K-BOX
Lucy hasn’t been home in a while. But she's quit her job, dumped her boyfriend, and turned up on her adoptive parents' doorstep needing somewhere to crash. George and Shirley don't know what to do with their daughter. She's depressed, she's a mess, and she's stumbled across an old cardboard box that was once full of childhood memories but is now completely empty.
Lucy and her parents haven’t always seen eye to eye on everything, but when a K-Pop star mysteriously wanders into their lives and starts asking destabilising questions about her Korean roots, new fault lines are exposed in the family unit that become impossible to hide.
This award-winning comedy from Ra Chapman (Malthouse Artist in Residence) and starring Maude Davey (Melancholia, The Lockdown Monologues), Syd Brisbane (Because The Night), and newcomers Susanna Qian and Jeffrey Liu (JËVA), K-BOX brings humour, guts and hard truths to the suburban family dinner table.
PRODUCTION PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERS
Malthouse Theatre presents K-BOX. Commissioned by Malthouse Theatre through the Living Now program, supported by Australia Council for the Arts and the Malcolm Robertson Foundation. With thanks to the Robert Salzer Foundation for supporting sound design on this production by Marco Cher-Gibard. Malthouse is supported by COVID-19 Arts Sustainability Fund - an Australian Government initiative.
Images: Tamarah Scott, Phoebe Powell
WRITER
Ra Chapman
DIRECTOR
Bridget Balodis
DRAMATURG
Mark Pritchard
CAST
Syd Brisbane
CAST
Maude Davey
CAST
Jeffrey Liu
CAST
Susanna Qian
Set & Costume Designer
Romanie Harper
Lighting Designer
Amelia Lever-Davidson
SOUND DESIGNER
Marco Cher-Gibard
Stage Manager
Cecily Rabey
BESEN PLACEMENT (DIRECTING) /
Malith Wijayawardhana
BESEN PLACEMENT (COMPOSITION & SOUND DESIGN) /
Grace Ferguson
BESEN PLACEMENT (LIGHTING DESIGN) /
Harrie Hogan
VOCAL COACHES /
Suzanne Heywood, Mark Wong
CHOREOGRAPHY /
Rachael Lee
VCA STAGE MANAGEMENT INTERN /
Isobelle De Livera
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Event notes
WARNINGS /
This production uses a haze effect, and contains mild coarse language. For more detailed information, see our full list of content warnings here.
DURATION /
Approx. 100 minutes (no interval)