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  • 2025
  • The Platypus
The Platypus
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bfplatypus25 The Platypus Brisbane Festival, QPAC Theatre The Platypus

10 - 13 Sep 2025
Cremorne Theatre
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1 hour 30 minutes
no interval, subject to change without notice

Overview

Multiple genres, two actors, one black comedy, and possibly a platypus … 

The Platypus is a strange creature. It’s composed of odds and ends, as though evolution got tired one afternoon and stopped paying attention to what it was doing. It seems wrong, strangely put together, a curiosity – just like this play about the messy end of a relationship.

Written and directed by well-known actor Francis Greenslade (Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell, Winners and Losers) and performed by John Leary (The Good Place, Glitch, The Letdown, Upper Middle Bogan) and Rebecca Bower (The Spooky Files, Offspring, Wentworth), The Platypus is a genre-busting delight – an outrageously clever, wildly entertaining play about theatre, relationships, and the roles we all play.  

The Platypus is part of Brisbane Festival. Find out more here.

  • There’s a bit of Shakespeare, a bit of Oscar Wilde and even some Sondheim-inspired musical theatre ... It reflects the struggles of a very recognisable family, with plenty of Easter eggs for theatre nerds thrown in.
    Francis Greenslade
  • ★★★★★
    The Platypus is theatre at its very best: thought-provoking, emotional, often hilariously funny, and relentlessly entertaining.
    Glam Adelaide
  • ★★★★⯪
    Funny, moving and rewarding.
    The Advertiser (Adelaide)

Important Information

Warning

This production contains smoking on stage, adult themes and coarse language. This show contains a strict lockout period.

Age Recommendation

This production is suitable for those 15 years and over.

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