The Wages of Spin takes you into a live TV studio, with the performers re-voicing key players from the Prime Minister to feral columnists, while a vision switcher calls the shots, floor crew wheel backdrops, props and interview talent on and off on cue, and live cameras transform and multiply every image to saturation point.

The production's meticulously researched script draws on public documents – speeches, Senate Committee proceedings into the scandals around sexed-up intelligence reports, interviews and opinion pieces from across the political spectrum. Sounds dry? Wait till you see the Minister negotiating a bed of nails, blindfolded, as he’s quizzed about who knew what about WMDs and wheat, when.

The Wages of Spin played to audience and critical acclaim in Sydney and Canberra in 2004. Now the team return to remake and update the work in the light of recent developments: the failure of the occupation to bring peace and democracy; the ghastly sequence of stuff-ups and cover-ups over the death of Private Kovco; and of course, the revelations that even as we were gearing up to bring down the evil tyrant, we were bribing Saddam to buy our wheat.

The Sydney-based company have built a reputation for making works engaging with very current themes in the Australian body politic. CMI: A Certain Maritime Incident (2004) took the Senate Inquiry into the “children overboard” scandal as a performance text. From a Distance took the “no-row” incident at the Athens Olympics as a starting point for a look at our obsession with winning. In their seventh full-length work, they’ve made a complex work that "tosses you in the moral deep end". (RealTime)

The Wages of Spin asks: “ Does it matter that we went to war on a lie?” – and it’s much more than a rhetorical question. This is political theatre for the 21st century: playful, surreal, and gut-wrenchingly tragic, with no easy answers.