Only one week to go! No Images? Click here Electrifying, Award-Winning TheatreIt's only a week to go before Dee and Cornelius' sensational production of SHIT rolls into town. The company has remounted this original award-winning production of Patricia Cornelius' play, especially for HotHouse Theatre. The production has bowled audiences over with sell-out seasons at Sydney and Darwin Festivals, and Melbourne Theatre Company's NEON Festival. SHIT plays 17 - 21 July at the Hume Bank Butter Factory Theatre for six performances only - a rare opportunity to experience one of Australia's most powerful contemporary plays in its only non-capital-city season. Don't miss out! Plus after the success of our pop-up gin cocktail bar for Mother Ruin's, join us for pre-show whiskey themed cocktails, or a Jack Daniels and Coke with the bar open an hour prior to the performance time. SHIT won four Green Room Awards for its initial season and then went on to win the Sydney Theatre Awards for Best New Australian work earlier this year. Here's what critics around the country have said about this electrifying, original production. The critics rave about SHITIt's rare to see critics universally rave about a production this way ... "Peta Brady, Sarah Ward and Nicci Wilks each bring a sharply-delineated life force to the stage and are tremendously affecting in their different ways. All in all, this production should have been on the 'must see' list for Sydney theatre-goers ..." Stage Noise " With the most natural, raw, uncomfortable and hilarious opening monologues we have probably ever seen in Australian theatre, Patricia Cornelius’ Shit smacks you in the face and commands you to sit up, strap yourself in and FINALLY start paying attention to the women and girls who defy our social order and expectations." Theatre Press Review "SHIT is provocative and tragic, bracing and bitterly funny. It’s the sort of bold theatre that will have us confronting our own prejudices…" ★★★★ The Age " Cornelius draws these women with precision and authenticity, perfectly capturing the colloquial intricacies of their slang. There are also moments of a more rigorous dialect to provide emotional waypoints, framing a particular mentality with a formative moment from these characters’ pasts. Wilks, Brady and Ward have honed their repartee with such finesse that this text unspools with a completely riveting momentum." Limelight Magazine " It's rare for such marginalised characters to get a look in on stage, and when they do, there is almost always an aura of middle-class earnestness about it. Not here. The performances from Wilks, Ward and Brady bristle with conviction. Grotesque but utterly authentic, they bring these difficult women to life with every cell in their bodies.." SMH SHIT Podcast Episode Lyn recently caught up with former Albury resident, Nicci Wilks for a chat about Albury, careers and the bringing the award-winning production of SHIT by Patricia Cornelius to her home town. https://soundcloud.com/user-564560732/shit-podcast-final-edit PLAYWRIGHT Patricia Cornelius and Director Susie Dee talk about the creation of the show as part of the NEON Festival for Melbourne Theatre Company WARNING: The following video contains very course language and adult concepts. Viewing is recommended for mature audiences only. Lynno talks about why SHIT has made such an impact on audiences |