Multiple Bad Things at Malthouse Theatre

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Wed 29 May 2024 - Sun 09 Jun 2024

Thought-provoking and challenging, Back to Back Theatre's newest production pulls at the heartstrings. Multiple Bad Things highlights how disenfranchised and vulnerable people can be treated with contempt and judgment.



Performed by Bron Batten, Simon Laherty, Sarah Mainwaring, and Scott Price, the production is set in a placeless warehouse at the end of the world, where three employees approach a possibly futile task. Struggling to work together, they grapple with questions of inclusion and equity. They are forced to test the limits of their bodies, their cooperation, and their capacity to care. Civility slips, bad behaviour escalates, and reality distorts.

Multiple Bad Things is directed by Tamara Searle and Ingrid Voorendt. Ingrid reflects "Our perspectives are shaped by our boundaries. We see the world from our place in it. We secure our boundaries by stating our place and our perspective over and over again, cementing our identities and, perhaps, trapping ourselves inside them. To make work together, collaboratively, we have to be prepared to shift our boundaries, to open our borders to other ways of thinking, seeing, experiencing, and voicing. We have to recognise the limitations of a singular perspective. We have to leave the safety of the familiar. Different perspectives create different maps."

In this new work, Back to Back Theatre invited new voices into the devising room and Zoë Barry created the score. Anna Cordingley’s set design demands the actors’ physical participation to reach its manifestation.



Back to Back Theatre is a global leader for challenging the assumptions of what is possible on the stage, and in ourselves. For over 30 years, their ensemble of performers has created epic and arresting theatre that weaves together the personal, political, and cosmic.

This Melbourne premiere production is showing at The Malthouse at 113 Sturt Street, Southbank. Tickets are available here.

Please be advised there are adult themes, coarse language, partial nudity and sexual references.

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