The rapturous response from both sides of the political aisle to our 2019 development presentation, as well as the advance sales from our sadly COVID-cancelled Sydney Theatre Company/Canberra Theatre Centre season was both a genuinely unexpected surprise and - paradoxically in hindsight - a sure thing.

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With soaring contemporary music, raucous humour, razor sharp satire, stellar characterisations, meta-theatrics, and a big heart, The Dismissal stirs all the necessary ingredients to engage audiences across generations, personal tastes, and political persuasions.

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To be among a room of Boomers, Gen X’ers and Y’s, and Millennials equally enthralled and enthused by an important moment in our country’s history is a profound experience.

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We want nothing more than to share this story and our unique telling of it with as many Australians as possible.

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We want to bring our history to stages in every state, in capital cities and regional communities.

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We want to illuminate the humanity of our politicians and examine their choices.

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We want to remind those that lived through the experience how they felt at the time.

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We want to enlighten those that have never experienced such an exceptional and challenging episode in our social and cultural history.

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We want to remind everyone how important our democracy is, what our collective participation means, and how we can strive as a nation to do and be our best.

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And we want to do it all with a little song and dance along the way.

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Like The Boy From Oz, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Dream Lover: The Bobby Darin Musical, Keating!, and Muriel’s Wedding, our production of The Dismissal has demonstrated, even in its infancy as a new work, that it has the capacity to connect Australians to our stories - and to each other - on a significant scale.

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It’s (show) time.