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Production still from the STC season of "Going Down". L-R: Jenny Wu, Catherine Davies. Photographer: Brett Boardman
Going Down
By Michele Lee
10 May 2018 – 03 June 2018 Beckett Theatre
Malthouse Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company,
New Writing Commission Theatre World Premiere Co-Production
Natalie Yang's career is going up. Or, so she thought. Her semi-autobiographical sex-positive debut novel, Banana Girl, has finally hit the shelves, but it's not quite the best-seller she hoped it would be. The career success of her rival, Lu Lu Jayadi, an award-winning author of clichéd migrant stories, sends Natalie’s confidence spiralling out of control.
Natalie is only one bender away from cracking her next big idea, but it may take a shame spiral in a luxury shopping centre to get there. Her career come-down is about to get very real.
Leticia Cáceres directs this side-splitting comedy on the contradictions of Melburnian multiculturalism, from the fast-paced mind of Hmong-Aussie playwright Michele Lee (winner of the 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, for Rice).
This production transferred from a season at the Wharf for the Sydney Theatre Company (23 March - 5 May).
★★★★
"TWISTS IRREVERENT SEX COMEDY AND SARDONIC LITERARY SATIRE INTO A WARTS-AND-ALL TAKE-DOWN"
— The Age
★★★★
"BURSTS OFF THE STAGE"
— Time Out
"CATHERINE DAVIES AS NATALIE IS A FIREBALL, SPARKING WITH ENERGY"
— The Australian
"A VIBRANT, LAYERED COMIC EXPLORATION OF STEREOTYPES...HILARIOUS"
— The Conversation
Cast
Creatives
![Michele Lee](/media/fkci33de/lee-michele.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=300&height=300&rnd=132763239737300000)
Playwright
![Leticia Caceres](/media/vjlnexik/caceres-leticia.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=300&height=300&rnd=132763235584900000)
Director
![Esther Marie Hayes](/media/dqtllnvo/hayes-esther.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=300&height=300&rnd=132763238613400000)
Designer
![Mark Pritchard](/media/t1pfraua/pritchard-mark.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=300&height=300&rnd=132763241760630000)
Dramaturg
![Rebecca Hayes](/media/fu1jf4w0/hayes-rebecca.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=300&height=300&rnd=132763238617470000)
Video Designer, Designer
![Sian James-Holland](/media/tp5nh3sv/james-holland-sian.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=300&height=300&rnd=132763239186170000)
Lighting Designer
![Christina Hayes](/media/hzwl5ukd/hayes-christina.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=300&height=300&rnd=132763238608400000)
Designer
![Matilda Woodroofe](/media/dswpvbmf/woodroofe-matilda.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=300&height=300&rnd=132763244079630000)
Associate Designer
![Lyndie Li Wan Po](/media/4rvghkmv/li-wan-po-lyndie.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=300&height=300&rnd=132763239825230000)
Stage Manager
Acknowledgements
A Malthouse Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company production. Going Downwas originally commissioned by Malthouse Theatre through the support of the Malcolm Robertson Foundation.