Tinkertown

//// if you're bad - a bad girl - during the night, a doll crawls inside you. it stays in you. /////

MKA in association with Theatre Works presents

Tinkertown by nathaniel moncrieff

director tobias manderson-galvin

stage design eugyeene teh / costume design chloe greaves / lighting design rob sowinski

featuring rebecca mezei / steven kennedy / marilyn harris / cameron moore

on his first day out of prison in 10 years, chester decides to visit his teenage daughter, but when he accidentally shoots dead his ex-wife's sister, the visit turns into a kidnapping and he and his daughter race across the outback, getting to know each other, and getting the **** away from the cops.

shooting, kidnapping, running away, shooting, cheap dirty speed balls, jukeboxes, dancing, coked-out sex, alcoholism, stabbing, shooting, lusting, fields by a high way, running away, a car park, robbery, service stations, passing out, hotel room, a salt lake and a scarecrow.

you can choose your friends but you can’t choose your relatives, but sometimes you can kill them and sometimes you can kidnap them and then the cops can conduct an hour long chase scene after you through the harsh west australian desert.

Tinkertown is another australian gothic black comedy from the writer of Sleepyhead, nathaniel moncrieff and mka artistic director tobias manderson-galvin.

“the standards of the genre are all there: the imperilled young girl, the monstrous male, the fusing of psychology and environment, the return of the repressed, the descent into hysteria.” Realtime (on moncreiff’s Sleepyhead)

“manderson-galvin’s direction is snappy, rippling with incongruity and deflationary humour” The Age (on manderson-galvin’s 22shortplays)

Tinkertown plays as part of the MKA Double Bill with Hose

see more about Hose by Bridget Mackey:
http://www.mka.org.au/?page_id=2154
https://www.facebook.com/events/342029459154490

Tinkertown Trailer from MKA - Theatre of New Writing on Vimeo.