Rebecca Gethings, Blair McDonough, Jessica Gerger, Andrew Robb & Tom Sangster in The Vegemite Tales

Based on the author’s own experiences of sharing a flat with fellow Australians while living in London, Bill Buckhurst’s production features former Neighbours’ star Blair McDonough (who also came second in the original Australian Big Brother).

In his Theatre.com Review, Mark Shenton wrote, “Melanie Tait’s genially observant comedy is constructed with a loose-limbed, shambling charm that, like the happy-go-lucky Aussies it pulls together as flatmates in Hammersmith, puts the accent—in every sense—on the coarse rather than the sophisticated. It has an air of gentle amiability, however, that suggests that the author has come not to criticise or satirise her six country mates’ baser concerns—plus a solitary European she places amongst them, an unconvincingly bisexual waiter called Gio—but to offer them up instead as types with which the audience can identify. It’s no surprise that the programme reveals that Tait is currently developing a TV series around the play now. There’s a sitcom quality to both the situation and the comedy; no wonder it has been compared to Friends. It plays effectively to a similarly enjoyable laughter track of recognition, with an occasionally inserted drama to give its character studies a little more weight.”