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The Amazon could cover three quarters of Australia. It's 'in danger of becoming a savannah'. Everything you need to know about the trans-Tasman T20 World Cup final. When the two police become involved in the planned escape, the consequences are both terrible and tragic. As a satirical study of authoritarianism and of social conditioning that forces people into constricting, inflexible roles, the play swings frantically between dark comedy and visceral savagery. Please note: New Theatre is a general admission theatre and seat selection is done on a first-come-first-serve basis.
If you have any concerns, please contact our Theatre Manager manager newtheatre. What an extraordinary night of theatre! The ordeal also shows how the female body is appropriated and objectified by the chauvinist male, something augmented by the deal agreed, sub-textually, by Simmonds and Kate: the police will help Fiona secretly move out of her abusive home, but only for sexual favours.
When Act Two begins, Fiona is packing. But Kenny comes home unexpectedly. Then the Removalist arrives. Then the police. Humiliated and disempowered, Kenny retaliates verbally. Which one was yours? The old fossil here? This ambivalence exemplifies the moral cowardice in society that sustains violence.
Like Simmonds, Ross snaps when his insecurity is targeted, beating Kenny so savagely off-stage that Ross believes him dead. As the panicked police strategise, Kenny drags himself back in. Simmonds cuts a deal: prostitutes in exchange for Kenny staying silent and not seeking damning medical treatment.
As Simmonds and Kenny reconcile over a beer, Kenny dies. Authoritarianism is not the only social conditioning that prompts violence. Kenny enters in Act Two wanting sex and a steak. Women are sex objects with carnal obligations to their husbands, but female sexuality, expressed any other way, is considered abhorrent.
But its wider critique of violence — authoritarian and sexist — triggered by social conditioning, together with a sophisticated structure that leaves its audience uncomfortably tugged between realism and satire, grant it distinction. This interplay of comedy and realism produces a highly accomplished satire: the play speaks directly to its viewers by portraying recognisable Australian characters; it reveals aberrant social behaviour requiring correction; it makes us laugh, yet sickens us by drawing us into their violence; and it has wider application than the era of its creation.
It digs at the heart of our human relationship with violence. Casey, Maryrose. Fitzpatrick, Peter. Williamson: Australian Drama Series Kennedy, Dennis ed.
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