The Good Person of Szechuan is the flagship project of Malthouse Theatre’s International Program, it will also tour to China in October 2014, heading to both the Shanghai International Arts Festival and the Beijing International Theatre Festival.
The play analyses morals and the power of capitalism. After taking in three homeless strangers despite her own poverty discovers they are gods, Shen Te is rewarded with her own shop. Soon she is forced to defend her assets from mooching townfolk by developing an alter-ego, her male cousin Shui Tai. Soon goodness turns to wickedness.
