Media and it’s collateral damage explored in this new Australian play
Writer Chris Bryant and actor Chloe Bayliss join stages to unpack the world of media and it’s effects on the audiences it entices.
Home Invasion
An obsessive Paula Abdul fan, June, auditions for American Idol in an attempt to impress her hero. A young girl named Sam enters a relationship with her mechanic, Anthony, and cultivates a dangerous obsession with brutally confronting his wife, Carol. Carol, meanwhile, has reoccurring dreams in which a ghostly Jon Benét Ramsey visits her, prophesying about the future.
Equally disturbing and humorous, Home Invasion explores celebrity infatuation and our culture’s obsession with the relentless mediatisation of violent acts, weaving together three incidents from real life.
Content warning: Adult themes, sexual references, coarse language, suicide themes, loud noises and impersonations of Simon Cowell.
21 March – 7 April 2018
Home Invasion
$45 Premium Adults* / $40 Adults / $30 Concession, Industry & Under 30 / ‘Pay what you want’ Previews
By
CHRISTOPHER BRYANT
Direction & lighting design by
ALEXANDER BERLAGE
Set design by
JEREMY ALLEN
Costume design by
ELLEN STANISTREET
With
CHLOE BAYLISS
KATE CHEEL
MORGAN MAGUIRE
WENDY MOCKE
CECILIA MORROW
YURE COVICH
Tuesday – Saturday 8pm