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  • IBS: Irritable Blood Suckers

    CarltonTheatre | October 2 - 6, 2024

    Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2 has just dropped, MySpace has been edged out by Facebook, teens unironically text YOLO, and garlic is in... almost every meal.

    So, most options are off the (dining) table if you’re an endangered vampire with an anaphylactic garlic allergy.

    Enter, Izzy, a human, an IBS girly. Izzy doesn’t eat garlic. After a meet-cute fit for a rom-com, she falls in love with a vampire from Geelong (and his freestyle rapping). But will she end up with more than just a love bite?

    IBS: Irritable Blood Suckers is a genre mash-up of romance-horror-comedy, combining the absurdity of vampires against the backdrop of university college dorms. It’s the awkward wit of Taika Waititi’s ‘What We Do In the Shadows’ combined with the whacky friendship of ‘Broad City’.

    Brought to you by award-winning playwright Elise Wilson, this script was written during the Australian Theatre for Young People and Barking Gecko’s Fresh Ink mentorship program in 2021 and is presented as the debut work for Bridget Sweeney’s Artistic Allsort.

    Praise for Elise’s previous work:
    “This is a play that couples intelligent writing with dynamic and enthralling staging to envelope the audience in a psychological and physical experience.” - Gutter Culture ★★★★½

    “Beautifully written by young playwright Elise Wilson... The directions the storyline takes are wild and full of imagination” - Seesaw Magazine ★★★★★

  • The Female of the Species by Joanna Murray-Smith

    SydneyTheatre | November 1 - 23, 2024

    Rogue Projects presents
    THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES
    Written by Joanna Murray-Smith
    Directed by Erica Lovell

    Alone in her country cottage, Margot Mason, rockstar feminist, writer and fearless academic is trying to write her next life-altering bestseller, something that can match her seminal work, The Cerebral Vagina. But rather than producing diamonds, the pressure has only produced crumpled pages and a serious case of writers’ block.

    Enter Molly, a committed fan with an axe to grind. And a gun.

    Faced with the true impact of her life’s work, Margot must defend her choices to not only Molly and her gun, but to her daughter, her publisher, an errant taxi driver, and ultimately, us.

    Almost twenty years since its premiere, Rogue Projects and director Erica Lovell present this fresh new take on a play that deftly walks the tightrope between satire and farce - a take-no-prisoners comedy that proves the female of the species is not only deadlier, but funnier than the male.

    “The Female of the Species is a witty, sassy and intelligent comedy from one of Australia’s leading playwrights.” – Australian Stage

    A “lacerating farcical attack on "old-style" feminism” – Variety

    Cast and Creative Team
    Producing Company: Rogue Projects
    Playwright: Joanna Murray-Smith
    Director: Erica Lovell
    Producers: Talia Meyerowtiz-Katz, Robbi James, Erica Lovell
    Production Designer: Paris Burrows
    Lighting Designer: James Wallis
    Cast: Lucy Miller, Jade Fuda, Lib Campbell, Doron Chester, Joe Kalou, Mark Lee

    Dates + Ticketing
    Season: November 1 - 23
    Note- previews are 1/11 & 2/11, opening night (invite only) is 3/11
    Times: 7pm Tues-Fri, 2pm & 7pm Sat, 5pm Sun

    Ticket Prices:
    Previews & Cheap Tuesday: $38.50 + booking fee
    Adult: $49.50-82.50 + booking fee
    Concession: $39.50-60.50 + booking fee
    Approximate Run Time: 90 minutes
    Content Warnings: coarse language, sudden loud noises

  • Seventeen
    Seventeen

    SydneyTheatre | September 28 - October 19, 2024

  • Chorus!
    Chorus!

    SydneyTheatre | November 13 - 15, 2024