a raw but exquisite piece of theatre-making Sydney Morning Herald, Fledgling
insightful, and engaging …well worth seeing – as, I expect are all the shows to come in the Panimo Pandemonium season Judith Greenaway, A Grain of Sand
★★★★ Audrey Journal, Chef
Continues the strong Panimo Pandemonium taking place at KX Chuck Moore Reviews, 3:33am
Curated by PANIMO CREATIVES
17 directors, 59 actors, 45 designers, 14 stage managers, 20 producers, 11 world premieres, 46 performances, 6 sold out seasons, 2 shows going on to confirmed additional seasons with 2 more pending announcements, 3 new companies launched, 4 seasons staged after previous covid-cancellations, 1 new Australian work going into further development with more TBA (stay tuned!), 15 women playwrights, 10 women producers, 12 women directors…
8 weeks of kaleidoscopic mayhem brought together in a KXT Takeover by Panimo Creatives, with 14 works by early emerging artists as well as workshops, developments and meet-ups.
A Grain of Sand by Declan Coyle
How can you break the loop? Aedan is stuck in a room with Monica, an AI replication of his dead girlfriend. Committed to getting a confession from the clearly guilty party, a mysterious figure has Aedan trapped in a loop – living out his life with Monica again and again, waiting for something to crack. What none of them know is that the entire thing is being live streamed to a public audience, who will get to decide his fate. A Grain of Sand queries how justice can function in the public eye, and who gets to decide what is right in our technological age.
Lady Grey in Ever Lower Light by Will Eno
A girl needs a name doesn’t she? Quickly. Her life doesn’t work without you.
Watch her closely. She might find your own terrible secret.
That’s all.
Bitchcoin by Rosie Licence
Bitchcoin is a 50 minute comedy play that follows two Australian women who hate Jake Paul as they win a competition to move in with Jake Paul. The play blends video and live performance to give audiences a peek behind the scenes of being a professional youtuber. We quickly learn that nothing is less candid and fun than trying to look candid and fun.
SOLD OUT
Cherry by Sarah Carroll
How Katy Perry helped one fangirl on a bubblegum, bisexual adventure to pop her cherry.
It's 2008 and 13 year old Sarah is watching MTV when Katy Perry's 'I Kissed A Girl' comes on. She starts having ‘weird feelings down there’, and her obsession with Katy begins.
On a cloud of cotton candy, Cherry takes you on an intimate, bubblegum, pop journey from fangirl Sarah’s awkward teenager years, to discovering the power of Katy Perry’s music, to ultimately becoming a confident, bisexual woman, and on the way invites each one of us to embrace who we fully are.
Through classic Katy Perry songs such as, Wide Awake, Part of Me, and Firework, Cherry hilariously and insightfully celebrates the power of music to transform and enlighten in this one woman’s thank you card to her idol.
SOLD OUT - STAY TUNED FOR NEW DATES
Tough Titties by Kristelle Zibara, Renae Valastro and Catherine McDonnell
Tough Titties is a Feminist Variety Show, heavy on the comedy with a dash of important, almost difficult and certainly socially awkward truths. The show will be a platform for women to show off their comedy chops while kicking the patriarchy in the dick. It's an assortment of short, sharp entertainment that will make you laugh... A charcuterie board of comedy, if you will! Sure, maybe you don’t touch the olives, but you’ll talk about the blue cheese for weeks. Women have had it rough since the beginning of time, and we have to laugh about it or we’ll cry. If you don’t like feminism... then TOUGH TITTIES!
Playing in double bill with Misc
SOLD OUT
Misc by Dominique Purdue and Sophie Teo
Misc revolves around Bea and Jasmine, two half Asian, half white actors who keep meeting in different auditions, as they keep being put up for the same roles. They become fast friends, as they share experiences of the struggles and experiences about being from two different cultures in an industry that constantly tries to put them in a single box. This is a story of finding cultural identity, as they are forced to confront what it really means to be Asian and are put at odds with each other when they both try to fit into what they feel they need to fit into.
SOLD OUT
Puppets by Olivia Ruggiero
Puppets is a serious cross blend/mix of genres and weird mashups (Have you ever wondered what it would be like to mash-up Stephen Sondheim and Bruno Mars? Taylor Swift and Judy Garland? I did and I have!). It's quirky, it’s uniquely Australian... I mean where else in the world can you get away with calling people "muppets" and slightly sexualising Sesame St characters and not be condemned for it! Australian theatre! That's where!
TOURING - STAY TUNED FOR DATED
Dumb Kids by Jacob Parker
Dumb Kids acts as a modern response to Wedekind's Spring Awakening and follows the story of a group teens navigating their way through changing perspectives on identity and sexuality, written from a contemporary Australian perspective. The distinctly queer text focuses considerably upon the nature of interpersonal relationships, utilising a polyphonic writing style to provide a breadth of unique and resonant queer voices.
SOLD OUT - IN DEVELOPMENT
Playpen by Rhiarn Zarzhavsky
Playpen is a fresh new Australian work written by Rhiarn Zarzhavsky and produced by Dollhouse Collective. A physical theatre piece based on the structure and workings of the brain. Playpen is an amalgamation of colours, textures, sounds, and movement that discordantly sit together in the same space. The abstract and absurd notions of the Playpen, children’s toys, and adults interacting with them will be normalised. The characters themselves do not think anything of conducting their regular business within this space, and (hopefully) the audience will adjust so they too begin to see the normality.
Chef by Sabrina Mahfouz
A searing one woman show about ambition, justice, freedom of choice, and of course, food. It’s also some of the best writing I’ve read. As Chef plans the perfect menu she charts the events and relationships in her past that took her from a Michelin starred restaurant to a prison kitchen.
3:33am by Anjelica Murdaca
Day after day, a couple wake up and make the decision to love each other despite failing to love themselves. Bubble bath, Zoloft, marijuana pancakes and red babydoll lingerie - love-tokens of this rocky romance. Aaron and Bella ride a dangerous codependency, a symbiotic existence that thrives in a small, Redfern, studio apartment.
Much Stuff by Jess Spies and Lily Boss Bailey
An accidental touch that led to a particular look that led to a lot of questions left unasked. Join these two in their brutal, awkward and immensely un-elegant attempt at uncovering what exactly they mean to each other.
Much Stuff is an interactive and experimental piece about navigating complicated friendships, your fleabag-era and queerness whilst remembering to cook dinner and make rent. An unapologetic confessional of the rude and crude parts of being a human who is perhaps a little too sensitive. But it’s okay, we promise. We meant that in the nicest way possible. No really, you’re great.
Undetermined Title by Angharad Wise
Two people, connected by an inescapable passion, attempt to navigate their deteriorating relationship during global annihilation. Undetermined Title is an absurdist play that investigates the destruction of the environment through overconsumption, the inevitability of death and the violent struggle for power.
Fledgling by Lily Hayman
A moment is never a moment on its own. You have to understand the context…
A family sits on their veranda eating breakfast, the kookaburra’s laugh over their heads and the relationship between a man and his daughter is about to fracture beyond repair. Fledgling, a new adaptation of The Flight of Birds by Australian novelist Joshua Lobb, is a play about the point of no return passing innocuously on a Friday afternoon, without anyone noticing or lifting a finger to stop it.
This new play from writer/director Lily Hayman explores the traces we leave behind in the world and each other, revealing the ways that families become units of transmission. Because it’s not the point of no return that kills you. It’s the constant waiting for that point to arrive without doing anything to stop it.