At What Cost?

Tasmania, now.

Boyd has been walking tightrope for years – balancing responsibilities to Land and People with the simple business of making a living.

But there’s something happening, he can sniff it in the wind. Every year more and more folk are showing up claiming to be Palawa too. Noone’s heard of them until now… Where has this missing mob been all these years? Are they legit? Or are they ‘tick-a-box’? Who decides? And how?

If Boyd’s going to take everyone forward together, they’re going to have to go back, old mob or new, into the island’s knotty past. And they might not like what they find there.

"We’re proud of At What Cost? and pleased to bring it back with the original cast before it goes on a national tour – if you missed out here’s your second chance. Nathan Maynard’s story of Country and competing histories opened some eyes and set off a few arguments. We loved its oomph, and how it asked us all to think about a very contemporary Australian issue." – Eamon Flack (Artistic Director)

★★★★ The Sydney Morning Herald

★★★★ 1/2 Limelight

“Powerful” The Australian

“Luke Carrol is superb as his own one man mob” - Aboriginal Art Directory

“A great political tragedy grows out of comic domestic beginnings in this slow burning play by Nathan Maynard…like all great tragedies, it builds towards pity and terror in its ending” - The Australian

Writer and Associate Director: Nathan Maynard

Director: Isaac Drandic

Set Designer: Jocob Nash

Costume Designer and Set Realiser: Keerthi Subramanyam

Lighting Designer: Chloe Ogilvie

Composer: Brendon Boney

Sound Designer: David Bergman

Cast: Luke Carroll, Sandy Greenwood, Alex Malone and Ari Maza Long