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THE GOOD SON

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“I keep waiting for someone to tap me on the shoulder and say ‘hey, Frank, thanks for filling in but that’s your life over there and you can get it back now’. I want that life.”

Frank yearns for a different life. He is the loyal, loving son of Meda, a Greek immigrant divorcee. They share a close bond but the line between parent and child has become claustrophobically blurred.

Into Frank’s life comes Ana, a beautiful, fragile woman. Their lives converge at the perfect moment. Frank has finally found a reason to free himself from the familial ties that have suffocated his dreams.

But Meda harbors a dark secret that threatens to crush Frank’s dreams and catapult Meda towards certain disaster.

Inspired by true events, The Good Son is a bold, funny and electrifying new play that explores our idea of family, loyalty and lengths we go to change the cards life has dealt us.

Form/Style: drama / one-act play
Length in minutes: 65
Cast: 4 total
Roles: 2 female identifying, 2 male identifying
Themes: culturally and linguistically diverse
Cast age groups: 18+
Audience age: adult
Publisher: Australian Script Centre

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Starts on page 59

EXTRACT: You shouldn't mess with that sort of crazy. It wants what it wants and nothing else matters. You think you matter to these people? You're living in a fantasy. That kinda crazy won't rest till it gets you. It's already here in this house. It's that fucken powerful. It's in this house. / It's in that year you were selling too, hey Jimmy? The pills and powders that float you out to another place. Where all the ugly stuff inside you, the stuff you shove deep down isn't so ugly any more. Yeah. The crazy loves that shit.

Adult language, Adult themes

REVIEW: THE GOOD SON

ANTHONY VAWSER, STAGE WHISPERS, APRIL 2015

"If The Good Son can ultimately be described as an addiction drama, then it is almost certainly unlike any of those that you may have seen before, because it is genuinely funny at times, as well as being deeply felt in its thematic concerns, not merely an old-fashioned morality play or socially-conscious-slice-of-life. It is fully deserving of the three ovations that were demanded of the cast on opening night."

THE GOOD SON REVIEW (BAKEHOUSE THEATRE, ADELAIDE)

BEN BROOKER, DAILY REVIEW, 13 APRIL 2015

"...while the drama doesnâ€™t depend for its effect on surprising us with twists â€” the richly verisimilar writing and carefully opaque characterisations ensure that it doesnâ€™t have to â€” it is a carefully layered play that, correctly, resists our attempts to peer down into its lower strata as we move more deeply through it."

REVIEW: THE GOOD SON

SAMELA HARRIS, THE BAREFOOT REVIEW, 10 APRIL 2015

"One of the reasons the play sits well is that these four characters are not only believable but they also are, in their way, likeable. They feel real."

THE GOOD SON @ BAKEHOUSE THEATRE

RADIO ADELAIDE, 18 APRIL 2015

Corey McMahon and Renato Mussolino from The Other Ones discuss The Good Son.

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