WET SEASON RESIDENCY
The Wet Season Residency curated by Sean Guy activates Brown’s Mart through the quietest part of the year with collaborative workshops, writing developments, and structured creative sessions. If you are interested in developing your storytelling craft and networking with other performers, this is for you!
"The Community" - play reading
18 March, 6pm
Brown's Mart Studio
$15 / $10
A comedy-of-errors about crazy neighbours, shopping centres, and the funniest thing of all: the cost-of-living crisis.
“The Community” by Sean Guy is a brand-new play developed as part of Brown’s Mart’s 2025 Build Up program with the dramaturgical support of celebrated playwright Albert Belz. Please join us for a rehearsed reading of this new work as part of the Wet Season Residency!
Welcome to rural Edwardsville, population: not many. If you’re visiting, you may already know that multinational corporate giant “Nine Mart” just opened their first shopping centre here, finally bringing us into the 21st century!
Soon, the impacts of this begin to show. Community groups cancel sessions, local businesses shut down, and families are forced to take on second jobs. Minimum wages are stretched further and further, while the bigger business seems to profit only the CEO, who visits once every few months, in between buying investment properties.
Is it too late to get things back the way they were?
Inspired by Sean’s own experiences and frustrations – especially with online retailers that undercut Australian industries, and duopolies that force both consumers and suppliers to accept their terms – this hilarious and surprising satire is also a reminder about what supporting local really means.
"The Commandments" - play reading
10 April, 6pm
Brown's Mart Studio
$15 / $10
Thou Shalt Not Consider the 10 Commandments a Personal Challenge.
When David’s religious father is injured in sudden, shocking circumstances, he feels the faith of a good man is being tested, and decides to test God in return by breaking the ten commandments.
“The Commandments” by Sean Guy is a brand-new play written with the proud support of Arts NT, and dramaturgical support of celebrated playwright Albert Belz. It is an exploration of faith in the 21st century; what it means to believe in something greater than yourself even when you struggle with religion, and how fellowship can help us through the most difficult circumstances.
At times darkly funny, this story also touches on grief, family, acceptance, friendship, and love, inspired by some of Sean’s own experiences growing up in various church systems, and the long-term benefits – and questions – and sometimes concerns – that have lingered.
We invite you to join us for this rehearsed play reading as part of Sean’s official Wet Season Residency, as we share this experimental and thought-provoking new work for the first time.