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Mortido

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¿Como sabes que esto no es el sueño?
(How do you know this is not the dream?)
How do you know this is not the nightmare?

Mortido is a remarkable crime drama, revenge tragedy and morality play all rolled into one.

Jimmy is a small-time dealer and Monte is a biggish-time distributor. Grubbe is a detective. They all want the same thing: to live out their lives in leisure. And a water view would be nice. But for Jimmy and Monte to win, Grubbe has to lose. Same goes the other way.

It begins with a Mexican fable about death and ends in the Western suburbs of Sydney. In between it takes in the public housing on Belvoir Street, Krispy Kreme doughnuts, quinoa, Nazi Germany, Qantas, Coca-Cola, a seventh birthday party, the Surry Hills police, the property market and a body in the harbour. The connective tissue? Cocaine.

This is Betzien's most ambitious play so far, and a brilliant portrait of the Emerald City: familiar, bizarre, glorious and mean.

A quintessential Sydney tale about crime, globalisation and the killer desire for a bigger house.

  • 120
  • 12 total
  • 2 female identifying, 10 male identifying
  • 18+
  • adult
  • Currency Press


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REVIEW: MORTIDO - COLIN FRIELS AND THE 'WAR ON DRUGS'

BEN BROOKER, THE DAILY REVIEW, 21 OCTOBER 2015

"It’s a heady brew, made all the more exhilarating by an inexorable ratcheting up of tension."

REVIEW: BETZIEN’S CONFRONTING EXAMINATION OF DEATH & DRUGS

MURRAY BRAMWELL, THE AUSTRALIAN, 22 OCTOBER 2015

"Mortido reminds us destructive energy is the libido of death, whether it’s a needle in the arm or a plot to overthrow a drug cartel."

INTERVIEW: MORTIDO - BOOKS AND ARTS DAILY

ABC RADIO NATIONAL, 19 OCTOBER 2015

Michael Chathcart from ABC RN's Books & Arts Daily chats with 'Mortido' playwright, Angela Betzien. Featuring a sneak preview of the play with actors Colin Friels and Tom Conroy.

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