By Eric Jiang
30 July - 15 August 2026
Downstairs Theatre, Belvoir
Claudia is jobless, cashless and flailing. Doomscrolling in the dark, ignoring emails from Centrelink, she wallows in the aftermath of an earth-shattering fight with her Mum. Why can’t Claudia just get a job like a good Chinese daughter?
So, Claudia is delighted when a plum job opportunity falls right into her lap.
Location: The underworld.
Employer: Meng Po, the Goddess of Oblivion.
Job Description: Erasing memories from the living.
Salary: Negotiable.
The hours are weird and there’s no option to work from home, but Claudia is happy to be diversity-hired if it gets her mind off things. And she soon discovers an unexpected side-perk: secretly tampering with the memories of her friends and family. Just small scrubs, at first. The time her skirt got stuck in an escalator. The time she said “rizz” in front of a Gen Alpha. But when a mortal meddles with the sacred, the consequences can be severe.
Playwright Eric Jiang (Rhomboid, ORIGIN STORY) and director Nicole Pingon (Moon Rabbit Rising, werkaholics) join forces for an epic underworld dive into family, forgetting and the dire consequences of commodifying the divine.
Griffin Lookout provides Sydney’s most exciting independent theatre makers with a season at Griffin as well as producing and artistic support from the Griffin Team.
Past Griffin Lookout shows include notable works such as SISTREN by Iolanthe, Birdsong of Tomorrow by Nathan Harrison, UFO by re:group, A is for Apple by Jessica Bellamy, Mother May We by Mel Ree and Jali by Oliver Twist.
Griffin Lookout and Belvoir’s 25A are joining forces in 2026 for an ambitious new season of indie theatre. Staged in the cradle of the Downstairs Theatre—a home of next-generation playwriting for decades—this collaboration will premiere Afterglow by Sheanna Parker Russon and Lillian M. Hearne, alongside lacuna by Eric Jiang.
Griffin Lookout in 2026 is proudly supported by Shane & Cathryn Brennan.
Director Nicole Pingon
Lighting Designer Morgan Moroney
Creative Producer Zoë Hollyoak
With Rachel Seeto
An Essential Workers Production
Venue
Downstairs Theatre, Belvoir
Previews 30 July – 1 August
Opening Night 2 August
Season 4 – 15 August
Performance Times
Tuesday – Friday 7pm
Saturday 1pm & 7pm
Sunday 5.30pm
Tickets from $40
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