Remember the days when Sunday roasts at the folks' house were made sweeter due to Sunday night movies? When an 8.30pm screening of Jerry Maguire or Batman Returns or some cheeseball rom-com provided a nostalgic sense of home? Belvoir St Theatre, for one, have been craving that type of Sunday night community, and so they've gone about restoring it. And in typical Belvoir style, it's being delivered to us in the edgiest way possible.
Introducing B Street, a series of Sunday night performances Belvoir have tagged "a soapie". Penned by acclaimed Aussie actor/writers Charlie Garber and Rita Kalnejais, as well as Belvoir's writer-in-residence, Tommy Murphy, the six 'episodes' will feature ongoing characters and continuing plot lines to ensure that us theatregoers can pick up from where a performance has left off the week prior.
Expect all your typical soap-like elements: love, paternal cover-ups and even an academic who "arrives puffed", according to Belvoir's teaser synopsis. Sounds like a scream to us.
The shows will start at around 8pm every week.