Same Time Next Week
a puppet musical by Nick Pages-Oliver & Scott McArdle
Recommended for people aged 15+
The work contains coarse language, themes around death/cancer, and a puppet sex scene.
Laughter really is the best medicine – a musical about friendship, grief, and the world’s most popular game
When one of their own is diagnosed with cancer, four friends set out on an impossible quest: make time every week to play Dungeons & Dragons.
Based on a true story, Same Time Next Week is a puppet musical about the joy of play, the healing power of laughter, and the stories we tell together.
Mark has leukaemia.
Between chemo sessions, he has only one wish: to play Dungeons & Dragons. Enter Drew, Digby, and Liz – his loyal friends who have no clue what they’re doing. Together they dive into the world’s most beloved game and are forced to face goblins, necromancers, sexy lizards, and their own mortality – one week at a time.
But as Mark’s prognosis grows worse each week, they fi nd themselves having to say goodbye not only to the world they’ve built together but to the friend who brought them together.
Can the magic of storytelling defy the odds or will the dice roll against them one last time?
The winner of 8 Performing Arts WA Awards (including Best Production, Outstanding, New Work, and Outstanding Direction) – Same Time Next Week is a love letter to the friends we lean on and the importance of recapturing the love of play as adults.
Filled with DIY stage trickery, toe-tapping songs, and an ensemble of Perth’s best puppeteers – this puppet musical will have you crying with laughter whether you’re a lover of D&D or a total newbie.
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“Same Time Next Week is the most expertly crafted and excellently executed show the Blue Room has hosted, ever”
– Magazine 6000
“McArdle et al. have done what no other documentary, TV show, movie, or Saturday morning cartoon has been able to do: They’ve opened a huge window into the process of playing the game as well as the imaginary fantasy world evoked through gameplay”
– Perth Arts Live
“The performances by the cast are all stellar, with no one truly outshining the others, although Amberley Cull does have her juicy diva moments playing the undead villain”
– X-Press Magazine
“The production is incredibly sharp, witty and well-timed, a credit to the writing and the cast, who very much had their hands full with acting, singing and puppeteering”
– Theatre Travels