Brand Spanking New

Overview

Need new drama? The New Theatre has concentrated it for you at its third annual Brand Spanking New season. A collection of authors, actors and directors have been pulled together by Stories from the 428 curator, Augusta Supple, to tell their disparate stories over a common set. This project offers seventeen different writers, each of whom is putting on a new piece especially for this production. The resulting plays, monologues and stranger devices have been arrayed for your joint delectation over twelve nights, starting Wednesday.

Reuniting some authors from the 428, Brand Spanking New's writing line-up also includes four alumni of Radio National's audio-dramatic Airplay series. Alli Sebastian Wolf's work also features — whose fast-talking, fast-drinking and fish-loving Hideous Demise of Detective Slate played at the Boiler Room earlier this year in Sydney's Fringe. It shared space there with fellow Brand Spanking New scribe Alison Rooke's Combat Fatigue. With so many avenues of talent converging on the New Theatre's stage, great things should be expected from this short season.

Brand Spanking New is running from October 27 until November 6, Wednesdays to Saturdays.