Ghosting the Party

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Event Ghosting the Party
Venue Stables Theatre, Darlinghurst, NSW
First Date 20 May 2022
Last Date 18 June 2022
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere Yes
Description Coming home from her sister’s funeral, Grace decides that at 87 years old… her time has come. She’s done with it all. She’s ready to leave the party.

Her daughter, Dorothy, decides her mum is just depressed. She makes it her mission to show Grace the beauty of living. But Dorothy is divorced. Stuck in a dead-end job. Estranged from her own daughter, Suzie, who lives halfway across the world. Soon, Dorothy starts to worry that her mum might have the right idea.

Pushing up daisies. Kicking the bucket. Ghosting the Party. The euphemisms are endless. For a phenomenon so certain and all-encompassing, humans are terribly good at looking for ways to avoid talking about death. It’s easy to forget that the concept of ‘checking out’ can be complex, contradictory—funny, even. Especially when an old lady with a bone-dry wit is involved.

Three generations of women face brutal questions of mortality in this uproarious pitch-black comedy from Melissa Bubnic, internationally-renowned writer of Boys Will Be Boys and Beached, with Griffin’s Associate Artist Andrea James in the director’s chair—hand on heart and tongue in cheek. Painted with poetry, unflinching honesty and an almost absurd amount of biting one-liners, confronting death has never been this (gravely) funny.
Description Source Website
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Comedy
Black Comedy
Subjects Ageing
Death
Family
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Belinda Giblin Actor Grace
Amy Hack Actor Suzie
Jillian O'Dowd Actor Dorothy
Andrea James Director Director
Saint Clair Lighting Designer Associate Lighting Designer
Verity Hampson Lighting Designer Lighting Designer
Melissa Bubnic Playwright Playwright
Isabel Hudson Production Designer Designer
Phil Downing Sound Composer Composer & Sound Designer
Phil Downing Sound Designer Composer & Sound Designer
Madelaine Osborn Stage Manager Stage Manager
Works
Text Nationality Australia
Production Nationality Australia
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Web https://griffintheatre.com.au/whats-on/ghosting-the-party/
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 163095