Past event
Headlined by Etcetera Etcetera from Drag Race Down Under, and featuring staged readings and premier productions of new queer Australian plays, come join us for a season of original works.
BIG SCREEN, SMALL QUEEN (EVERYTHING I DIDN’T LEARN AT FILM SCHOOL / February 11 – 23
Etcetera Etcetera is a drag superstar on the rise – but there’s some unresolved artistic conflict in her past. It’s time for her to open up about her struggles at film school and breaking into the film industry as a gender rebel and less-than-mainstream artist.
Come along and discover everything she didn’t learn at film school in a hilarious and jaw-dropping interpretation of the history of cinema. Watch as she plays characters straight from the silver screen and shows some of her own films she made in film school. Life is a movie – and she’s the star. Get the popcorn ready!
FRENCH LETTERS AND LEATHER CLEANER / February 10 – 24
An ageing shop owner, a savvy twenty-something, a jaded drag queen and a straight Inner West couple spend an evening in an adult store.
Once a haven for Sydney’s lost souls, today “French Letters” is an adult store in decline. Sales are down, gentrification is up, and store owner Robbie is on the verge of selling to developers. Thrust together one evening, a band of unlikely friends discover that they may have more in common than it first appears (ulterior motives aside). Sometimes it takes stepping outside of your comfort zone to find the community you’ve been looking for.
BACK TO BIRDY (staged reading) February 16
Back to Birdy explores the relationship between trans men and queer women, issuing a call for empathy and understanding in our own backyard.
ACT NATURAL (staged reading) February 16
Act Natural is a queer ontological thriller that explores the performativity of gender and sexuality – can you truly decipher the line between a performed self and a true self?
Presented by
- Fruit Box Theatre
Supporters
- Pride Foundation Australia
- Lesbians Incorporated
- SB&W Foundation
- Inner West Council