Gavin Puts Things Straight

09 May 2011

Gavin Puts Things Straight is a bitter-sweet comedy about a family coming to terms with a truth that has never been acknowledged.

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Gavin Puts Things Straight is a bitter-sweet comedy about a family coming to terms with a truth that has never been acknowledged. As with most families, skeletons left in closets tend to get dragged out eventually.

North Shore builder Gavin has a relaxed attitude to life and work. He’s an average bloke who lives the bumper sticker maxim - “the worst day fishing beats the best day working”. Gavin’s family is not exactly dysfunctional, but not entirely happy either, although they care about each other, regardless.

Gav and his father Keith don’t get along too well; his Mum Noeleen knows why but she ain’t talking. She left the family home and shacked up with Glenfield entrepreneur Duane, a much younger bloke. Gav’s studious teenage brother James has no time for Duane; he lives with Keith and feels that his lonely Dad has been sidelined.

As divisions deepen within the family prior to a major family event, the usually laid-back Gavin decides to take control. It’s time someone put things straight. Gavin Puts Things Straight is the second play of Andy Saker’s Takapuna Trilogy, the first being last year’s successful debut of Pear Shaped, and is the third production staged at The PumpHouse by North Shore’s indie Devonport Theatre Company (DTC).