PRODUCTION NOTES :

A workshop performance for Wharf 2 Loud

DESCRIPTION

Trevor Flugge has suitcases full of cash, guns and no shirt. Why? He’s not sure because he can’t remember - plus he’s deaf in one ear and hard of hearing in the other.

Almost $300 million in bribes was paid to a regime potentially harbouring weapons of mass destruction. Why? Ministers and executives all struggled to remember exactly what went on, but no one’s too sure; as Commissioner Cole reported: ‘No one asked, “What is the right thing to do?”’.

With a mere eight days of rehearsals, the 8500 pages of transcript and 76 days of the Cole Inquiry’s public hearings will be transformed in to innovative, accessible, entertaining, visionary theatre. The team behind CMI and The Wages of Spin (version 1.0) will again construct one of their unique shows, making-over defiantly non-theatrical documents into provocative political theatre. It’s time to kickback the kickbacks.

Production History:
8-10 February, Wharf 2, Sydney Theatre Company

PRODUCTION CREDITS :

Artists:
Sean Bacon, Paul Dwyer, Stephen Klinder, Jane Phegan, Chris Ryan, Yana Taylor, Kym Vercoe and David Williams.