OTHER TIMES

About the show

It’s 1945, and the world has shifted. The war is ending, but its effects are written on the lives of Roo, Barney, Olive and Nancy. Bubba is now grown, and her youthful idealism is confronted by the harsh realities of post-war Melbourne. Emma, usually the voice of pragmatism, takes a leap into something new. Other Times explores fractured loyalties, the evolving roles of women, and the tensions between freedom and responsibility. Woven with humour, tenderness and grit, Lawler’s play reveals how working class Australians navigated love, work, and survival in extraordinary times.