Date/Time
Date(s) - 5 Dec 2015
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Location
Belvoir Street Theatre

Captioned Performance:  Saturday, 5 December 2015 at 2pm

Booking details:   http://belvoir.com.au/productions/mortido/

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ABOUT THE SHOW

A co-commission with Playwriting Australia

A co-production with State Theatre Company of South Australia

Mortido is a crime drama, revenge tragedy and morality play rolled into one. In other words, a quintessential Sydney tale.

It begins with a Mexican fable about death and ends in the Western suburbs. In between it takes in the public housing on Belvoir Street, Krispy Kreme doughnuts, quinoa, Nazi Germany, Qantas, Coca-Cola, a seventh birthday party, the Surry Hills police, the property market and a body in the harbour. The connective tissue? Cocaine.

Jimmy is a small-time dealer and Monte is a biggish-time distributor. Grubbe is a detective. They all want the same thing: to live out their lives in leisure. And a water view would be nice. But for Jimmy and Monte to win, Grubbe has to lose. Same goes the other way.

Angela Betzien is a virtuoso playwright who writes a funny line as well as she writes a thrilling plot and a furious social critique. Mortido is her most ambitious play so far, and a brilliant portrait of the emerald city: familiar, bizarre, glorious and mean.

Colin Friels and director Leticia Cáceres (Miss Julie, The Dark Room) team up for this remarkable new play about crime, globalisation and the killer desire for a bigger house.

Cast

Tom Conroy
Colin Friels
Louisa Mignone
Renato Musolino

Team

By Angela Betzien
Director Leticia Cáceres
Lighting Designer Geoff Cobham
Dramaturg Anthea Williams
Stage Manager Luke McGettigan
Assistant Stage Manager Edwina Guinness