FINISHED – WIN a Double Pass to Jack Maggs by State Theatre Company South Australia

Who wants to score a Double Pass for Jack Maggs by State Theatre Company South Australia? I have a Double Pass to give away and want you along as my guests for the night. All you need to do is fill in the form below and we will randomly draw the names to come along to the performance. Winners will be notified by email and by video on our Facebook page. Thanks to our friends at State Theatre Company South Australia for the tickets.

Date: Friday 22 November, 2024
Show time: 7.30pm
Venue: Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA
Competition draw date: Monday 18 November 2024, 6.00pm (Live on Facebook)

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About the show:

Step back in time to 19th-century London, where intrigue and mystery mix in the world premiere of Jack Maggs. 

Peter Carey’s best-selling and Miles Franklin Award-winning “reworking” of Charles Dickens’ canonical novel Great Expectations, Jack Maggs comes alive on stage in a sweeping new adaptation by South Australian playwright Samuel Adamson, renowned for his successes at England’s National Theatre with Southwark Fair and The Light Princess with Tori Amos.

The story follows the enigmatic ex-convict Jack Maggs (Carey’s version of Magwitch) returning to London from Australia and embarking on a relentless quest to find his ‘son’ Henry Phipps, who has mysteriously disappeared. Maggs soon becomes entangled in the web of Phipps’ neighbour, Percy Buckle and his bizarre household, where he makes a deal with young novelist and “mesmerist” Tobias Oates (or is it Charles Dickens himself?) to find Phipps. Oates has other plans though, and in Maggs, might just find the perfect inspiration for his new novel.

Unveil a world of ambition, secrets and unexpected alliances, with a cast of beloved and celebrated South Australian actors including Mark Saturno as Jack Maggs, James Smith as Tobias Oates, Jacqy Philips and recent NIDA graduate hotshot Ahunim Abebe.

Under the masterful direction of Geordie Brookman, Jack Maggs will take audiences on a strange and surprising slither around the Old Dart with a cavalcade of dazzling Dickensian characters all in search of the truth, in the most exciting page to stage adaption since The Dictionary of Lost Words.