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TRIUMPH

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In the aftermath of a national tragedy, a young woman becomes a hero. From beneath the smoke and rubble of anonymity she emerges with a story of struggle so inspiring that the world can’t help but listen. She becomes our greatest ambassador – an advocate for suffering. If only her story were true. 

Inspired by real stories of fake victims, Triumph plunges headlong into the politics of struggle in the post-9/11 world. Survivors become saints; drop-outs become poster-boys; mothers parade their sick children in search of a spotlight. Hilarious and deeply unsettling, Triumph turns lying on its head to ask why we choose to play the victim, and what lies buried underneath.

  • drama
  • 75
  • 5 total
  • 3 female identifying, 2 male identifying
  • 12 to 16, 16 to 18, 18+
  • adult
  • Australian Script Centre


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In Louris van de Geer's play Triumph, characters connect through pain

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Inspired by true stories, Triumph's three parts are set in a survivor support group following a 911-type horror, a hospital where doctors can't diagnose a teenager, and a forest where two men are almost cheerfully digging two graves.

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Original and unsettling, this play knocks your socks and shoes off with its stark expression of human vulnerability and its shadow side, manipulation. Victims have their own power, a perverted, cannibalistic power, certainly, but victimhood comes with a pay-off.

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