LALLY KATZ | Three Plays

The Eisteddfod | The Black Swan of Trespass | Smashed

"Light moves as time away from us. But if we move with time, faster than light, then we can always catch up with the past. It just depends on how far away we’re willing to go. How deep into outer space we aren’t afraid to travel"

Through the disco-inspired joy of Smashed, to the dark comic absurdity of The Black Swan of Trespass and the unsettling suburban surrealism of The Eisteddfod, Lally Katz has firmly established herself as one of the most intoxicating and unique voices in Australian contemporary theatre.

Winner of multiple Green Room Awards as well as the coveted Producer’s Award at the New York Fringe, Katz’s plays represent a generational leap in Australian playwriting. Never before available in printed form, this collection brings together three ground-breaking works from a writer who continues to transport and exhilarate audiences brave enough to enter her universe.

		ABOUT LALLY KATZ
		Lally has been writing constantly for the theatre since she was sixteen years old. She is a core member of Stuck Pigs Squealing Theatre Company, which has rapidly built a reputation as one of the country’s most exciting theatre companies and for which she’s written The Black Swan of Trespass, The Eisteddfod and Lally Katz and the Terrible Mysteries of the Volcano. These works have toured extensively and won several awards. Some of her other works include: Criminology (co-written with Tom Wright, for Arena Theatre Company and the Malthouse Theatre), Goodbye New York, Goodbye Heart (premiered in New York), Smashed (premiered at the Store Room), Waikiki Palace and Hip Hip Hooray (premiered in Sydney Theatre Company’s Wharf2loud program as a double-bill). Lally is a graduate of the School of Studies in Creative Arts at the University of Melbourne.