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 further from work – into politics and their views across the generational divide, 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.