25 - 29 JAN
THEATRE WORKS
WORLD PREMIERE
5 STARS BY KISSING BOOTH A lovesick playwright and the beautiful actor who rejected him attempt to make art from the dismay. An officially fascinating trans artist makes his theatrical debut. The most handsome guy in your year twelve drama class just got cast in something absurd. Applause attempts to prove its value. This play is a love letter to theatre that your psychologist would advise you to write but not to send. Set against the backdrop of Melbourne’s theatre scene, this is the world premiere of an excellent play about how important it is to be beautiful and interesting and sexy and talented and nice. Theatre might be the worst thing you’ve ever done to yourself. ABOUT THE ARTIST - KISSING BOOTH Kissing Booth’s work fixates on the darker regions of the contemporary human experience, while never losing its taste for sweet glittery gayness. We have a focus on queer Australian texts, the relics of traditional romance, the state of modern masculinity, and the epidemic of heartache. Producing work since 2013, we strive to bear witness to the amorphus notion of being a queer Australian today. 22 | THEATRE WORKS season 2022
DIRECTOR Dominic Weintraub WRITER Jake Stewart CAST Joel Beasley Kurt Pimblett Jake Stewart Harrie Hogan
