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This is her calling.

From local writer Samantha Hill comes this brand-spanking-new comedy thriller of otherworldly proportions! Strap in for an evening of huge laughs, big feelings, and work Christmas parties gone horribly wrong…!

Sloane has been receiving messages from the universe. The Hanging Man tarot card keeps appearing in her library books, her early period is an omen of impending doom, and now there’s a dead bat hanging from the powerlines. All of these signs can only have one possible meaning – it’s time to kill her evil boss and save everyone at the call centre. Obviously.

And just when you think it can’t get any more unhinged, it absolutely does! Darkly hilarious and edge-of-your-seat, Dead Bat on the Night Shift  takes aim at toxic workplaces, hustle culture, and the 9-5, holding no punches and asking – can we ever get a life?

"Extremely clever and maturely takes us down all kinds of deep paths, with great social, political, gender and satirical commentary sparkling through." Theatre Press, For Merry Christmas, Bitches

VENUE

PIP Theatre, Milton

TICKETS

Adult $45
Concession / Student $31
Preview $25
Cheap Wednesday $28

All tickets + $3.30 booking fee

SHOWINGS

Wednesday 26 Aug 6.30pm
Thursday 27 Aug 7pm
Friday 28 Aug 7pm
Saturday 29 Aug 2pm
Saturday 29 Aug 7pm
Wednesday 2 Sep 6.30pm
Thursday 3 Sep 7pm
Friday 4 Sep 7pm
Saturday 5 Sep 2pm
Saturday 5 Sep 7pm

RUNTIME

140 mins, incl 20 minute
interval

CREATIVES

CAST

Playwright Samantha Hill
Director & Designer Lachlan Driscoll
Vision Designer Teddy Waddingham
Lighting Designer Noah Milne
Sound Design & Composition Hannah Page
​Movement Director 
Vivian Hannah Ho
Dramaturgy Emma Churchland
Creative Consultant Minola Theatre

Claire Pearson
Jaxon Norman
Ellen Hardisty
Milan Bjelejac
Clarise Ooi
Jenna Murphy

A co-production with PIP Theatre. This play was commissioned and developed through the Telescope New Writing Program.

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AFTER SHOW

Free chat and Q&A with the cast and crew after the show. Come and join the conversation.

 

Saturday 29 Aug (After the 7pm performance)

Friday 4 Sep (After the 7pm performance)

GETTING HERE

20 Park Road, Milton, Brisbane. Click here for details on location, parking and public transport

Observatory Theatre 2026

Brisbane, QLD, Australia

 

Email: producer@observatorytheatre.com

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We recognise the traditional owners of the sacred land Meanjin, the Jagera and Turrbal peoples, on which we work and create. We acknowledge that this has always been a place of storytelling. We affirm that sovereignty has never been ceded. Now more than ever, this will always be Aboriginal land.

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