Golden Soil & Wealth for Toil

The Bouffons have been watching Australia from afar. They’ve seen the tragic game of materialism, greed, and social injustice play out beneath the banner of the “fair go.” Now, they return — to Bendiwagga.

Once a thriving mining town, Bendiwagga now lies half-abandoned: rusting sheds, a dried-up riverbed, and a footy oval. What remains are scraps, stubborn pride, and clinging to the myth of “mateship.” Enter Va-Gina Coalheart — a grotesque mining heiress, who makes them an offer that could save the town, but at what cost?

A grotesque and satirical adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Visit (1956), this darkly comic fable takes aim at greed, hypocrisy, and the Australian myth of the “fair go.”

Presented by the graduating class of the National Drama School and Directed by Fabio Motta.