Introducing Housework, by Emily Steel.
A whip-smart and gaspingly funny sprint through the corridors of power.
Sex scandals, culture wars, motherhood and Machiavellian manipulation – it’s all in a day’s work in the house.
Playwright Emily Steel and director Shannon Rush pull back the curtain on the real Parliament House in this bold, black comedy hailed an “undeniably Australian and gloriously uncompromising” (The Conversation) future classic.
Brought to brilliant life by some of Australia’s most beloved comic actors, Housework follows a group of political dynamos through the backstabbing and backroom deals of a high-stakes sitting week in Canberra, whilst balancing family crises just as frantic.
With Susie Youssef (Deadloch, The Project) as first-time MP Ruth Mandour, Emily Taheny (Mad as Hell) as her overworked Chief of Staff and iconic media polymath Indira Naidoo as… well, you’ll see, this is Aussie political satire at its very best.
Venue
Drama Theatre , Sydney Opera House
Approx. Duration
2hrs 10 minutes, including intervals
Cast
Franca Lafosse
Indira Naidoo
Emily Taheny
Susie Youssef