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★★★★ 1/2 The Sydney Morning Herald

★★★★ Limelight

★★★★ Time Out Sydney

★★★★ — Audrey Journal

“…intimate and epic, poignant and powerful. The play is an achievement of the first order.”

- Judges’ comments, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards

“…It runs for just short of an hour, but the credibility of the writing and intimacy of the production makes every minute matter; it shows us something painfully, perfectly, recognisably alive.”

- Cassie Tongue, The Sydney Morning Herald

“It is a passionate and deeply truthful piece of writing from Jamieson Brown.”

- Suzy Wrong, Time Out Sydney

Director & Dramaturg Declan Greene
Designer Emma White
Composer & Sound Designer David Bergman
With Joseph Althouse, Steve Le Marquand

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.

In 2021, Griffin Theatre Company left its home at the SBW Stables and wandered down the road to the real Green Park. Outside the rotunda, audience members were outfitted with a set of headphones. And together, they eavesdropped on playwright Elias Jamieson Brown’s finely wrought Darlinghurst noir. To everyone else, the two men talking on a bench might not have looked like much. But in the gloom of the setting sun, audiences experienced a dangerous psycho-sexual collision… in a very public place.

Awards and Recognition

** Green Park was developed and publicly presented at Melbourne Theatre Company’s Cybec Electric, 2019 with Director John Kachoyan Dramaturg Chris Mead and Performers Peter Houghton and Lachie Pringle