Don is an executive. His mind should be on his firm’s latest line of garden
sprinklers. But his wife has just told him she’s leaving to have tantric sex in
Tuscany. When he tells his three children, they aren’t surprised; they are a
self-absorbed trio only interested in Dad’s money. The children will put up with
Dad quitting his job. The children will put up with Dad wreaking havoc with
their private lives. They will even put up with Dad trying to salvage his family.
But when Don bets everything he owns on a horse race, what will three selfish
twenty-somethings do then?
The Give and Take sends up a generation that is both idealistic and ruthlessly
pragmatic, with a wry eye turned on their wayward parents.
Premiered at Sydney Theatre Company 2005
