You've walked past it. Maybe through it. Down the end of Victoria Street, opposite St Vincent's Hospital—Green Park.
It's picturesque by day, a little eerie by night. And it's where Warren and Edden are meeting, as a prelude to their Grindr hook up.
One of them doesn't look like his photo. There's an age gap between them (but what's a decade or three?). And one is harbouring a dangerous secret. In an hour's time, both will leave the park profoundly transformed.
Google Maps lists Green Park as 'Good for Kids'. But just a few decades ago, that definitely wasn't the case. For decades, the Wall opposite the park was where rent boys plied their trade for curb-crawling Johns. The public toilet was a spot for secret all-hours hook ups.
When the cops dismantled it, in 1988, a cabal of drag queen nuns—the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence—built a shrine to a chunk of its urinal. These details are becoming lost to time. But in Elias Jamieson Brown's Green Park, Warren and Edden will be pushed together—and apart—by forces of Sydney's history that neither of them can comprehend.
ELIAS JAMIESON BROWN is a playwright and screenwriter. His mainstage debut Green Park, directed by Declan Greene, returned to the stage for Sydney Festival after a critically acclaimed premiere at Griffin Theatre Company. Green Park was nominated for Best Mainstage Production at the Sydney Theatre Awards and shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting. He has presented new writing for Cybec Electric at Melbourne Theatre Company, Playlist at RedStitch Actors Theatre, Victorian College of the Arts, Australian Theatre for Young People, Periscope Productions, Apocalypse Theatre, and Old 505 Theatre. Elias has been shortlisted for the Screen NSW Emerging Writers’ Incubator, the Next Stage Residency at Melbourne Theatre Company, the National Script Workshop at Playwriting Australia and the Silver Gull Play Award. He is a recipient of the Jim Marks Scholarship, University of Melbourne. He is an alumnus of the Fresh Ink National Mentorship and National Studio at the Australian Theatre for Young People. Elias graduated from a Master of Writing for Performance at the Victorian College of the Arts, and is under commission by Malthouse Theatre.
| Cast Info | 2M |
| Genres | Drama, Australian History, Naturalism / realism |
| Themes | Diverse sexuality themes, LGBTQIA+ themes, LGBTQIA+, Two-hander, Political/Social themes |
| Audiences | Adult |
| Extent | 56 |
| Edition | CTS |
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