Sydney Theatre Company Presents BOYS WILL BE BOYS By Melissa Bubnic

Boys will be boys, a Sydney Theatre Company commission at Wharf 2 from 16 April to 9 May, is a bold, risqué new work by Melissa Bubnic, winner of STC's 2010 Patrick White Playwright's Award for her play, Beached. The run has only limited ticket availability remaining and the first tranche of Suncorp Twenties ($20 tickets for every STC performance) for Boys will be boys become available on 7 April 2015.

Danielle Cormack plays Astrid, a currency trader at the top of her game in the dog-eat-dog world of frenzied buying and selling. When a bright young woman, Priya (Sophia Roberts), applies for a junior position, Astrid decides to play mentor. But in the self-serving world of the trade floor, every favour has a price.

Satirising this world of men, Boys will be boys is abrasive and searing as it inverts all expectations of moral certainty. The play features an all-female cast (comprised of Cormack, Roberts, Tina Bursill, Meredith Penman and former STC Resident Zindzi Okenyo), three of whom play men in multiple roles throughout, exploring themes and ideas around gender in a male dominated workplace.

Rattray, STC's 2015 Richard Wherrett fellow, recently directed This House is Mine with Milk Crate Theatre Company and is a former Resident Director at Griffin and Co-Founder of independent company, Arthur. Design is by former STC Resident Designer David Fleischer whose work has included STC's Children of the Sun and Calpurnia Descending. Lighting Designer Ross Graham makes his STC debut while composer and musical director Kelly Ryall takes on the musical interludes punctuating the play.

Cast: Tina Bursill, Danielle Cormack, Zindzi Okenyo, Meredith Penman, Sophia Roberts

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