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Hayloft set to make a splash with refugee comedy

The award-winning company’s first production since relocating to Sydney is a black comedy about the politics of border protection.

13 May 2014

Richard Watts

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Comedy is not usually the first genre that springs to mind when one thinks of independent theatre-makers The Hayloft Project, who are best known for their hard-hitting adaptations of classics such as Seneca’s bloody tragedy Thyestes, and an interrogative retelling of the legend of Oedipus, By Their Own Hands.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts