The Dogs Play and A Few Roos Loose in the Top Paddock

Presented together, the vigorous contrasts of these two short plays create an innovative evening of comic, anarchic, physical theatre. Dogs are unleashed in all their loving, libidinous energy upon Jenna, a woman with an uncertain past and a dangerous future. Kangaroos are the sentinels, guardians of the land upon which Suzy and Pete build their dream lives. Both stories focus upon the desires of contemporary women – one urban, the other suburban. As actual onstage characters, the dogs and roos are both feral and spiritual – vaudevillian troupers providing comfort, laughter and inspiring passions in their human companions.

Dogs: Jenna is a city girl who lives and works in the innermost recesses of the teeming metropolis. But her dogs keep her grounded.

Roos: Suzy and Pete are about to have their suburban bliss shattered forever by visitors from a world about which they had never dared to dream.