Melbourne Theatre Company is set to include a new work in its 2027 program that reimagines a supposed secret meeting in the 1980s between former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke, media executive Kerry Packer, and cricket legend Clive Lloyd. The production is described as a dramatized, speculative take on what might have been said during that encounter.
All three outlets frame the planned play as part of the theatre company’s broader 2027 offerings, focusing on the unlikely convergence of politics, media and elite sport. While the reports do not provide additional details on the script or the specific subject matter discussed in the imagined meeting, they align on the core premise: that the characters Hawke, Packer and Lloyd are brought together in a fictionalized scenario.
The coverage is consistent in its emphasis on the trio and the time period, with no outlet presenting contrasting accounts about whether such a meeting occurred as described. Instead, the articles present the work as a creative reimagining rather than a confirmed historical account, based on the idea of a “secret” meeting.
