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By Cheryl Threadgold Mockingbird Theatre’s founder Chris Baldock, challenges traditional performance boundaries, treating audiences to innovative theatre experiences. The former Meat Market in North Melbourne is the atmospheric venue for the company’s latest production, Quills, by American playwright Doug Wright, set in 1807 in the French lunatic asylum, Charenton. Now operating as Arts House, the well-preserved 19th century building with meat hooks still protruding from walls, provides the ideal setting for re-creating… Read More

by Antony Steadman A play about the final days of the Marquis De Sade? We know immediately that the piece will be sexually charged, confrontational and debauched. Yes it is all these things, and so much more. Whilst the piece is not immediately loveable, it is certainly enjoyable on a more challenging, thought-provoking level. Chris Baldocks direction is bold and daring. Whilst some of the more intimate scenes are played at opposite… Read More

by Nick Pilgrim Written in 1995 by Doug Wright, Quills is an Obie award – winning, multi – layered, cerebral tug o’ war. The American playwright and screenwriter is also a Pulitzer Prize winner for I Am My Own Wife (2004). His other works of note include Interrogating the Nude (1992) along with the book musicals, Grey Gardens (2006), and Hands on a Hardbody (2011). Based on the final days in detainment… Read More

Macabre. Debauched. Thrilling. Hilarious It’s finally here! Mockingbird Theatre presents the highly anticipated Melbourne premiere of Quills by Doug Wright Directed by Chris Baldock BUY TICKETS HERE 1st – 15th August Meat Market Pavilion, 5 Blackwood Street, North Melbourne, VIC 3051  

Mockingbird Theatre has just cast Jordan in their up and coming production of Quills by Doug Wright, and it is set to be their largest production to date. “Exuberant theatre-making…gory, depraved, revolting and—uh-oh—sentimental. On top of all that, the play has something to say about censorship and what happens when you try to suppress art…Smirky, gross-out fun with a purpose. It’s an amazing show” – Variety Quills is a play about the last days of the Marquis… Read More