Triassic Parq - Seymour Centre

Overview

What could be more timely than a musical about gender transitioning, after those photos of Caitlyn Jenner placed trans issues on the pop culture radar?

The only catch is the transgender protagonist of Triassic Parq is a T-Rex.

The director of the musical comedy's Australian premiere, Jay James-Moody, describes the show as “Rocky Horror meets Jurassic Park”. Pertinent questions of identity and community are explored by an ensemble of existential dinosaurs. Note: the ‘dinos’ still look very human, so don’t expect massive puppets or prostheses and you won't be disappointed.

Triassic Parq premiered off-Broadway in 2012 to some acclaim, yet the Seymour Centre's Reginald Season (for Aussie independents) is the first chance to see the “raunchy, yet poignant” musical at home. For musical theatre tragics, it's a must, and for the rest, it's an opportunity to see a funny, self-effacing, contemporary musical.