Corker is a full-length satiric comedy by Wendy Lill. The story begins when the homeless title character Corker appears on the doorsteps of a highly successful, ambitious and well-to-do couple of professionals and he refuses to leave the premises. Surprisingly funny and at times very touching, the play examines the effects of decades of cutbacks on the crumbling social safety net and challenges our society's choice not to care for the disadvantaged. Corker is the story of a dysfunctional family and the developmentally challenged young man who tries to attach himself to it. The play uses the familiar but difficult and treacherous nineteenth-century device of representing the family as a microcosm of the nation state. Opening with the extended family's awkward attendance at the funeral of Serena, aging flower child of the sixties, the symbolic conflicts build quickly. Serena's sister Merit, a hard-driving, social-program-budget-slashing ambitious politician, and her husband Leonard, a lion of free enterprise, are hell bent on dismantling their government's social services by replacing them with a privatized human warehousing system whose track record to date has been the streamlining of the American prison system. But there's a problem: Serena's developmentally challenged friend Corker, the family's faded and failed country gentleman brother Galahad, and their octogenarian mother Florence, all become victims of Merit and Leonard's policies. It is Wendy Lill's great skill as a playwright that makes this symbolism work by unraveling it into a devastating conclusion that is seen in two completely different ways by the characters and the audience. While everyone in the play is celebrating their "one big happy family" reunion (brought about by Merit and Leonard having seen the "error of their ways"), the audience, having realized the characters are all about to lose their comfortable designer house and are headed for the unheated trailer park, watches in horror as the social worker brings in huge green garbage bags of junk.