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Artwork for Do Not Pass Go
Artwork for Do Not Pass Go
Artwork for Do Not Pass Go
Artwork for Do Not Pass Go
Artwork for Do Not Pass Go
Artwork for Do Not Pass Go
Do Not Pass Go

14 Feb — 28 Mar 2026

Southbank Theatre, The Lawler

An oddly tender dark comedy set amid the soul-sucking grind of modern corporate culture, from one of the most exciting voices in contemporary theatre.

Approx. 1 hour and 20 minutes, with no interval.

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‘McClory and Prince together are a powerhouse.’

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‘It’s extraordinary.’

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‘Nuanced and powerful performances.’

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‘Large existential questions are dealt with humorously and poignantly.’

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ABOUT THE SHOW

Laced with acerbic humour, Do Not Pass Go turns hustle culture inside out to ask: when the system is built to break you, what’s left to hold onto?

Flux and Penny are colleagues whiling away their lives in the nondescript purgatory of a workplace no-one seems to run, doing a job no-one can explain, in a system neither of them really believe in. Clocked on, but gradually checking out. As their conversations drift away from work – into politics, their personal lives, and whether any of it still matters – their hot takes cool to something closer to connection. Together, they follow the precarious path to ‘work friends’, searching for common ground in a world that feels increasingly broken.

Since debuting Hungry Ghosts in 2018, screenwriter and playwright Jean Tong (Heartbreak High, Flat Earthers: The Musical) has cemented their place as one of the most exciting contemporary voices in Australian writing.


Commissioned and developed through Melbourne Theatre Company's NEXT STAGE Writers’ Program, with the support of our Playwrights Giving Circle.



Accessibility

  • Wheelchair Accessible

  • Hearing Assistance

  • Audio Described

  • Tactile Tour

  • Open Captioning

  • Closed Captioning

  • Auslan Interpreted

Performance Type Performance Date(s)
Audio Described
by Vision Australia 		Saturday 7 March at 1.30pm
Tuesday 10 March at 7pm
Tactile Tour
at venue 		Saturday 7 March at 1.30pm (Tactile tour commences at 12.30pm)
Open Captioning
via screen 		Saturday 14 March at 1.30pm
Closed Captioning
via GoTheatrical App 		Saturday 14 March at 1.30pm
Auslan Interpreted More information here.
Artwork for Belinda McClory

Belinda McClory

Penny

Belinda is a VCA graduate who has worked professionally across all mediums for 35 years. Her Melbourne Theatre Company performances include Cosi, Di And Viv And Rose, The Waiting Room, Queen Lear, The Ghost Writer, Boy Gets Girl, Frozen, Proof, Sweet Bird Of Youth, The Rover and This Old Man Comes Rolling Home. Other theatre credits include This Is Living, Because the Night, Revolt. She. Said. Revolt Again, Edward ll, Dance Of Death, Pompeii LA and The Trial (Malthouse Theatre); Gross Und Klein, The City, Holy Day, Concussion, Emergency Sex (Sydney Theatre Company); Love Me Tender (Belvoir/Griffin Theatre Company); The Grief Trilogy (VIMH/La Mama); Romeo & Julie, Feather In The Web, Splendour, Hir (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre); Things I Know To Be True (Theatreworks). Her film work includes Sweet Milk Lake, The Matrix, redball, Mullet and Hotel De Love. She co-wrote and starred in the feature films darklovestory, Acolytes, X and Turkey Shoot. Belinda has won a Green Room Award and a Helpmann Award for her theatre work.

Artwork for Ella Prince

Ella Prince

Flux

Ella Prince (they/them) is a British/Australian actor. They trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London (BA Acting). Their theatre credits include Henry V, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Comedy of Errors (Bell Shakespeare); A Room of One’s Own (Belvoir); Family Values, You’ve Got Mail (Griffin Theatre Company); Girls in Boys Cars (Riverside Theatres); Hot Tub, P.O.V (25A); Hedda Gabler, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing (KXT); Chorus, 4.48 Psychosis, The Shadow Box (Old Fitz Theatre). Film credits include Oi! (MIFF) and Last Night (TEDx). Ella is a proud member of MEAA.

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Jean Tong

Writer

Jean Tong is a Naarm-based writer, dramaturg, director, and Associate Artist with Melbourne Theatre Company. For theatre, Jean’s writing credits include: the critically acclaimed Flat Earthers: The Musical (Griffin Theatre Company/Hayes Theatre co); Hungry Ghosts (Melbourne Theatre Company); Green Room award nominee Romeo is Not the Only Fruit. Their directing work includes Dying: A Memoir (Melbourne Theatre Company); Caught (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre) and Oh No! Satan Stole My Pineal Gland! (Melbourne Fringe). For screen, Jean’s writing credits include Heartbreak High S2 (Netflix/Fremantle), Safe Home (SBS/Kindling Pictures), Erotic Stories (SBS/Lingo Pictures), and 100% Wolf S2 (ABC). They were the script co-ordinator for New Gold Mountain (SBS/Goalpost) and are currently developing original works for film and television with Photoplay, SBS and Screen Australia. Jean was the inaugural 2023 Melbourne Theatre Company NEXT STAGE Fellow, and the Belvoir Theatre Philip Parson’s Writing Fellow in 2020. In 2025, Jean was selected by Australians in Film and Screen Australia to take part in their Talent Gateway program.

