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Super is a new Australian play by celebrated Melbourne playwright, essayist and poet Emilie Collyer, directed by multi award-winning theatre-maker, Emma Valente. Featuring Laila Thaker alongside Red Stitch Ensemble member Caroline Lee. Phoenix and Nel have superpowers. They take a lot of care and do a lot of good. But when celebrity chef Rae arrives at one of their weekly support meetings, she turns their world upside down. As they transform from stealth crusaders to global superstars, their powers ramp up exponentially. It's amazing! Until it isn't. Hilarious, poignant and strange, Super examines our urge to do good and what happens when this effort comes up against the relentless force of capitalism. If we are super, what is the cost?

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EMILIE COLLYER is an award-winning playwright and poet. Her writing has been published in Meanjin, Overland, Griffith Review, Island and Kill Your Darlings among many others. Her poetry collection Do you have anything less domestic? (Vagabond Press 2022) won the inaugural Five Islands Prize and she has been runner up in the Gwen Harwood poetry prize and shortlisted in the Newcastle Poetry Prize. Her writing credits for theatre include Argonauta, Promise, The Good Girl, Once Were Pirates, Dream Home, Contest and Super, produced in Australia, New York, Los Angeles, Edinburgh and Prague. She has been commissioned by many of Australia’s leading theatre companies including Melbourne Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, Red Stitch Theatre and The Street Theatre. Her plays have won and been nominated for multiple awards including Theatre503 International Playwriting Award (London), Queensland Premier’s Drama Award, Green Room Association Awards, George Fairfax Prize, Patrick White Playwriting Award (twice nominated) and the Malcolm Robertson Prize. Emilie has a PhD in Creative Writing from RMIT.

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