A new play by Robert Kronk
Directed by Bridget Boyle
Dramaturgy and story development: Anna Yen
Cast includes: Helen Cassidy, Allen Laverty, Emily Liu, Kate Wilson and Anna Yen
Designed by Ella Lincoln
Sound design by Busty Beatz
Lighting design by Glenn Hughes

After the success of the award-winning The Longest Minute, debase creatives Bridget Boyle and Robert Kronk are turning their hand to the noir genre – with a regional Queensland twist.

Cliff’s life is in the toilet: he’s lost his wife, his job, and he’s back living in Bundaberg. Struggling to reconcile with his daughter (and his mother), Cliff navigates family dramas, local politics, and a potential murder case … all without a car.

Elliott’s doing alright: she’s finishing Year 12, looking after her grandmother, and running the family newsagent … until her estranged father turns up out of the blue, the mayor turns up dead, and the papers don’t turn up at all.

Of all the rum joints in all the world, it had to happen in Bundy.

Combining a suspicious death, strained family relationships, generational change, and a reckoning of what being Australian actually means – Death in a Statesman is funny, smart, and wears the hell out of a fedora.

Death in a Statesman is being developed with regular debase collaborator Allen Laverty.