Alaska is a confronting look at how ideas of race, sex and power have an explosive effect on a group of young people working together in a multiplex cinema.

Playwright DC Moore’s disturbing and unflinching work premiered at the Royal Court Theatre London in 2007 and was described bu the UK's Independent as, “a searing and uncomfortable probing of prejudice in all its forms, from the offensive jokes and lazy stereotyping which pepper idle conversation to the out-and-out racist rants of the play’s anti-hero.” 

Frank is 24 and has dropped out of Uni. He knows he’s better than his job in a cinema kiosk – and pretty much everything and everyone else. So when Mamta joins the staff and quickly becomes his boss, Frank is definitely not pleased. How can a Paki tell him what to do?

Director Janice Muller says: “Alaska will get you thinking. It’s the kind of play that makes you question your own beliefs and morals. It’s a story that will resonate with contemporary Australia, where racism still rears its ugly head with violent consequences.”

With Kristy Best, Matt Hyde, André Jewson, Hannah Levien, Johann Walraven.

11 August – 28 August, Tuesday – Saturday 8pm, Saturday 2pm, Sunday 5pm

Tickets: $24-29; Preview Wednesday 11 August, 8pm $20
ATYP Studio 1, Pier 4/5, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay
Bookings: (02) 9270 2400 or online at ATYP.