“A full-throttle comedy... A terrifically funny script and a wildly entertaining performance.” The Age

After last year’s sell-out hit The Pitch, Anne Browning and Peter Houghton return with their take on the only arena more dramatic than Tinseltown - politics.

Prowling her high-rise office like a power-suited spider, Bea Pontifec juggles despots, dignitaries and diplomatic affairs in tandem with a drug-addled son, a new-age daughter and a two-timing partner.

The world patches in to seek her advice and this PR consultant will be damned if she's going to let anything upset her carefully woven world; not the African dictator, the US President, her ex-lover, or the bridesmaid at her daughter's alternative wedding. But one torn thread and the whole web will collapse…

Following its premiere season for La Mama, Malthouse Theatre is delighted to present The China Incident as part of the 2008 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

http://www.malthousetheatre.com.au/whatson/china