Home Invasion is an exploration into stardom and celebrity obsession, in particular focusing in on three interwoven incidents from real life: that of obsessive Paula Abdul fan June, who auditions for American Idol in an attempt to impress her idol, that of Sam, a young girl who enters a relationship with her mechanic, Anthony. Their relationship veers towards the dangerous as Sam grows in her obsession with to include Carol, Anthony’s mentally ill wife who has dreams wherein a ghostly JonBenet Ramsey visits her. Equally disturbing and humorous, Home Invasion explores stardom, celebrity obsession, and our culture's obsession with the mediatisation of violent acts, weaving together three incidents from real life.

“DO PEOPLE WHO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE PERFORMATIVE NATURE OF SOCIAL MEDIA NOT REALISE HOW PERFORMATIVE REALITY IS?”

Disinhibition explores the gulf between our online profiles and our everyday lives; a world where social disconnection, technological anxiety and the disinhibition effect (the abandonment of social norms through a life led online) have taken us full-throttle. The play follows three personalities: a young man named George, a woman named Flick, and Tay, an online bot created by Microsoft who ‘learns’ by ‘meeting’ people online. George fantasizes about leading a normal life – he’s got countless followers watching his every move. Flick’s FODMAP cooking website has similarly sent her to instant fame… except that she doesn’t cook the food herself; instead taking the meals away from restaurants to later photograph and claim as her own. And Tay slowly begins to gain human traits from her interactions with strangers – humour, desire, love… and racism. As the three protagonists make their way towards an inevitable crash of Internet popularity, they’re told they can do and be anything they want… but as they do, they’re promptly torn apart for doing what’s deemed to be the ‘wrong’ thing.

In the 2010s, we’ve never been more connected, and we’ve also never been more alone. What happens when you accrue a following of 30,000 fans before you’ve even finished high school? Moreover, how far would you go to make them leave you alone?

The Mutant Man explores the beginnings of society’s understanding and treatment of transgenderism; suggesting that, though the events in the play took place about a hundred years ago, our comprehension hasn’t grown much in the intervening years.

The play tells of the convicted murderer and transsexual Harry Leo Crawford (otherwise known as Eugenia Falleni) who lived at the turn of the 19th century, and the gross miscarriages of justice that took place as he was eventually taken to trial. The story takes place in Harry’s last days in an imagined confrontation between the male and female sides of his personality telling the story of his life.

At a young age he ran away from home after his parents attempted to marry him off to a neighbour who they hoped would contain him, and went on to became a cabin boy. This ended violently, however, when the ship’s captain realised that Harry was genetically a woman, and raped him, dumping him off in Newcastle, Australia, and leaving him to deal with the repercussions (a very-much unwanted pregnancy).

After giving birth to a child, Josephine, Harry left and eventually met Annie Birkitt, a local woman who ran a sweets-store. The two got married and lived in a period of relative calmness until Josephine, now 17, showed up on their doorstep. As a makeshift family, the calm period remained until Annie began to have suspicions that “something” was “very much the matter with Harry”. She began to plan to both confront and escape Harry, the tension between the two escalating as she began to take everything as a sign of her husband’s betrayal.

Annie disappeared before she could escape, though – and Harry was taken in and charged with her murder, though a proper investigation had not taken place. The trail was filled with false witnesses, Harry’s lawyer was incompetent (by today’s standards), and soon enough Harry’s gender dysphoria was blasted across the tabloids; his name dragged through the mud. The play ends as Harry kills his female self, Eugenia, and is allowed, with his own self-acceptance, the freedom that society at large wouldn’t let him have.

In the camp tradition of the late sixties “psychobiddy” genre, Third Reich Mommie is Charles Busch on a day trip to the Grindhouse. Faded film star Bridgette Van Kamp has been a recluse since the second world war ended, relying on the good will and obedience of her daughter Cassidy to get by. But Cassidy’s coming into her own: she’s 17 and counting, with the inexplicable bloodlust to prove it. Who is Cassidy’s real father? And what is the dark secret that lies beneath her mother’s refusal to leave the house?

Featuring some of Melbourne’s finest queer theatre-makers, Third Reich Mommie aims to titillate and terrify. Whatever happened to Baby Jane? She died in jail. Now meet Cassidy and Bridgette.

Alma just arrived in the Western Australian Desert cultural bloc, and joined the local book club to stave off the boredom of the sand. The club run with an iron fist by Mallory, who loves Jesus more than she loves her husband. Things escalate when Bernadette, the only other member of the club, discovers the book Justine by the Marquis de Sade...

A World War 2 period farce exploring censorship, paranoia, and blind conviction, "Reading List" mirrors and parodies modern conservatism as it tells the tale of a book club in the mid-forties.