Cusp (2019)
This is a play for audiences that enjoy the extraordinary in everyday characters- Scenestr / Cusp grips regardless of age - Audrey Journal
Elvis wants Rosie. Rosie wants to escape. Maddie doesn’t know what the hell she wants; but it sure isn’t this.
While Rosie balances the needs of community with her own life dreams, Elvis juggles a life of crime with a tougher path into the straight-and-narrow, and Maddie faces life as a single parent unless she aborts her unborn child.
Cusp juxtaposes the Northern Territory’s vast Top End landscape with the turbulent lives of three emerging adults as they swim against the tides of irrevocable change; asking the central question: How do you move into the future, when your past keeps dragging you backwards
Winner, 2020 AWGIE - Theatre for Young Audiences
Winner, Northern Territory Literary Award Best Script 2018
Shortlisted, 2022 NT Chief Minister’s Book of the Year
Scenestr
This is a play for audiences that enjoy the extraordinary in everyday characters. Mary Anne Butler's exquisite writing takes the complexity of their lives, mixes it with the rich landscape of the Top End and serves it to us as a work of complex beauty
Audrey Journal
Cusp is very compelling. Its target audience might be decades younger than you are, but Cusp grips regardless of age
Sydney Arts Guide
Mary Anne Butler’s play is well structured and the dialogue is strong. A good, fast moving night at the theatre
