GPAC and Malthouse Thetare presents

A Commercial Farce

by Peter Houghton

From the formidable comic pen of The Pitch and The China Incident comes Peter Houghton's new hilarious take on theatrical farce a time-honoured tradition of the theatre…A Commercial Farce.

Bill drives a clapped out '68 Jag and wears second hand clothes. He's an experienced theatre director on the verge of a nervous breakdown. There are less than 24 hours until the curtains go up and this production is unravelling… fast. Enter Jules, the latest fresh-faced television star of Murder Squad.

He's the name that's going to sell the tickets. Without him the show is doomed. But when Jules fails to perform the simplest of acting tasks, Bill's raison d'être becomes teaching his young pupil the very meaning of farce.