The seriously hilarious Americanisation of the Australian theatre audience

Brookman let the Frugals off with a nod of respect, but he hooks right in to Boomers and Millennials.

Here were the Boomers, Judith and Patrick (Ms Picot and Geoff Morrell) returning for Christmas to their 25 year old farm somewhere in rural South Australia.

Their daughter Lily (Shelly Lauman) had been in residence for some time with Michael (Eden Falk), her husband of four years.

Michael wants Lily to ask mom and dad, when they arrive, for a rent reduction - ten bucks - seriously hilarious.

Lily's reticence is unexplained but Michael harps and harps.

On arrival, Judith begins straightening and moving. Small things - a chair here, a tea towel there - reprising her own mother.

Patrick picks up where he left off in the garden. Straightening and moving - a chook shed here, a fence there - reprising, you guessed it, his own father.

The irony, the irony.

Judith and Patrick have three children. Lily's brothers Alex (Yalin Ozucelik) whose pseudo-patricide monologue towards the denouement raises nary a whimper from the audience, and Tom (Marcus McKenzie), seriously hilarious as he explains to his demented grand dad Donald (Peter Carrol) that he got herpes from his ex boyfriend.

Funny stuff. All three Millennial offspring are unemployed. Seriously. Alex's wife Hannah (Sarah Armanious) is pregnant. Yep. Seriously. All three see themselves following their mother into 'the arts'. Maybe. Sometime in the future if they can find time to stop thinking about how to pay the rent.

Judith, bless her fine linen blouses, is anxious about the decision she and Patrick have made to return permanently to the farm.

Not to abandon completely the bolt hole in Sydney mind, but to keep it because they have fond memories of that life too.