How well do you know the person at the next desk?
Red Stitch Actors Theatre presents the world premiere of Stop.Rewind from Australian playwright and filmmaker, Melissa Bubnic. Developed through the Red Stitch Writers program responsible for the award-winning production Red Sky Morning, Stop. Rewind is a deft and recognisable comedy with heart that begs the question, is it too late to live the life you’ve always wanted?
As a disparate group of co-workers at a departmental office struggle to hold onto their dreams, we glimpse the series of compromises that has led each to their place in the eclectic community.

Trevor is worried he’s wasted his life. Dim wants to be a musician but he’s been doing this ‘temporary’ gig in administration for 13 months. Heather is perfectly fine, except for being too old and fat to ever have sex again. Tabitha is fine with having sex, only it’s with her married co-worker Grant.
Life continues at its painfully familiar pace until an unexpected event forces the group to reassess their own lives, what they really want, and what they are prepared to sacrifice to get it.

Combining self-narrative and modern modes of communication, Bubnic’s play creates a fascinating theatrical portrait of a group of people who, in talking about themselves and about each other, relate the story of an entire department.
Director, Anne Browning is a Victorian Green Room award nominee for her performance in The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney for Playbox/RQTC. She is also well known for her collaboration with Peter Houghton on The Sax Diaries for Melbourne Fringe and Comedy Festivals in 1999, which won a Fringe Award as well as the Peter Houghton one man play, The Pitch. She is making her directorial debut with Red Stitch.
Stop. Rewindstars Red Stitch ensemble members Andrea Swifte, Ella Caldwell, Olga Makeeva and Tim Potter with special guests Giordano Gangl, Ian Rooney and James Taylor. Set design is by Peter Mumford, Lighting Design is by Stelios Karagiannis, with Sam Santana.
Venue: Red Stitch Actors Theatre Rear, 2 Chapel St, St Kilda
Season: July – August