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Bloomers

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  • General Admission: $15.20 each ($15.00 + $0.20 fees)
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Dates

  • Thu 24 Oct 2024, 7:00pm–9:00pm Cancelled
  • Fri 25 Oct 2024, 7:00pm–9:00pm
  • Fri 1 Nov 2024, 7:00pm–9:00pm
  • Sat 2 Nov 2024, 7:00pm–9:00pm

Tour

Part of The Motley Bauhaus

Restrictions

All Ages Licensed

Listed by

Motley Bauhaus

Engage. Cross-pollinate. Generate.


Bloomers is a series of staged readings of new works in development from an exciting line-up of emerging playwrights. We believe it is essential for writers to experience their work performed without the pressure of needing to present something fully-formed. We want to offer a space for theatre-lovers to gather and engage with fresh ideas, and to gain an insight into the writer's process.


Over four nights we will showcase four very different new works in progress from four different writers with uniquely exciting voices.


Come and see these works stripped down to their raw essentials before they hit our stages, make connections, and get your creative engines roaring.

Play One:

“Eat” by Yogashree Thirunavukarasu (she/her)

25th of October - Theatrette

Director: Margot Morales (she/they)

Read by Nisha Joseph (she/her), Yogashree Thirunavukarasu (she/her), Yashith Fernando (he/him), Sunanda Sachatrakul (they/them)

Content Warnings: eating disorders, alcoholism, coarse language, verbal abuse, death

Adrian is dead at 25. As his family members reel from his untimely passing and

the illness that started it all, his sister – desperate to assuage her guilt –

investigates the events in his last year of life, stumbling upon a world previously

unknown to her. Eat explores familial love, cultural expectations and grief

through the lens of a family left fragmented from the effects of an eating

disorder. This non-linear play also calls attention to the many ways in which

disordered eating affects millions of lives.

Play Two:

“Werkaholics” by Vivian Nguyen

1st of November - Cabaret Stage

Director: Nicole Pingon

Dramaturgy: Zack Lewin

Read by: Nisha Joseph (she/her) and Anna Louey (she/her)

Werkaholics is a new play by Vivian Nguyen, commissioned and developed with Footscray Community Arts Centre, as part of the Malcolm Robertson Foundation Commission. Lillian is on the rise to stardom at 950K on Instagram as one of Australia’s top influencers, so big she could be featured on Vogue Australia. Her aesthetics, though non-threatening, feature a curated feed of clean girl aesthetic freedom. Following her, literally in the depths of her shadow, is her longtime best friend and struggling actor, Jillian. Fame is turned around when Lilian is exposed by the Cultural Zeitgeist Icon, Unmoi who poses as a threat to Lilian’s whole life. Through manifestation, luck and a boss girl transformation, Lilian overcomes the thread of cancel culture. Or so we think.

Play Three:

“Murder, Murder Hair! (A tragedy)” by Dr Suvi Derkenne

2nd of November - Cabaret Stage

Dramaturg: Dom Mercer

Director: Alanah Guiry

Winner of the Lysicrates Prize 2023

Peter Gorman is having a bad day. He's broken up with his boyfriend, his mum has just died after stealing two million dollars, and now there are two lawyers sniffing around his pub. In spectacular fashion, and over the course of just one evening, things turn from bad, to worse, to ugly. Murder, Murder, Hair! A Tragedy is a contemporary queer comedy about love in all its utterances.

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