborn
With
Belinda Giblin, Amy Hack, Jillian O’Dowd
