Eddie Perfect's The Beast

Overview

Eddie Perfect invites you to take a seat at the table at the worst dinner party of your life. The writer, actor, comedian and composer — best known for his role in Offspring and as one of the new hosts of Play School — shows off his darker side in a blood-soaked black comedy about middle class Australia.

Written by Perfect, who also stars, The Beast will be on stage at the Melbourne Comedy Theatre from August 25 through to September 4. The play tracks three tree-changing couples who find their (supposedly) enlightened attitudes challenged during a confronting nose-to-tail dinner party.

What follows is a savage, tongue-in-cheek take down of bourgeois attitudes, as Perfect and director Simon Phillips sink their teeth into "social climbers, foodies, wine-snobs, helicopter parents, self‐serving do‐gooders and self-righteous gardeners". Of course Perfect is no stranger to taking the piss, having previously written Shane Warne: The Musical.