

OCTOPOLIS
By Marek Horn
DATES
May 14 - 24
VENUE
PIP Theatre, Milton
CREATIVES
CAST
Playwright Marek Horn
Director Bronwyn Nayler
​Dramaturg Lachlan Driscoll
Choreographer Sherri Smith
Movement & Intimacy Coach Sherri Smith
Lighting & Video Design Teddy Waddingham
Sound Design Lachlan Driscoll
Stage Manager Libby Harrison
Caroline Sparrow
Dudley Powell
A co-production with PIP Theatre
A play with two actors (and one octopus)
This smart and moving romcom is a fascinating exploration of what makes us human.
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Meet George: professor, octopus expert and…professional hermit? Her most intimate relationship these days is with the clever Frances, an octopus she obsessively studies. Never leaving her cloistered university accommodation, George is content with sunrise yoga and not checking her inbox.
Enter Harry: an anthropologist with big theories and even bigger ambitions. He’s French and a Doctor, so he’s a pretty big deal. His latest idea? A groundbreaking new theory about Frances that could change George’s world forever…
Sparks fly, tanks bubble, and somewhere between the academic rivalry and tangled tentacles, the two of them might just uncover something new about themselves, Frances, and human-kind itself.​​

“This is a romcom that has legs. Strikingly original and highly entertaining... smart, slightly surreal and quietly touching” The Stage
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​“An intricately intellectual piece of theatre, diving headfirst into questions of sentience, religion, grief, and community from a uniquely smart writer” Broadway World
WARNINGS
This production contains strong coarse language, sexual references, and discussions around grief and death
RUN TIME
100 minutes, no interval
ACCESSIBILITY
Click here for access at PIP Theatre
Post-Show Chats
Free post-show discussion and Q&A with the theatre-makers of Octopolis. Come and join the conversation.
Saturday 17 May (After the 7pm performance)
Friday 23 May (After the 7pm performance)