Bobbin Up - Fri Apr 17, Sat Apr 18 & Sun Apr 19
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A play by Nick Enright, adapted by Anthony Skuse, based on the novel by Dorothy HewettSydney, 1957. The whistle blows at the Jumbuck Spinning Mills and fifteen women clock on for another day — spinning, sweating, and scraping by on breadline wages. But when the shift ends, the mill doors open onto something else entirely: the neon-lit streets, the journey home, and the rich, complicated lives each woman carries beyond the factory floor.
Bobbin Up weaves together the voices of a remarkable chorus of working women — mothers, dreamers, survivors — whose lives intersect on the mill floor and fan out into the city beyond. When a mass layoff threatens them all, their individual struggles become one collective fight.
Raw, vivid, and unmistakably Australian, Bobbin Up is a celebration of working-class women whose stories have too rarely been told.
Directed by Anthony Skuse, starring Antonia Cooper, Binh Doan, Cathy Tropiano, Linda Zhang, Matthew Dell, Mel Jensen, Pattara Bamroongpruk and Paula Williams
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Friday 17 April 2026 - Sunday 19 April 2026 (UTC+10)Location
Darlo Drama
Level 1, 16-18 Oxford Square, Darlinghurst NSW 2011
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