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Katy Maudlin

Director

Katy Maudlin is an award-winning director with experience in Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. She has directed numerous notable productions, including Elena Kats-Chernin's opera IPHIS, which received multiple Green Room awards, including Best Opera Production. Prominent directing credits include Meet Me At Dawn and SLAP. BANG. KISS. (Melbourne Theatre Company); Hells Gates (GAC & The Space Company); The Children’s Bach and IPHIS (Lyric Opera); Tap Head (NZ International Comedy Festival/BATS); Right Now (Red Stitch Actors' Theatre); AntigoneX (Theatre Works); Giant Teeth (Auckland Theatre Company); The Last Ten Minutes of History (La Mama/VCA). Katy has undertaken major international secondments with Katie Mitchell (Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera) and Oliver Frljić (Our Violence, Your Violence, Mladinsko & Croatian National Theatre). She has held key artistic development roles, including Graduate Director at Red Stitch Actors' Theatre (2017), the Besen Family Artist Program at Malthouse Theatre (2019), and Melbourne Theatre Company's Women in Theatre Program (2020).

Artwork for Jacob Battista

Jacob Battista

Set & Costume Designer

Jacob Battista is a Melbourne-based theatre designer and practitioner. Jacob completed a Bachelor of Production at the Victorian College of the Arts. Design credits include The Almighty Sometimes, A Very Jewish Christmas Carol and Admissions (Melbourne Theatre Company); Job, Honour, Flake, A Simple Act of Kindness, Grace, Iphigenia in Splott, Love, Love, Love, Jumpers for Goalposts, Belleville and Out Of The Water (Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre); Tarzan (James Terry Collective) Samson et Dalilia and La Boheme (Melbourne Opera); The Children’s Bach (Lyric Opera of Melbourne); Rhinoceros (Spinning Plates Co); Driftwood, the Musical (Umbrella Productions); Hand to God, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown and Bad Jews (Vass Theatre Group); Rust and Bone (La Mama Theatre); Burn This (fortyfivedownstairs); Songs for a New World (Blue Saint); Therese Raquin (Dirty Pretty Theatre); Carrie The Musical (Ghost Light); and as associate set designer on Bernhardt/Hamlet and Shakespeare in Love (Melbourne Theatre Company). Jacob is a member of the Red Stitch Ensemble and his work has been nominated for five Green Room Awards across multiple categories.

Artwork for Harrie Hogan

Harrie Hogan

Lighting Designer

Harrie Hogan is a lighting designer working across theatre, circus, musical theatre and experimental performance. She grew up in Sydney before completing a Bachelor's Degree at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2019. Her recent design credits include Much Ado About Nothing, World Problems (Melbourne Theatre Company) Honour (Red Stitch Actors' Theatre, 2025); Of The Land on Which We Meet (Na Djinang Circus, 2025); Milk + Blood (fortyfivedownstairs, 2024). She is also an ongoing design collaborator with theatre collective Pony Cam, most recently for The Orchard (Malthouse Theatre, 2025). She has been nominated for three Green Room Awards for her work on kerosene, SIRENS and Grace and her designs have been featured in state festivals and toured overseas. Harrie is a keen collaborator and proud to be counted amongst the growing number of women in her field.

Artwork for Marco Cher

Marco Cher

Composer & Sound Designer

Marco Cher is an artist working with sound to explore contemporary culture, expression and experience. They are a constant collaborator and deviser working in live performance contexts. Select compositions and sound designs include: The Removalists, English, Laurinda (Melbourne Theatre Company); Complexity of Belonging (Melbourne Theatre Company/Chunky Move); Super Discount (Back to Back Theatre/Sydney Theatre Company); Lady Eats Apple (Back to Back Theatre); Homo Pentecostus, Monsters, KBOX and I am a Miracle (Malthouse Theatre); Nayikia A Dancing Girl (Belvoir Theatre); Flesh Mirror (Rebecca Jensen and Weave Movement Theatre); Mohini and Narasimha (Raina Peterson); We All Know What’s Happening (Samara Hersch and Lara Thoms). Recent awards include The Venice Biennale Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre, the International Ibsen Award with Back to Back Theatre, and Green Room awards for Composition and Sound Design (I am a Miracle, Siren Dance), Visual Design (Mohini), Technical Achievement (…Derelict in Uncharted Space…) and Innovation in Site Specific Work (MASS).

Artwork for Amy Cater

Amy Cater

Intimacy Coordinator

Amy Cater is part of the first cohort of qualified Intimacy Coordinator practitioners, training and working since 2018 when the profession first arrived in Australia. Previous stage works include Rebecca, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cost of Living, Is God Is, Seventeen, Jacky, Cyrano, Sunday, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Fun Home, As You Like It (Melbourne Theatre Company); Oscar (The Australian Ballet); and &Juliet (Michael Cassel Group). Selected screen credits include Love Me, The Newsreader, The Rooster, Bad Behaviour, The Clearing, Safe Home, Swift St, Sleeping Dogs, Erotic Stories, Better Man, Inside and Exposure. Amy has 20 years’ experience working with sexuality, embodiment, consent and intimacy; specifically within the adult industry, client therapy and education spaces. Amy was a director/senior photographer of ethical erotica for 4 years. She is a qualified psychosomatic therapist, sexological bodyworker and somatic sex educator. Amy has a trained background in theatre, dance and the performing arts. Amy mentors and consults on sexuality and gender best practice. Her work in LGBTQIA+ advocacy and education is a key component of her cultural influence in the Intimacy Coordinator industry.

Artwork for Pippa Wright

Pippa Wright

Stage Manager

Artwork for Jenny Le

Jenny Le

Assistant Stage Manager

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