★★★★★ Di Simmonds, Stage Noise ★★★★★ Cultural Binge ★★★★.5 Suzy Wrong ★★★★.5 Arts Hub ★★★★.5 Stage Door Reviews ★★★★ Limelight
KXT on Broadway’s intimate space creates the perfect partnership between performer and audience for experiencing the play’s emotional ride, to dance and cry alongside the protagonists. That not a second was wasted by the audience in giving a standing ovation attests to this success. Arts Hub
gritty, lively, sexy, and heartbreakingly sincere Honi Soit
executed brilliantly in this stunning performance by Fraser Morrison… his vitality and magnetism pervade every moment Stage Whispers
electricity-with-an-illuminating-message, magnificent here in the warm, infant KXT on Broadway… The instant standing ovation at this KXT opening showed the audience’s appreciation of all of the above in this moving, memorable piece. Sydney Arts Guide
You won’t see a more agile 90 minutes of solo acting this year – or an indie production more deserving of a return season Jason Blake, Limelight
Let’s make sure we’re travelling so fast that the heat we generate when we reenter the sky will burn us up and paint the night with light.
Backlit by the clubs of London’s Soho, Michael Spencer faces the music of his last night on Earth. Diagnosed with HIV in 1984, he's told by doctors that he has just four years to live. Determined, he decides his doomsday will be his biggest party yet. Sweat mixes with tears, and final dances turn into farewells. There’s a midnight countdown to his death but Michael … survives. With the gift of life, how can he go on living?
Nominated for the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2022 and now receiving its Australian premiere with community-led Fruit Box Theatre, Cruise is an intergenerational monologue spanning four decades and over 20 characters, celebrating queer nightlife and paying tribute to a generation lost to the AIDS crisis.
Director Sean Landis with Fraser Morrison
Production / Sound Designer Chelsea Wheatley; Assistant Production Designer Lucy Doherty; Lighting Designer Tom Hicks; Accent / Dialect Coach Linda Nicholls-Gidley; Movement Director Jeremy Lloyd
Stage Manager: Caitlyn Cowan Assistant Stage Manager Alice Chao; Cinematographer Anna McGirr; Photographer Abraham de Souza; Community Consultants Helen Fraser, Jonny Seymour and Wilfred Roach
Producer Hana Truban; Assistant Producer Louis Walker