Overview
The latest production in the MTC’s Neon Festival of Independent Theatre is taking outdated gender demarcations and turning them on their head. The women in Patricia Cornelius’ bluntly titled new play aren’t afraid to scream, swear or throw punches. They’re mean and tough and damaged, and about as unladylike as you can get. And that, of course, is the point.
Shit marks the latest collaboration in a more than three-decade partnership between Cornelius and director Susie Dee. Their previous work together, Savages, won four 2013 Melbourne Green Room Awards as well as the 2014 Premier’s Literary Award for Drama. According to its creators, the aim of this new play was to allow the kinds of women rarely seen on the stage "the chance to come back at a world which despises them."
Shit runs from June 25 to July 5, with a post-show Q&A with Dee and Cornelius scheduled for June 28. For more information, go here.
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When
Thursday, June 25, 2015 - Sunday, July 5, 2015
Thursday, June 25 - Sunday, July 5, 2015
Where
Southbank Theatre, The Lawler140 Southbank Boulevard
Southbank