Dates: 23 October – 8 November
Venue: Main Auditorium, Subiaco Arts Centre
Content warning: Strong language, Sexual references, Family and Domestic Violence (FDV)
Age Recommendation 18+
WA Premiere
Cast and Creatives
Directed by Maitland Schnaars (Nyaki-Nyaki) and Kate Champion
Written by Declan Furber Gillick (Arrernte)
Lighting Designer Kristie Smith
Co-Produced with Black Swan State Theatre Company
Family, culture, survival… and the gamble of balancing it all.
Jacky is a smart, enterprising young Aboriginal man making a life for himself in the city. He’s skilfully navigating the gig economy, skipping neatly from office internships to cultural performances to sex work. But when his little brother Keith shows up unannounced, Jacky’s carefully compartmentalised lives are thrown into chaos.
Sharp, funny and unflinching, Jacky is a biting new play about family, work, culture and the compromises we make to survive. With wit, grit and a wicked sense of humour, Declan Furber Gillick shines a light on the cost of navigating identity, ambition and connection in contemporary Australia.
This bold new co-production brings two of WA’s leading theatre companies together to deliver one of the most exciting new Australian plays of recent years. A work that is as confronting as it is hilarious, as personal as it is political.
“Funny, brutal, and nuanced-this is everything you want in a contemporary Australian play.” Cultural Binge
***** ”Jacky is something incredibly special…book a ticket before you miss out.” ArtsHub
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