A View of Concrete

Written by Gareth Ellis
Directed by Allan Girod
Featuring Anna Brockway, James Helm, Brendan Ewing, and Mel Munt

Clouds have turned orange, parks have become multiplexes, drugs are on the menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and now cats and dogs are committing suicide.

“Trees don’t make money. Unless you cut them down.”

Melbourne writer Gareth Ellis (2005 Malcolm Robertson Prize, Best Emerging Playwright) constructs a cruel, gripping and twisted snapshot of the near future that is part surreal comedy and part gritty apocalyptic realism. In his sprawling metropolis, where trees are near non-existent, Neil, Jacquie, Billy and James sidestep the reality of the world they have inherited, and their view of concrete, by entertaining all-encompassing and self-destructive fantasies.

This irreverent, visceral and explosive Wal Cherry Award-winning play presents a heavily constructed, disengaged reality in which human connections are replaced with plug-in devices; a world that may be closer than we think.

A View of Concrete by Gareth Ellis
April 22 - May 9

The Blue Room Theatre
53 James Street, Northbridge
Bookings: (08) 9227 7005 / www.blueroom.org.au