Knock The Cover Off is a finely crafted musical play from the quill of the legendary Australian writer Doug Moody who has successfully melded old English dialogue into a modern day setting.
We are taken to the Valley Diggers Club where the patrons and staff live out their lives over lashings of alcoholic beverages, smokes and assorted forms of gambling including the Keno, pokies and the obligatory meat tray raffles.
The poor inhabitants of the club endure a catalogue of disasters ranging from failed careers to broken marriages, criminal charges and one thousand suspect golf balls. When one of the drinkers scores a major jackpot on the pokies we wonder if the lives of the cripples and misfits that frequent the establishment will change for the better.
Doug has truly ‘knocked the cover off’ with this magical piece of work and he has secured his position as the Shakespeare of the modern age.
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