Neighbourhood Watch by Lally Katz (Currency Press Play)

And God said: ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbour’.

He obviously hadn’t reckoned on Ana.

A battle hardened, Hungarian-Australian World War survivor, Ana’s bark is as ferocious as her German shepherd’s. Catherine is her neighbour: twenty-something, curious and hopeful that a better world is on its way… but in the meantime watching episodes of The West Wing with her housemate. From each other Ana and Catherine gain a new understanding of friendship, and forge an alliance that carries them to war-torn Hungary and back again.

From the writer of the award-winning plays The Black Swan of Trespass and Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd, this is a glorious comedy about hope, death and pets. Lally Katz’s giant spirit of curiosity turns optimism into an art form in this play where, in the midst of the ordinary, extraordinary things happen.