A theatrical production examining the harmful effects of problem gambling is coming to Thomastown.
Commissioned by Kingston council in 2021, Enough is Enough is written and directed by award winning Melbourne playwright, Kieran Carroll.
It’s set around a bayside hotel which has both the TAB and the pokies.
Dangerously, the hotel is open until 5am.
Four addicted gamblers from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds find themselves trapped inside the worlds of the hotel. Their lives unravel over the course of the play.
The four characters are watched over by a bar worker, a non-gambler, who herself is torn emotionally with the work of seeing other lives ruined by gambling. She needs a job but feels complicit in their suffering.
A gambling counsellor completes the casting giving the audience insights into a Victorian government history of gambling, coping techniques and
the ways the general public can recognize when people are gambling and suffering privately.
Whittlesea’s Gary Murray is among the actors in this performance.
The play will be held at Thomastown library on February 29 from 6pm.
Details: ow.ly/8KMy50QATTm
