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Of 'Little Murders’, Jules Feiffer wrote that it was “a 'post assassination play', set in the age of urban paranoia where motiveless mass murder is as much a part of the atmosphere as air and noise pollution.”

Sounds depressing doesn't it? But although the play is one of the most devastating hatchet jobs on civilisation ever seen on the stage, it is also a cruel but very funny caricature of modern life.

Originally set in the America of the 1960s, it feels as fresh today as it was then. For better or worse, maybe we've just caught up. Karl Marx is supposed to have said that history repeats itself – at first as tragedy then as farce. ‘Little Murders' can show us how. And Australia is not exempt. A look around us seems to indicate that if Feiffer is right and America has been there and done that, then as eager consumers of things American we too may have reached the farcical stage.

The play centres on the Newquist family. Superficially happy, they are absolutely typical of what we might call the silent majority. They live in a kind of bubble, content with their lives. But what happens when reality simply doesn't cooperate? Worse, it intrudes uninvited?