SUDS Presents: Nowhere Fast
Event description
SUDS Presents: Nowhere Fast
An original work by Rose Cooke
19 April - 28 April
The Cellar Theatre
Doors open 7PM
Show starts 7:15PM
Run time: 1 hour 30 minutes with no intermission
The insecure alpha male. The hysterical office slut. The unhinged incel. The cool girl.
Nowhere Fast puts all these archetypes in a soulless workplace - what could go wrong?
Rose Cooke’s Nowhere Fast is an original work shaped by power plays and gender performance. Fed up employee Joan is in the wrong place, wrong time. She picks up the phone right in the middle of accountant Ed’s “moment” - he’s been reading those incel forums a little too closely. Since when could the bleakest office in the building be this thrilling?
But then their boss, Adam, and ditzy coworker, Sharon, become tangled up in Ed’s plans, and the stakes get higher… somehow. Ed’s gone off the rails. Adam and Sharon’s masks of gender performance begin to slip. Joan has to make a decision - confront her flaws, or continue to play holier-than-thou and risk much more than just her Cool Girl reputation. Will they all move past their differences, or go out with a bang like a gender reveal gone horribly wrong?
CAST
Ed: Felix Tonkin
Joan: Ruby Lewis-Millar
Adam: Michael Sebastian
Sharon: Jadzia Stronell
PRODUCTION TEAM
Writer/Director: Rose Cooke
Dramaturg/Producer: Aqsa Suryana
Assistant Producer: Alexis Nguyen
Set Designer: Jade Gillis
Set Assistants: Ligia Cristea and Nat Yuen
Sound Designer: Jade Carter
Sound Assistant/Operator: Ishaani Saha
Lighting Designer: Renee Jaiswal
Lighting Assistant: Freya Ma
Costume Designer: Emilia McGrath
Costume Assistants: Isla Clancy and Loren Andrews
Stage Manager: James Wily
Graphic Designer: Margot Roberts
Photographer: Gemma Hudson
Videographer: Thomas Hennessey
CONTENT WARNINGS
Strobe lighting
Unsettling sounds
Coarse language
Racist language
Depictions of a hostage situation
Sexist language and activity
Themes of death and violence
References to suicidal tendencies
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
SUDS acknowledges that the University of Sydney and the Cellar Theatre reside on stolen land; the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. As a society that exists to tell stories, it is important to acknowledge that stories were being told on this land for thousands of years before British colonisation.
SUDS pays respect to elders past, present and emerging.