By Stephen Sewell
Directed by Neil Armfield

Cast includes Marcus Graham, Rebecca Massey,
Catherine McClements and John Wood
Set and Costume Design Stephen Curtis
Lighting Design Paul Jackson
Sound Design Russell Goldsmith
Composer John Rodgers

An Apocalyptic Now

In this Malthouse Theatre co-production with Company B Belvoir, director
Neil Armfield (Cloudstreet, Stuff Happens) is reunited with long-time collaborator
and one of Australia's most important storytellers, Stephen Sewell (The Blind
Giant is Dancing, The Boys), to present the hotly anticipated premiere of
Stephen's latest play.

A savage comedy of manners, It Just Stopped explores Australia's relationship
to art, globalisation, death, technology, America, Campari, cardboard boxes and
slavery. Sewell's play is funny and shocking in turn. It holds the mirror up to the
things we value today and asks the questions: what will we value the day the
world just stops; and what would we be willing to trade for our own survival?
What begins as a sparkling dream in the style of the golden age of American
cinema ends as an existential nightmare for the 'War on Terror' generation.
A sugar-coated knife slowly turned in the belly from the pen of our most
provocative playwright.