Laced with acerbic humour, Do Not Pass Go turns hustle culture inside out to ask: when the system is built to break you, what’s left to hold onto?

Flux and Penny are colleagues whiling away their lives in the nondescript purgatory of a workplace no-one seems to run, doing a job no-one can explain, in a system neither of them really believe in. Clocked on, but gradually checking out. As their conversations drift away from work – into politics, their personal lives, and whether any of it still matters – their hot takes cool to something closer to connection. Together, they follow the precarious path to ‘work friends’, searching for common ground in a world that feels increasingly broken.

Since debuting Hungry Ghosts in 2018, screenwriter and playwright Jean Tong (Heartbreak High, Flat Earthers: The Musical) has cemented their place as one of the most exciting contemporary voices in Australian writing.