The Old Haunt

Two years after the death of a friend, Darcy, Sid, Red and Macca reunite at their old Newtown watering hole for one last long, messy night. Over cheap jugs and increasingly unreliable shared stories, they attempt to work out what happened to the friendship they once believed would last forever.

The Old Haunt is a play about youth. It’s about the people and places of our past that are foundational to our existence in the present and of our hope in the future. More than anything, it’s a play about the collaborative act of friendship. These folks did not simply share a house or a pub; they made one another, repeatedly telling stories that affirmed who they were and where they belonged. 

As the night unfolds, old yarns are spun, embellished, challenged and re-written. Their reunion begins to work only when they stop searching for the single correct account of the past and commit to telling it together once more.

The Old Haunt asks what remains when the people who knew us best are gone, and whether friendship can be rewritten without being erased.

Run time - 100 Minutes

Content Warnings - The Old Haunt includes references to suicide, strong language, mild violence and references to drug use. 

Cast -

Darcy | Amy Tustian

Sid | Hamish Coates

Red | Alice Schlipalius

Macca | Joshua Leek

Creatives -

Writer | Jack Kearney

Director | Jasper Reucassel

Assistant Director | Toipo Laga'aia

Producer | Aidan Hale

Assistant Producer | Antigone Marchbank

Costume Designer | Armita Goleij

Lighting Designer | Byron Rowley

Composer | Matilda Hefferen

Set Designer | Jasper Reucassel

Set Dresser | Isabelle D'Amico

Set Construction | Rahul Sripathy Cody & Marcus Strickland

Fight Coordinator | Max Morgan

Graphic Designer | Scout McWhinney

Videographer | Asia Dunstone

Photographer | Lara Pascoe

Social Media Manager | Carmen Rolfe

Production Assistant | Annabel Johnson

The Old Haunt and SUDS acknowledges the traditional custodians of the Land, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. As a society that exists to tell stories, it is important to acknowledge that stories were being told on this land for thousands of years before colonisation. SUDS pays respect to elders past, present and emerging. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.