Stop the Heart
Theatre
September 2 - 6, 2025
The Substation - Qtopia
136 Oxford St, Darlinghurst 2010, NSW
Website: https://sydneyfringe.com/events/stop-the-heart/
Description
Don’t talk to strangers or you might fall in love... with a Trump-supporter?! This Japan-set love affair questions the politics of pleasure and ethics of loving someone with misaligning values.Based on a true story.
Laura Goodlet directs Fletcher Scully in a poignantly conflicted solo performance, where he meets [Redacted] in the rainy streets of Tokyo and eagerly enters into a sexually explicit holiday romance. Once he finds out [Redacted]’s political affiliation, he must decide whether to follow his head or ask himself if he can stop the heart.
Which is stronger: the brain or the body? Are people really all good or all bad? Can he sacrifice his morals for the one he loves?
Expect raves, sex and a few tears in this electric one-man show.