our monster’s name is jerry

Theatre Works, 2025

Co-Presented with Geelong Arts Centre, and supported by City of Melbourne and Creative Australia

‘Sometimes family chooses you’

After another unsuccessful round of IVF, young couple Lou and Maud are broke. Things take an unexpected turn when they inherit a house from an estranged relative, but they struggle to assimilate in their eerily pristine new neighbourhood. Made worse by the presence of a monster living inside their home. A monster they name Jerry.

Audiences are invited on a wild and nostalgic ride full of spooks, heart, and slime. This genre-warping work explores the terror of planning for the future in an increasingly frightening world, the monsters we wrestle with and the lengths we’ll go to, to keep them at bay.

Written by Amy May Nunn
Directed by Alanah Guiry
Assistant Direction by Kimberly Summer
Produced by Danielle Goder and Flick
Sound design and Composition by Robbie Divine
Set and costume design by Savanna Wegman
Lighting design by Thomas Roach
Movement Direction by Amelia Jean O’Leary
Production Management by Jemma Law
Stage managed by Stephanie Lee
PR by Sassy Red Productions

WITH
Tomas Parrish, Emma Jevons, Laura Jane Turner, Amanda LaBonte.

DURATION 70 minutes
Recommended for audiences over 15 years

Theatre Works
14 Acland Street, St. Kilda
July 27 - Aug 4, 7.30pm