
Overview
Sex scandals, culture wars, motherhood and Machiavellian manipulation – it’s all in a day’s work inside the House.
Playwright Emily Steel and director Shannon Rush pull back the curtain on the real Parliament House in this bold, black comedy hailed an “undeniably Australian and gloriously uncompromising” (The Conversation) future classic.
Brought to brilliant life by some of Australia’s most beloved comic actors, Housework follows a group of political dynamos through the backstabbing and backroom deals of a high-stakes sitting week in Canberra, whilst balancing family crises just as frantic.
With Susie Youssef (Deadloch, The Project) as first-time MP Ruth Mandour, Emily Taheny (Mad as Hell) as her overworked Chief of Staff and iconic media polymath Indira Naidoo as… well, you’ll see, this is Aussie political satire at its very best.
A whip-smart and gaspingly funny sprint through the corridors of power
Creative
Franca Lafosse
Indira Naidoo
Emily Taheny
Susie Youssef
Shannon Rush
Ailsa Paterson
Nigel Levings
Andrew Howard
Tahli Corin
James Watson
Holly Ward
Matt Byrne
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Venue Details
Drama Theatre
Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point, SYDNEY NSW 2000

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