Monster by Duncan Macmillan
Theatre
March 7 - 21, 2026
KXT on Broadway, 181 Broadway Ultimo
Sydney, NSW
Website: https://www.kingsxtheatre.com/monster
Description
“…A play that tests your liberal instincts to the limits...Macmillan's cracking play is a timely and gripping dissection of parenting and responsibility”The Guardian
For the first time on the Sydney stage, Duncan Macmillan’s compelling and provocative play Monster confronts the reach of empathy and weight of moral responsibility when it comes to the violence of boys and men.
A teacher is tasked with working with a troubled teenage boy on the brink of permanent expulsion. When Tom (Albert Mwangi) and Darryl (Campbell Parsons) are left alone in a classroom, a tense battle of wills unfolds and a teenage boy's actions ripple through the lives of those around him. How do you reach a child who appears afraid of nothing and cares for no one?
“He's got zero empathy. You could be having a conversation and start choking to death and he'd…probably just sit there and finish eating whatever you were choking on.”
Written by acclaimed British playwright Duncan Macmillan (People, Places and Things and Every Brilliant Thing), Monster refuses to deliver easy answers. It asks the audience to question; Are monsters inside all of us? Are they born or are they shaped? And what responsibility do the systems and societies around us bear?
Following Tiny Dog Productions’ acclaimed 5-star co-production of The Children’s Hour at The Old Fitz Theatre in 2025, Monster will be on at KXT on Broadway as part of its 2026 Summer Season (6-21 March 2026). This production is generously supported by the City of Sydney and Darlo Drama.
Starring Romney Hamilton (The Children’s Hour at The Old Fitz), Linda Nicholls-Gidley (The House of Bernarda Alba), Campbell Parsons (Babyteeth at KXT) and Albert Mwangi (2025 Sydney Theatre Award nominee), this exciting cast will bring Monster to life under the careful guidance of Director Kim Hardwick and an incredible team of Sydney creatives.
Kim Hardwick (Baby Teeth, Mercury Poisoning, The Lives of Eve, Deadskin, The Walworth Farce) is an award-winning director and producer whose work has been staged in Australia and New York to critical acclaim. This marks her seventh production on the KXT stage.
Monster by Duncan Macmillan, produced by Tiny Dog Productions plays at KXT on Broadway in Ultimo from 6-21 March 2026, as part of the KXT Summer Season.