Steven Moffat’s Killer Comedy Of Manners, The Unfriend, Makes Australian Premiere

This October, The Unfriend, the stage debut of Steven Moffat, acclaimed writer behind British TV mega hits Doctor Who, Sherlock and Douglas is Cancelled makes its Australian premiere at Sydney Theatre Company’s Roslyn Packer Theatre.

Helmed by the legendary Simon Phillips (STC’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Priscilla: Queen of the Desert), The Unfriend stars comedic genius and STC audience-favourite Helen Thomson (STC’s The Importance of Being Earnest, Colin from Accounts) alongside Ty Arnott, Brooklyn Davies, Huw Higginson, Alex Lee, Tim Walter and Ben Wood.

 

 

On a cruise ship, Peter (Tim Walter) and Debbie (Alex Lee) befriend Elsa (Helen Thomson), a sassy and less than sensitive American widow who demands they stay in touch. When Elsa invites herself to stay a few months later, they look her up online and learn that she might have been putting more than mushrooms into the odd casserole, with poisonous results. Now, the couple must race to protect their family whilst avoiding the greatest faux pas of all: being, well, a bit impolite?

This deliciously dark comedy takes a hilarious bite out of middle-class England’s obsession with being “nice”, no matter the cost. Don your napkin for “an uproarious comedy of English embarrassment…a relentlessly snowballing orgy of discomfiture…a delight” (London Evening Standard).

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Season Details

Venue: Roslyn Packer Theatre
Date: 29 Sept-31 Oct 2026

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