The Gift

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Posted 2023-06-15 by Jane ⇒ follow

Thu 05 Oct 2023 - Sat 07 Oct 2023

Self-made millionaires, comfortably middle-aged Ed and Sadie meet Martin and Chloe – he a struggling conceptual artist and she a wannabe writer – on a thousand-dollar-a-night resort in the tropics and instantly hit it off.

This unlikely friendship develops over drunken conversations about moralistic values and social integrities. Effervescent conversations are lined with pure envy: money and security vs. youth and vibrancy.

These self-obsessed characters expose the tedium of a life of consumerism, the narcissism of contemporary values, the emptiness of the commodification of art, the guilt that seems hard-wired into middle-class parenting, and the poisonous nature of nostalgia.

Wrapped in Joanna Murray-Smith's glinting dialogue, is a witty examination of our modern moral confusions.

This play has a secret. A preposterous gift. A life-changing proposition. Would you accept?

PRICING
Adult - $45
Concession - $40
Student (full time under 21 years) - $30

When:
Thu, Oct 5 2023, 7:00pm
Fri, Oct 6 2023, 7:00pm
Sat, Oct 7 2023, 2:00pm
Sat, Oct 7 2023, 7:00pm

Where:
Earl Arts Centre, 10 Earl St, Launceston TAS 7250, Australia

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