The Way Things Work – Rock Surfers

Overview

Corruption at the highest level is a timely topic. Rock Surfers' upcoming production The Way Things Work takes characters that are all too familiar (for all the wrong reasons), pits them in a sordid cover-up against each other, and watches the messy trickle-down from public office, through the boardroom scuffles of private enterprise and down to the seedy inner workings of the criminal underbelly.

The play is the winner of the inaugural Rock Surfers/CJZ Playwriting commission. Written by Aidan Fennessy and directed by Leland Kean, it's a proudly Australian satirical take on the grubby bedfellows that are politics and big business, following a certain minister through the descent behind the trashy headlines. Kean describes it as "a wonderfully biting, aggressive, corrupt, contemporary, black comedy". Laugh, cringe, be horrified, then leave trying to ignore the sinking sensation that comes with the realisation that it's all a little bit close to home.