Packer and Sons

<p>James Packer believes you want to be him. 'I recognise that the vast majority of people would swap places with me and I wouldn't swap places with with anyone.' Is he right?</p><p>This is the origin story of the Packer prince told over three generations of tycoons who each battle to inherit their gargantuan birthright and drag it into a new era. <em>Packer & Sons </em>is about the family who told Australia how to think how to relax how to be - and the knowledge that was passed from father to son - wisdom acumen politics. But also how to forge your body-armour.</p><p>Tommy Murphy (<em>Mark Colvin's Kidney Strangers in Between Gwen in Purgatory </em>and <em>Holding the Man</em>) is his generation's great theatre chronicler of the mess that is contemporary Australia. His writing covers vast terrain - the nature of power who owns the truth how our society shifts its plate tectonics. Packer & Sons is also a play of intense detail and the quiet moments when powerful men pass lore to tomorrow's kings.</p><p>This landmark theatrical event takes aim at patriarchal power the catastrophe of entitlement and the greed that pervades Australian life.</p>