CaseWatchlist — stage play
Year2021
StatusPremiered
Watchlist
Green is the new red.
A dark comedy of love, activism and surveillance — where falling for the wrong person can land your whole life on a government list.
Summary of surveillance
Watchlist is a dark comedy and political satire about the moment private life collides with state power. Basil Pepper falls hard for Delia Dengel, an animal rights activist who draws him into the world of climate protest — and, without his knowing it, onto a government surveillance list. As his best friend Roger and his mother Marie scramble to pull him back, every character is forced toward the same impossible choice: silence, dissent or self-interest.
Premiered by the South Australian Playwrights Theatre at Adelaide’s Bakehouse Theatre in June 2021 under director Lisa Harper Campbell, the play turns a love story into a study of who gets watched, who looks away, and what it costs to care out loud. Its poster says it plainly: green is the new red.
The script is published by Currency Press (ISBN 9781760623111) and is available to buy in print, ePub and Mobi — order it directly from Currency Press.
Photographic exhibits
Persons of interest
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Gianluca Noble
as Basil Pepper
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Katherine Sortini
as Delia Dengel
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Katie O'Reilly
as Marie
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Eddie Morrison
as Roger
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Matt Hawkins
as Norman
Operational record
Production
- Bakehouse Theatre, Adelaide — South Australian Playwrights Theatre, 4 June 2021
Operatives — production team
- Lisa Harper Campbell — Director
- Lucy Combe — Producer
- Stephen Dean — Lighting & Technical Design
- Sascha Budimski — Sound Design
- Claire Miyuki Gueri — Stage Manager
Intercepted press
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“Amusing, ambitious, provocative.”
— The Clothesline
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“Brave, bold, agit-prop — an outstanding and challenging piece of theatre.”
— Glam Adelaide
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“Dark and delightful.”
— InDaily