Torch the Place: MTC NEXTSTAGE ORIGINAL - Softcover

Benjamin Law (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052287665X ISBN 13: 9780522876659

Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

Teresa's mum finds it impossible to let anything go-from grudges to household objects. She thinks of her home as a museum full of irreplaceable treasures. But she's not really a curator, she's a hoarder, and her house is enough to give Marie Kondo heart palpitations. When her kids return home to celebrate her 60th birthday, she's over the moon to have the family back together. But this isn't a reunion. It's an intervention.

Celebrated writer Benjamin Law is one of this country's brightest literary stars. For his hysterically funny and moving stage premiere, Law employs his effortless self-deprecating wit to spark joy in the clutter and find truth in those crazy moments that bring families closer together.

Commissioned through MTC's NEXT STAGE Writers' Program with the support of our Playwrights Giving Circle Donors, The Ian Potter Foundation, Naomi Milgrom Foundation, The Myer Foundation, Malcolm Robertson Foundation and The University of Melbourne.

About this title

About the Author

Benjamin Law is creator and co-writer of three seasons of the award-winning SBS TV series The Family Law, based on his 2010 memoir. He has also written Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East (2012), the Quarterly Essay Moral Panic 101 (2017), and was editor of the anthology Growing Up Queer in Australia (2019). He co-wrote Shit Asian Mothers Say (2014) with his sister Michelle, and a sex/relationships advice book called Law School (2017) with his mum Jenny. Law co-hosts ABC RN's weekly pop culture show Stop Everything and co-hosts online TV show That Startup Show. You can also catch him on Q&A (ABC), The Drum (ABC), The Project (Ten), Filthy Rich and Homeless (SBS) and the ABC's two-part ABC feature documentary on Chinese-Australian history, Waltzing the Dragon. He has written for over 50 publications, including The Monthly, frankie, Good Weekend, The Guardian, The Australian, Monocle and The Australian Financial Review. In 2019 he was named one of the Asian-Australian Leadership Summit's 40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australians, winning in the Arts, Culture & Sport category.Law is based in Sydney. He is a Plan Australia ambassador and Story Factory board member.

Edition details

• Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052287665X
• ISBN 13: 9780522876659
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277