CADAVER SYNOD

NIDA in association with bAKEHOUSE presents

CADAVER SYNOD
by Ruby Blinkhorn

Directors Mathew Lee
Assoc Producers Zoe Hollyoak, Bella Sham

Tuesday - Saturday 7.30pm, Sunday 5pm 
Adult: $50 / Conc $40 / Previews $35 

Thursday Accessibility ticket: $20 Apply the code OPENDOOR to an adult ticket at the checkout page and your ticket price will be adjusted. Only available for Thursday performances. 

In 897 AD, Rome, newly elected Pope Stephen is haunted by the legacy of his predecessor, Formosus, whose corrupt papacy decimated the Church’s public image. Amidst pressures from the King of Italy, a suspicious number of cardinals ‘falling’ down the Vatican stairs, and the antics of horny priests, Pope Stephen faces an impossible dilemma. Either bring the corpse of Formosus to trial posthumously and face eternal damnation, or stay faithful and risk political assassination. As Stephen’s morality waivers, so does his grip on reality, his descent into madness resulting in a bloody crescendo of chaos, betrayal, and several dead pigeons.

Like all good parables, some of this actually happened. 

This new play by Ruby Blinkhorn is bold, juicy, and blasphemous, reckoning with the crumbling of institutions - both religious and political. It’s funny, sexy, and cutting… the church would absolutely hate it.

a part of the NIDA x KXT New Writers ~ New Works festival