Little Orphan TrAshley

Overview

From the writing team behind Fat Swan comes this performance that exponentially raises the calibre of things set in the Sutherland Shire. Little Orphan TrAshley is the latest adults-only panto to verify the genius of Sydney drag artist Trevor Ashley, who this time plays a ten-year-old orphan seeking her birth parents so they can give permission for gender-reassignment surgery.

The performance is much in the same vein of Fat Swan. A good portion of the humour is due to the fact that Ashley is a slightly overweight man and hence looks funny dressed as a girl, but most of it is due to the fact that he’s an extraordinary actor with impeccable comic timing.

The rest of the characters are no less ingenius — a photographer/multi-millionaire named Daddy Warhorse (Gary Sweet), the boozy matron Miss Trannigan (Rhonda Burchmore), and Fannie’s ex-sniffer dog Bullshit (Rhys Bobridge). You'll never look at that cutesy orange mop the same way again, but it will be worth it.