Packer & Sons review – John Howard is a brutish Kerry Packer in generation-spanning play

Belvoir St theatre, Sydney
Staged just blocks from News Corp’s HQ, Tommy Murphy’s play describes how boys become Australian moguls: by being rammed into their fathers’ moulds

Tycoon. Dynasty. Newspaperman. Mogul.

They’re dated words in Australian discourse yet the story of the Packer family men, told in Tommy Murphy’s meticulously researched and generation-spanning new play, breathes life powerfully back into them.

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