‘Critics Choice’ TIMEOUT

“The audience ends up laughing as someone dies, uncomfortably bizarre, but that’s the genre. Tinkertown is under the expert direction of MKA Artistic Director Tobias Manderson-Galvin… Outstanding performances from Rebecca Mezei and Steven Kennedy.”
MELBOURNE OBSERVER

‘Steven Kennedy as Chester had a commanding stage presence. Rebecca Mezei as the sullen teenage daughter was an absolute treat to watch. ”
AUSTRALIAN STAGE ONLINE

On his first day out of prison in 10 years, Chester decides to visit his teenage daughter. But when he accidentally shoots dead his ex-wife’s sister, the visit turns into a kidnapping and he and his daughter race across the outback, to get to know each other, and escape the cops.

Nathaniel Moncrieff wowed audiences in 2011 with SLEEPYHEAD and now, as 2012 begins, MKA brings you TINKERTOWN, another Australian Gothic from the talented Western Australian writer. Shooting, kidnapping, running away, shooting, cheap dirty speed balls, jukeboxes, dancing, coked-out sex, alcoholism, stabbing, shooting, lusting, fields by a high way, running away, a car park, robbery, service stations, passing out, hotel room, a salt lake and a scarecrow. You can choose your friends but you can’t choose your relatives, but sometimes you can kill them and sometimes you can kidnap them and then the cops can conduct an hour long chase scene after you through the harsh West Australian desert.

TINKERTOWN is another distinctly Australian, gothic-black comedy penned by Nathaniel Moncrieff and directed by MKA Artistic Director Tobias Manderson-Galvin.

REVIEWS

“Wonderful”
SOMETIMES MELBOURNE

“Tobias Manderson-Galvin’s direction is snappy, rippling with incongruity and deflationary humour”

THE AGE (On Manderson-Galvin’s 22 Short Plays)

“the standards of the genre are all there: the imperilled young girl, the monstrous male, the fusing of psychology and environment, the return of the repressed, the descent into hysteria.”

REALTIME (on Moncreiff’s Sleepyhead)

MKA IN ASSOCIATION WITH THEATRE WORKS PRESENTS

TINKERTOWN BY NATHANIEL MONCRIEFF

FEB21-MAR03

Theatre Works

PLAYWRIGHT NATHANIEL MONCRIEFF

DIRECTOR TOBIAS MANDERSON-GALVIN

FEATURING STEVEN KENNEDY / REBECCA MEZEI / MARILYN HARRIS / CAMERON MOORE / VERONICA THOMAS AND FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY BRYNNE EDELSTEN

Double Bill

TINKERTOWN plays as a part of the MKA DOUBLE BILL with HOSE

See more about HOSE by BRIDGET MACKEY

Location

Theatre Works, 14 Acland Street, St Kilda

Season

Previews Feb21-Feeb22

Season Feb23-Mar03

Times

Tues-Sat 9pm

(HOSE plays at 8pm)

Duration

50min

(HOSE runs prior and also runs for 50min)

Tickets

Full Price TINKERTOWN for $25 or see HOSE+TINKERTOWN for $40

Concession TINKERTOWN for $20 or see HOSE+TINKERTOWN for $35

Previews+Tuesdays TINKERTOWN for $15 or HOSE+TINKERTOWN for $30

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MKA

TINKERTOWN CREDITS

PLAYWRIGHT NATHANIEL MONCRIEFF (PERTH) DIRECTOR TOBIAS MANDERSON-GALVIN PRODUCER SOREN JENSEN FEATURING STEVEN KENNEDY / REBECCA MEZEI / MARILYN HARRIS / CAMERON MOORE / VERONICA THOMAS LIGHTING DESIGN ROB SOWINSKI COSTUME DESIGN CHLOE GREAVES STAGE DESIGN EUGYEENE TEH SOUND PRODUCTION MAT BLACKWELL ILLUSTRATION THERESE GERONIMO PUBLICITY KAITLYN CLARE PROMOTIONAL STILLS/TRAILER SARAH WALKER FEATURED IN TRAILER CASSIE FUMI / STEVEN KENNEDY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER GLYN ROBERTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR TOBIAS MANDERSON-GALVIN