A darkly funny new play about home ownership, gender roles and the Australian Dream.

When James moves into a rural Victorian housing estate, his neighbours seem hell-bent on keeping him there, using alcohol, romance, and cricket, to entrap him. Either that, or they're just really keen to welcome a fresh face to Arcadia Place.

Living The Dream is simultaneously comedically ridiculous and painfully confronting. It explores the 'Australian Dream' of home ownership, and the hegemonic values that are implied, expected, and demanded by it. The show focuses on traditional Australian gender roles, and how they are used to reinforce inequitable power structures, and sex-based discrimination. The work seeks to ask the question: what actually is the Australian Dream, and is it something we truly want?

Written and produced by Tom Worsnop
Directed by Claudia Scott

*Contains depictions of alcohol abuse and violence, strong coarse language, and references to disturbing videos, paedophilia, domestic violence and death. Contains strobe lighting. Recommended for mature audiences.

EVENT DETAILS:

Dates: 1–4 October 2026

Time: 8pm

Duration: 60 mins, no interval.

Doors open: 20 mins before the show

Venue: The Showroom at The MC Showroom, Prahran