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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

A COMMUNITY PLAY ABOUT GAMBLING HARM by KIERAN CARROLL

Commissioned by the City of Kingston in 2021, Enough is Enough is a theatrical production that examines the harmful effects of problem gambling. Enough is Enough is written and directed by award winning Melbourne playwright, Kieran Carroll (Sons of Sun, The Truth is Longer Than a Lie, NEWK – The John Newcombe Story).

Enough is Enough is set around a bayside hotel which has both the TAB and the pokies. Dangerously, the hotel is open until 5am. Four addicted gamblers from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds find themselves trapped inside the worlds of the hotel. Their lives unravel over the course of the play. One heads towards criminal activity, one seeks counselling and finds hope and support, one falls ill but still cannot stop gambling, one knows no other life after so much grief. All lose relationships and real connections with those they care about.

The four characters are watched over by a bar worker, a non-gambler, who herself is torn emotionally with the work of seeing other lives ruined by gambling. She needs a job but feels complicit in their suffering.

A gambling counsellor completes the casting giving the audience insights into a Victorian government history of gambling, coping techniques and the ways the general public can recognize when people are gambling and suffering privately.

Enough is Enough is a vital and important community conversation.

Please see below for two sample videos from the debut performances in November 2021.