This piece of art is a wonderful way to close the Panimo Pandemonium Festival Theatre Thoughts

pushes the bounds of creativity and excels Olivia Ruggiero

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. 

Director Lily Hayman With Ben Stonnill, Nick Vagne, Jessica Melchert, Claire Gilmour

Lighting Design Samuel Read Stage Manager Tyler Fitzpatrick Produced by Lily Hayman and Tyler Fitzpatrick

Adapted from The Flight of Birds by Joshua Lobb

UNDETERMINED TITLE by Angharad Wise

28 FEB - 05 March 2022

Two train passengers try to pass the time by playing games, re-enacting old glories, and struggle to remember their lives. As the journey goes on a growing impending doom lingers on the periphery. Can their struggle for love, dominance and submission overcome the apocalyptic doom awaiting them? Or is their fate as destined as the tracks they’re riding?

Director Charlie Vaux with Meg Hyeronimus, Jack Walton, Corey Dohmen, Emilia Kriketos, Georgia McGinness, Hamish White

Set Designer Rhiannon Cox; Stage Manager/Set Design Colleen Willis; Costumes & Prop Promise Mudzingwa; Sound Designer Rose Mulcare; Lighting Designer Sophie Pekbilimli; Produced by Emily Buxton & Jack Walton

The debut play by Sydney playwright by Angharad Wise tackles everything absurd with their own twist for modern day audiences. From the Director and Producer that brought you the incredibly successful season of Natives and a team highlighting the up-and-coming talent in Sydney theatre, Undetermined Title questions human nature and good old Mother Nature…with a whole lot of fruit for good measure.

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.

Directed by Zoe Resnick with Jess Spies and Lily Boss-Bailey

Set + Costume Design Bella Sealtern Sound Design Zac Saric Stage Manager Jodi Rabinowitz Produced by Jason Jefferies

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.

3:33am by Anjelica Murdaca

21 - 23 February 2022

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.

Director Lachlan Knight Cast includes Isaac Harley

Set Design Taleece Paki Lighting Design Hannah Grech Production Assistant Henry Taylor Stage Manager Ebony Loloa Intimacy Coach Diana Paola Alvarado

Dramaturg Nisrine Amine Mentor Tash O'Brien

Producer Jacob Parr

ARCHIVED 2022

Chef by Sabrina Mahfouz

17th Feb - 20th February 2022

everything gels … it’s an excellent performance Jason Blake

★★★★ Audrey Journal

acting and direction of the finest quality. An intriguing, lingering, satisfying watch Judith Greenaway

A searing one-woman show about ambition, justice, freedom of choice, and of course, food. 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.

Dir Victor Kalka with Alice Birbara

Lighting Designer Jasmin Borsovszky Sound Designer Ryan Devlin Stage Manager Christopher Starnawski

Produced by Victor Kalka and Ryan Devlin Presented by Virginia Plain

Photography Clare Hawley

Playpen by Rhiarn Zarzhavsky

14th Feb - 16th February 2022

brims with nostalgic details and vibrant images … captivating and highly relatable

Theatre Travels

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.

A physical theatre piece based on the structure and workings of the brain.

Director Lucy Yabsley

Performers: Erin Franks, Alexandra Roberts, Lucy Yabsley, Olivia Xegas, Lana Filies, Rachele Edson and Meg Hyeronimus

Movement Director Jennifer Hart Lighting Design Capri Harris Set Design Olivia Xegas Costume Design Alexandra Roberts Stage Manager Maddison Hodges

Produced by Jennifer Hart for the Dollhouse Collective

Sunday 13 February | 5.00 pm

SOLD OUT

a modern response to Wedekind's Spring Awakening that 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.

WITH Annika Bates, Georgia Condon, Max Danta, Oliver Durbridge, Amy Hilliard, Sam Martin, Georgia McGinness, Rosie McGavock, Rachel Seeto, Emily Suine, Kimmi Tonkin, Jack Francis West, Georgia Yuncken

Lighting Design Tomas Doyle Sound Design Sam Chaeng Costume Design Kaylee Ranken Stage Manager Poppy Tidswell

Produced by Sophie Bryant and Tom Hanaee

SOLD OUT

10 - 12 February 2022

A madcap musical, a wacky, weird and wonderful cabaret, PUPPETS provides a fantastic showcase for Olivia Ruggiero to strut her musical theatre talents – singing, dancing, patter, quick change and abundant energy, a fully engaging and entertaining presence from entrance to final bow. Sydney Arts Guide

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, its 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!

