TINKERTOWN

Date: 21 Feb 2012 - 03 Mar 2012
Time: 9pm
Preview: Tue 21 & Wed 22 Feb at 9pm
Price: $25 full / $20 conc [double bill tickets available]

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After a powerful debut year on the Melbourne theatrical scene, at the end of which TIMEOUT labeled them "the breakout company of 2011," MKA comes to Theatre Works with a hard-hitting double bill to kick off 2012.

You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your relatives. Sometimes, you can kill them. And sometimes you can kidnap them, and the cops can conduct an hour-long chase scene in the desert. You can't choose them, either. For the first time in ten years, Chester is out of jail and seeing his daughter. But, like everything else in his life, he ain't going to get it right. In an alcoholic haze, he's going to get to know his daughter...and why, of all the people you could possibly kidnap, a 16 year-old girl is not the most favourable choice.

Tinkertown is a black comedy. Its setting is the grit of stark realism, where the problems that confront the average man, and his average daughter, are seen in less than average circumstances.

Shooting, kidnapping, running away, shooting, cheap dirty speed balls, jukeboxes, dancing, coked-out sex, alcoholism, stabbing, shooting, lusting, fields by a highway, running away, a car park, robbery, service stations, passing out, hotel rooms, a salt lake, and a swarm of flies. Moncrieff is a Western Australian and the script's sizzling dialogue features amid golden sunsets and dry, dusty and oppressive settings. Of course, in a way, that's just the backdrop whilst a man and his daughter and their efforts to survive, on the lamb, are the focus.

Written by Nathaniel Moncrieff

Directed by Tobias Manderson-Galvin

Designed by Eugyeene Teh

Featuring: Steven Kennedy, Marilyn Harris, Cameron Moore, Rebecca Mezei

TINKERTOWN trailer