Black is the New White (image courtesy Sydney Theatre Company, 2017)
Sydney Theatre Company and Allens present Black is the New White by Nakkiah Lui.
Guess who’s coming to dinner? Charlotte Gibson is a lawyer on the up. She won a landmark Native Title case, she’s making her parents proud, she could have her own TV show tomorrow. But she has other ideas. First of all, it’s Christmas. Second of all, she’s in love. The thing is, her fiancé, Francis Smith, has the whitest name in the world and is an unemployed experimental classical composer. This is not what her family expected.
In this deliciously funny romantic comedy, newly commissioned by STC, writer Nakkiah Lui shows why she is one of this country’s most in-demand young voices. A writer and star of Black Comedy on ABC, a fearless columnist and an award-winning playwright, Lui writes cutting satire that is both seductively subversive and thoroughly delightful. Paige Rattray (Boys will be boys) directs a wonderful ensemble, featuring Tony Briggs (ABC TV’s Cleverman), Luke Carroll (The Hanging), Geoff Morrell (Vere Faith) Shari Sebbens (Battle of Waterloo) and Anthony Taufa (The Golden Age).
When: 5 May – 17 June 2017
Where: Wharf 1 Theatre, Walsh Bay
Find out more: https://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/whats-on/productions/2017/black-is-the-new-white
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