Cost of living

DOES LOVE HAVE A BOTTOM LINE?

Former-carer turned Playwright Martyna Majok won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this play in 2018 and it’s easy to see why. This is a beautifully rendered story about our need to care (or be cared for) no matter the distance that age, race and disability might place between us.

Drawing on her lived experience, Majok introduces us to four seemingly disconnected characters whose lives are at a crossroads. There’s John — a wealthy successful PhD student with cerebral palsy ­— who hires the secretive Jess to be his new carer. And then there’s Eddie, an unemployed truck driver, desperately trying to reconcile with his ex-wife Ani, who has become a wheelchair user after an accident.

Told with deft humour and enormous heart, the Australian premiere of this highly-lauded work is directed by Priscilla Jackman (The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race) and Dan Daw, also appearing as John, with Philip Quast as Eddie, Kate Hood as Ani and Zoe de Plevitz as Jess.

"Worth its weight in gold"
— The New York Times

"Sensational! The kind of theatre that imprints on the body and lives in your bones"
— Variety

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Creatives

Writer Martyna Majok
Co-Directors Priscilla Jackman, Dan Daw
Set and Costume Designer Michael Scott-Mitchell
Lighting Designer John Rayment
Composer and Sound Designer Guy Webster
Dialect Coach Gabrielle Rogers
Movement and Intimacy Coach NJ Price

Stage Management

Stage Manager Grant Gravener
Assistant Stage Managers Yanni Dubler, Sophie Woodcock

Theatre Access Assistants to Kate Hood Madeleine Lewis, Sophie McCrae
Personal Assistant to Dan Daw Lauren Smeaton

Cast

John Dan Daw
Ani Kate Hood
Jess Zoe de Plevitz
Eddie Philip Quast