Hostage

It's funny what a woman will reveal to another woman when she's under pressure. Until now, 10.23am on a Wednesday morning, no-one had the faintest idea that Julia had made a move on Zoe's boyfriend at the staff Christmas party. None of them knew about young Lucy's unfulfilled dream, or that Barb was secretly planning to retire - and who could have had any inkling that Marg, stalwart employee and doting grandmother, would drop a bombshell like that? But at 10.23am, on what started as just another day at the office, life for Julia, Marg, Barb, Zoe and Lucy comes to a standstill when Patty walks in. Now, what to do with her?

Written by popular Melbourne playwright Cerise de Gelder, and with a stellar all-female cast featuring Charmaine Gorman, Natasha Broadstock, Del Jordan, Ruth Katerelos, Cosima Gilbert and Marli van der Bijl, HOSTAGE is a funny, fast-paced and sharply insightful new play about the friendships between women, the invisible ties that bind us, and how these are stretched in a crisis. When the chips are down, can you really expect your best friend to forgive you for running off to Noosa with her husband? If you're looking for the ultimate Girls' Night Out at this year's Fringe, HOSTAGE could be your show.

Directed by Elizabeth Walley, produced by Clare Mendes, stage managed by Barbara Toohey and presented by Melbourne Writers' Theatre – proudly taking brand new Victorian plays from page to stage since 1982.