A Love Story for the 21st Century

Sex with Strangers explores the complex relationship between authors and their adoring fans and the tensions between old and new literature; old and new love.

A play that makes timely and insightful observations about the foibles of first impressions, ‘Sex with Strangers’ delves into the complexities of love and relationships in the digital age, and the Gen X – Gen Y divide.
Samuel Johnson (Secret Life of Us and Rush) and Tottie Goldsmith (Starting out and Prisoner) star in this dark, sexy and funny play about the lives of two people equally capable of ambition, kindness and cruelty.

Trapped in a rural writer’s retreat by a snowstorm, serious writer turned professor, Olivia is settling down to write her second novel. In from the snow walks Ethan, a brash, handsome, highly successful, Gen-Y blogger with aspirations of literary legitimacy. Olivia succumbs to his obvious charm and seemingly poetic soul. But can love really bloom between an old-school book lover and a man whose publicity-generating exaggerated tell-all memoir “Sex with Strangers” chronicles his rambunctious sex-ploits on an internet blog?

First staged by Chicago’s Steppenwolf theatre in 2011, and more recently at the Sydney Theatre Company and off-Broadway, this is story telling at its best. Sex with Strangers makes timely and insightful observations about the foibles of first impressions and about love and relationships in the digital age.

How far will Olivia and Ethan go to get what they want?

‘dark, sexy, funny’ -  New York Times

‘sweet, funny and playful’ - Sunday Telegraph

‘… an arresting, involving and shrewdly self-aware new play’ The Australian

 ‘… rarely does a story so deftly encapsulate the divide between Gen X and Gen Y’ - Newsweek

 ‘a thoughtful, tender drama about writers, books, love, ambition, relationships and social interaction in the internet age’ Chicago Tribune

Burrinja Theatre
Wednesday 10 June at 8pm

 

Adult $36
Concession $32
Jarmbi $30
Group 6+$26
15% Early Bird Discount until Feb 28