Cybec Electric: Play Reading Series

Cybec Electric Play Readings offer emerging writers the opportunity to share work in development with an audience. Get a first look at three bold new Australian works. Each session is a different work. To see all three, book tickets to all three sessions.

THU 17 OCT: LOVE AND REPARATION by Danish Sheikh
The architecture of the law often has little patience for lived experience.

In 2018, after a decades-long battle, the Supreme Court of India finally overturned Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code - a law that effectively criminalised the intimate lives of LGBTIQ+ people.

Love and Reparation is a two-part epic that transcends time and theatrical form to pitch the legal against the poetic. Interweaving court transcripts with imagined affidavits and personal memoir, it examines the scars Section 377 left on LGBTIQ+ people in India - as well as the love that was born in its shadow.

FRI 18 OCT: THE GREEK WORD FOR FUNERAL by George Lazaris
My Big Fat Greek Wedding meets August: Osage County. With tea and bikkies.

A family reunites to mourn their beloved Papou and the only thing more stocked than the fridge are the resentments. As the spanakopita defrosts, three generations will be transformed by the brutal honesty only family can serve.

This three act tragicomedy slices open the Greek-Australian family dynamic and plays with its organs. A fresh take on a familiar form, The Greek Word for Funeral both celebrates and commiserates the unshakable bonds of family.

SAT 19 OCT: MATURE SKIN by Gabrielle Fallen
A shopgirl and a fragrance designer walk into a bar.

Two strangers meet in bathroom cubicle. They both work for Australia’s leading all-natural skincare brand, but they’re twenty years apart in age and paygrade. And one of them has an insatiable fetish for broken skin.

With top notes of hot sex and undercurrents of body horror, Mature Skin is more rom-vom than rom-com. An unflinching interrogation of the nastiness and beauty of queer bodies.

Made possible by the support of the late Dr Roger Riordan and the Cybec Foundation

MTC is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and the State Government of Victoria through Creative Australia.

MTC is a department of the University of Melbourne.