The Playground Theatre Presents...
RATKING
08th NOV - 09th NOV
Created & Performed by The Lab Rats: Anita Brokmeier, Kate Taylor Hunter, Felipe Jara, Devaki Rajendran, Claudia Shnier and Chloe Shyan
Voice Over: Nathan Gregory
Original 2024 Development: The Lab Rats, Eliza Jean Scott and Nathan Gregory
Special thanks to Ramon Ayres and Eygló Belafonte (Ephemeral Ensemble), Lesley Ewen, Henry McGrath, Dan Sherer and Ian Morgan
Corporate ambition. Imperial decadence. Survival instinct. We’ve been here before. We’ll be here again.
What do office workers, Roman emperors, and rats have in common? They rise. They claw. They collapse.
RATKING is a punch-in-the-face response to the question of who we are when we have power... and who we are when we don’t.
Behind the office wall, a rat colony breeds and starves. In the cutthroat world of a tech start-up, workers scramble for promotion. In ancient Rome, blood boils beneath the marble as family turns against family.
Worlds blur. Bodies distort. The cycle repeats.
Darkly comic and visually charged, RATKING is a high-energy spectacle of ambition, seduction, and collapse. When the cloud bursts, who will survive the fall?
Join the race.
BOOKING INFORMATION
Duration: 55 minutes.
Interval: n/a
Genre: Political and darkly comedic ensemble.
Content Warnings: Depiction and description of sexual and domestic violence, birth trauma, coarse language, flashing lights, loud noise.
Accessibility: n/a
Recommended for: 14+