Checkout

August, 2010

PRODUCTION

Australia | Children's Theatre | Suitable for general audiences

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Playwright:
Polyglot

Director:
Sue Giles

Details:

Polyglot Theatre’s Check Out! is a wickedly funny work of theatre about the consumer culture bonanza. Set in a supermarket, Check Out! follows the remarkable adventures of tantrum-throwing Baby who is determined to get what she wants. Filled with puppetry at its most inventive and cheeky, Baby soon meets shelf products which come to life, and Speedy who helps her discover that you need more than just stuff to see you through.

Fast paced and physical, Check Out! is a very funny and ever-so-scathing take on parent/child relationships and the market power invested in children. Designed as a cure for affluenza, Check Out! is a muzak-filled slapstick puppet tale which will make sure that a trip to the supermarket will never be the same again.

Check Out! has been one of Polyglot’s most successful productions, touring across Australia and in 2009 playing at the Shanghai International Children’s Theatre Festival, where it won the award for Excellent Production.

For kids under 12 and their families.

‘A cautionary tale… with lots of the mess and yuck and screaming farce that kids love and Polyglot Theatre is so deft at’
Alison Barclay, The Herald Sun

'…it was impossible not to laugh'
Caitlin Crowley, The Groggy Squirrel

PRICES:
Adults at Children's Prices
Standard: $19.90
Groups of 6 or more: $18.40
Groups of 20 or more: $15.90

Infants under 2 (Babes in Arms)do not require a ticket so long as they are not occupying a seat.

School and vacation care groups get 1 free teacher for every 20 tickets purchased. Please contact the Box Office directly on 9905 1111.

Running Time: 60 mins (includes Q&A and photo time)

Please note that there is no physical Box Office at the George Jenkins Theatre except for one hour prior to performances. For all enquiries, or if you experience difficulties booking online, please contact the Monash Box Office on 9905 1111

Start time:
9.30am

End time:
12noon

Bookings Email Address:
boxoffice@monash.edu.au

Bookings Name:
Monash University Boxoffice

Bookings Phone Number:
99051111

Ticket Prices:
$19.90

Website:
www.monash.edu.au/monart

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