A UFO has landed near a golf course and so far, nothing. No culture-shaking First Contact moment. No obvious moves toward world domination. In fact, no communication at all. All the machine does is blink its lights.

Even so, it should be enough to put the very highest echelons of government on high alert, you would think. But this is Australia in the 21st century and the monitoring of the extra-terrestrials has been outsourced to a labour-hire company who have sub-contracted the work.

James Harding, Tahlee Leeson and Angela Johnston in UFO. Photo © Lucy Parakhina

The hired observers stake out the UFO at a respectful distance. They record the flashing light sequence (six on the right, six on the left, ad infinitum). They start to run out of note paper and quibble about who should dash back to their strangely evasive manager, who is holed up in a mock Tudor mansion near the golf course, for some more.

They ponder on the extra-terrestrials. Maybe they’re stuck in some low-paying, going nowhere gig, too?

Written by Kirby Medway and directed by Solomon Thomas for re:group collective, UFO is not a play in which...