The Truth About Kookaburras by Sven Swenson

Description

It’s party-time tonight in the testosterone-drenched change-rooms of AFL underdogs the Gold Coast Kookaburras. They’re celebrating a big win, the booze is free-flowing and a stripper has been booked as a buck’s party surprise for one of the players.

But tainting the air is a bizarre secret held by the entire team. By tomorrow, the secret will be national news, lives will be torn apart and homicide cops will be combing the change-room for clues.

The Truth about Kookaburras was first produced at Metro Arts, 2010 with a subsequent season at La Boite Theatre’s 2012 Indie Season. The Truth about Kookaburras is the first publication in the Playlab Indie Series.

ISBN: 9781921390128

Reviews

"Kookaburras hides many secrets it's best not to reveal but the murder is really a way into exploring a seedy, Fight Club world with themes of mateship, gender politics and what it means to be a modern man."

— Courier Mail, June 2012

"Sven Swenson’s complex and thrilling production is gripping to the final heartbeat as it challenges notions of identity, stereotype and what it means to be a man."

— Brisbane Times, June 2012

"With The Truth About Kookaburras, writer/director Sven Swenson has delivered a work that could rightly, without any fear of exaggeration, be referred to as a masterpiece."

— Australian Stage, June 2012

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