BECKY SHAW

"Gina Gionfriddo’s tangled tale of love, sex and ethics… is as engrossing as it is ferociously funny, like a big box of fireworks fizzing and crackling across the stage from its first moments to its last” The New York Times

Directed by Sydney Theatre Company Artistic Director Mitchell Butel, Becky Shaw is a gloriously wicked comedy of contemporary manners by two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee and screenwriter Gina Gionfriddo (House of Cards, Law and Order).

Loosely based on William Thackeray’s novel Vanity Fair, Gionfriddo’s Becky Shaw was revived on Broadway in 2026 in a Tony-winning production. In this brand-new Australian production, Andrea Demetriades (Home, I’m Darling, The River) steps into the deliciously complex role of Suzanna, a woman who learns never to play matchmaker. She's joined by stage and screen star Lincoln Younes (Last King of the Cross) and a cast of three actors.

Suzanna’s relationship with her acid-tongued foster brother Max is complicated. Max is cynical, damaged, and abrasive – but he is also loyal to Suzanna, and her dependence on him in the aftermath of her father’s death spills over into something… not exactly sibling-like. The charge is still there even after Suzanna marries nice guy Andrew. When they set Max up on a blind date with Andrew’s colleague Becky, what could go wrong?

“Gionfriddo is some kind of genius” (Variety), and Becky Shaw is her masterwork. Don't miss this riotously funny portrait of romantic entanglement and the unspoken bounds of class.