K-BOX

Campaign image for the 2022 Season of 'K-BOX'. L-R: Syd Brisbane, Susanna Qian. Photographer: Shortcut Creative (Tamarah Scott)

K-BOX

By Ra Chapman

02 September 2022 – 18 September 2022 Beckett Theatre

Malthouse Theatre,

Commission New writing Theatre

Lucy hasn’t been home in a while. But she's quit her job, dumped her boyfriend, and turned up on her adoptive parents' doorstep needing somewhere to crash. George and Shirley don't know what to do with their daughter. She's depressed, she's a mess, and she's stumbled across an old cardboard box that was once full of childhood memories but is now completely empty.

Lucy and her parents haven’t always seen eye to eye on everything, but when a K-Pop star mysteriously wanders into their lives and starts asking destabilising questions about her Korean roots, new fault lines are exposed in the family unit that become impossible to hide.

This award-winning comedy from Ra Chapman (Malthouse Artist in Residence) and starring Maude Davey (Melancholia, The Lockdown Monologues), Syd Brisbane (Because The Night), and newcomers Susanna Qian and Jeffrey Liu (JËVA)K-BOX brings humour, guts and hard truths to the suburban family dinner table.

 

"I want to share with audiences the wild ride it is to be a Korean adoptee and the joy and devastation and the impossible choices you are faced with, when you attempt to find something you’ve lost, while still wanting to hold onto what you have."

— Ra Chapman, Writer & Malthouse Artist in Residence
Production still for the 2022 Season of 'K-BOX'. L-R: Susanna Qian, Jeffrey Liu. Photographer: Phoebe Powell
Production still for the 2022 Season of 'K-BOX'. L-R: Maude Davey, Jeffrey Liu (singing), Syd Brisbane, Susanna Qian. Photographer: Phoebe Powell
Production still for the 2022 Season of 'K-BOX'. L-R: Syd Brisbane, Jeffrey Liu. Photographer: Phoebe Powell
Production still for the 2022 Season of 'K-BOX'. L-R: Syd Brisbane, Maude Davey, Susanna Qian, Jeffrey Liu. Photographer: Phoebe Powell
Production still for the 2022 Season of 'K-BOX'. In photo: Jeffrey Liu. Photographer: Phoebe Powell
Production still for the 2022 Season of 'K-BOX'. L-R: Maude Davey, Susanna Qian, Syd Brisbane. Photographer: Phoebe Powell
Production still for the 2022 Season of 'K-BOX'. In photo: Syd Brisbane (front), Maude Davey. Photographer: Phoebe Powell
Production still for the 2022 Season of 'K-BOX'. In photo: Jeffrey Liu. Photographer: Phoebe Powell
Production still for the 2022 Season of 'K-BOX'. L-R: Susanna Qian, Jeffrey Liu. Photographer: Phoebe Powell
Production still for the 2022 Season of 'K-BOX'. In photo: Susanna Qian. Photographer: Phoebe Powell
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Production still for the 2022 Season of 'K-BOX'. L-R: Susanna Qian, Jeffrey Liu. Photographer: Phoebe Powell

Production still for the 2022 Season of 'K-BOX'. L-R: Maude Davey, Jeffrey Liu (singing), Syd Brisbane, Susanna Qian. Photographer: Phoebe Powell

Production still for the 2022 Season of 'K-BOX'. L-R: Syd Brisbane, Jeffrey Liu. Photographer: Phoebe Powell

Production still for the 2022 Season of 'K-BOX'. L-R: Syd Brisbane, Maude Davey, Susanna Qian, Jeffrey Liu. Photographer: Phoebe Powell

Production still for the 2022 Season of 'K-BOX'. In photo: Jeffrey Liu. Photographer: Phoebe Powell

Production still for the 2022 Season of 'K-BOX'. L-R: Maude Davey, Susanna Qian, Syd Brisbane. Photographer: Phoebe Powell

Production still for the 2022 Season of 'K-BOX'. In photo: Syd Brisbane (front), Maude Davey. Photographer: Phoebe Powell

Production still for the 2022 Season of 'K-BOX'. In photo: Jeffrey Liu. Photographer: Phoebe Powell

Production still for the 2022 Season of 'K-BOX'. L-R: Susanna Qian, Jeffrey Liu. Photographer: Phoebe Powell

Production still for the 2022 Season of 'K-BOX'. In photo: Susanna Qian. Photographer: Phoebe Powell

Creatives

Ra Chapman

Ra Chapman

Writer

Bridget Balodis

Bridget Balodis

Director

Mark Pritchard

Mark Pritchard

Dramaturg

Romanie Harper

Romanie Harper

Set & Costume Designer

Amelia Lever-Davidson

Amelia Lever-Davidson

Lighting Designer

Marco Cher-Gibard

Marco Cher-Gibard

Sound Designer

Cecily Rabey

Cecily Rabey

Stage Manager

Acknowledgements

Malthouse Theatre presents K-BOX. Commissioned by Malthouse Theatre through the Living Now program, supported by Australia Council for the Arts and the Malcolm Robertson Foundation. With thanks to the Robert Salzer Foundation for supporting sound design on this production by Marco Cher-Gibard. Malthouse is supported by COVID-19 Arts Sustainability Fund - an Australian Government initiative.

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