Dir Carly Fisher with Olivia Ruggerio

Sound Design / Music Director Charlotte Leamon Promotions Laura Atkins-Robinson

07 - 09 February 2022

a crushingly nuanced portrayal of how we of blended background can be simultaneously cherished for our quota-filling abilities and ostracised for our inconvenient need to be treated as equals to our more easily-categorised peers. James Ong, Theatre Travels

deftly navigates clever laughs and nuanced conversations about cultural identity and existing in the in-between Shon Ho, City Hub

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.

Cast Dominique Purdue & Sophie Teo

Director Eric Jiang

Asst Dir / Dramaturg Rachel Seeto, Designer Olivia Thomas, Sound Designer Samantha Cheng, Lighting Designer Cecilia Dinh, Stage Manager Kim Surya

Playing in Double Bill with Tough Titties

SOLD OUT

Revues, by nature, tend to keep things lighthearted, but the sinister undertones of how women are treated and pitted against each other in the world today shines through James Ong

the Double Bill of Misc and Tough Titties holds the core understanding that our male-centric society works on breaking women down into their component parts and re-assembling them into an image that best suits profit. Despite this somewhat dire situation, there is nonetheless a sense of celebration at hand in both shows, that pleads audiences to embrace their true identities and proclaim it from the rooftops Theatre Travels

SEASON SOLD OUT

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!

By Kristelle Zibara, Renae Valastro and Catherine McDonnell

Dir Kristelle Zibara

Cast Renae Valestro, Luisa Galloway, Liz Lin, Linda Chong, Jacqui Duncan, Guneet Kaur, Georgia Hooper, Emily Teede, Catherine McDonnell, Andrew Ramage, Airlie Benson, Audrey Clarke

Producer Claire Holland, Assoc Producer Shahrin Shamim, Lighting Designer Cecilia Dinh, Assis Lighting Aimee Raval, Sound Designer Sam Cheng, Set & Costume Design Olivia Thomas, Stage Manager Kim Surya

Playing in double bill with Misc

hilarious, entertaining…expertly written, designed, and performed, and invited the audience to come on this rollercoaster with Sarah as we watched this young, 13-year-old girl grow into an established young woman, finding herself in this present, difficult time, and not letting her Katy Perry obsession take over her entire world ~ Josephine Hill, 16, Australian Theatre for Young People

SOLD OUT

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 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.

Written and Performed By Sarah Leigh Carroll

One performance only

Director / Dramaturg Nadia Townsend

Choreographer Amanda Yipp: Stage Manager Natasha Pontoh-Supit Sound / AV Lucy Yabsley Lighting Design Capri Harris: Costume Design Alexandra Roberts

Producer Jennifer Hart

ROSIE LICENCE PRESENTS

BITCHCOIN

01 + 02 FEBRUARY 2022

SEASON SOLD OUT

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.

Dir Max Baume and Keshini Shehara with Georgia Yunken, Sylvie van Dijk, Campbell Taylor

Designer Eliott Ulm Producer Akala Newman

playing as part of the PANIMO PANDEMONIUM season at KXT

27 - 31 January 2022

JOLLY GOOD COMPANY PRESENTS

LADY GREY in ever lower light + MR THEATRE

by Will Eno

“a crazy paced, hurling, frantic piece … fascinating works expertly done“ Judith Greenaway

“Can’t look away” Chuck Moore 

SEASON SOLD OUT

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.

LADY GREY Dir: Zac Bush with Claudia Shnier

+ MR THEATRE Dir: Zac Bush & Sophia Bryant with Bayley Prendergast

Set Design Sarah Amin; Lighting Design Mehran Mortezaei; Sound Design Zac Saric; Costume Design Esther Zhong; Movement Director Diana Alvarado; Stage Manager Kim Surya; Producers Zac Bush and Claudia Shnier

Producers: Zac Bush and Claudia Shnier

a part of the PANIMO PANDEMONIUM festival at KXT

QUEEN HADES PRESENTS

A GRAIN OF SAND | by Declan Coyle

insightful, and engaging …well worth seeing – as, I expect are all the shows to come in the Panimo Pandemonium season Judith Greenaway

exciting while it’s running and raising lots of stick around afterwards questions when it’s over… not to be missed Chuck Moore

original, compelling and entertaining Toasting Aussie theatre 

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.

Dir Margaret Thanos with Enoch Li, Kelly Robinson, Susanna Pang

Producer: Natalie Low Set & Costume Design: Kaitlyn Symons Lighting Design: Sophie Pekblimli Sound Design: Akesiu Poitaha Stage Manager Ebony Loloa Production Photography Clare Hawley

presented by Queen Hades Productions