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Between The Lines – The James Joyce/Groucho Marx Letters
SHOW DETAILS:
Wednesday 17 June – Sunday 21 June 2026
opening night: Wednesday 17 June
duration: 80 mins (no interval)
times:
Tuesday to Saturday 7:30pm
Sunday 3:30pm
ticket price: $35 – $48
bookings: 03 9662 9966
warnings: coarse language, misogyny, referenced sexual violence & assault and sexual references
A young scholar makes the discovery of the century – letters between James Joyce and comedy legend Groucho Marx – and believes she has secured her legacy. But in the cut-throat Joyce Industry, credit rarely goes to a woman. Between The Lines is a razor sharp, wryly witty literary mystery that follows her descent into a patriarchal web of ego and academic theft. As her groundbreaking discovery is hijacked by the very mentor she trusted to protect it, truth begins to blur. Packed with intellectual gymnastics and dramatic reversals, the story asks: who gets to own history? In a world of literary giants, you can’t trust even the evidence of your own eyes…
Photo by Jody Jane Stitt
CAST in order of appearance
PANDORA FRIEDAN Seon Williams
JAMES JOYCE Tref Gare
JILL SNOW Christina Costigan
GROUCHO MARX Scott Middleton
MURRAY DALTON Shannon Woollard
MARY FRIEDAN Christina Costigan
CREATIVES
DIRECTOR Renee Palmer
SCRIPT Steve Carey
STAGE MANAGER Alison Ferrier
SET DESIGNER Ishan Vivekanantham
COSTUME DESIGNER Zach Dixon
LIGHTING Lindon Blakey
SOUND DESIGNER AND COMPOSER Inder Singh
PRODUCER Steve Carey
PRODUCTION MANAGER AND ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Ella Thompson
CREATIVE DIRECTOR Frances Devlin-Glass
MARKETING MANAGER Eleanor Howlett, Sassy Red PR
Ticket Prices:
Full: $48
Concession: $39
Group 4+: $35
Mob tickets (discount for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island mob): $35
Concessions:
Pensioners/Full-time students/MEAA members
Ticket sales are subject to a booking fee of $5.00 per ticket plus any merchant charges for payments by American Express
Ticket fees are charged reluctantly. As an unfunded CBD located venue, our expenses continue to rise. If fortyfivedownstairs is to survive, we are obliged to increase our revenue without inflicting costs on already struggling artists. Without support, we risk losing artists or having to close our doors. We do hope for your understanding!