SUDS Presents: Rabbit + Shower Thoughts - A Troubled Feature

SUDS Presents: Rabbit + Shower Thoughts - A Troubled Feature

Rabbit written and directed by Felix Tonkin

Shower Thoughts written and directed by Aidan Hale

6th - 14th October 2023

The Cellar Theatre

TICKETS: SUDS $3 / USU REWARDS $5 / CONCESSION $7 / ADULT $12

Doors open at 6:50PM

Show starts at 7PM

RABBIT synopsis:

What gives seemingly innocent children and teenagers the capacity to commit acts of violence and cruelty? Can they be forgiven? 

After killing a rabbit, two teenage boys flee their school, fearing the repercussions. The play finds them hiding in an abandoned tunnel as they navigate their resultant guilt and paranoia. 

An original work by Felix Tonkin, Rabbit explores themes of masculinity, coming of age, and betrayal. Stylistically dark, claustrophobic and minimal, yet often nonsensical, Rabbit’s eerie and off-the-wall tone makes it humorous and menacing at the same time.

SHOWER THOUGHTS synopsis:

She wants to get out. He wants to be left alone. Evelyn, a young girl acclimatised to her interconnected world, finds herself trapped in a decontamination room with Adam, a nihilistic and out-of-touch man. With no escape for either of them, both are forced to confront and question each other.

An original and offbeat work by Aidan Hale, Shower Thoughts is a play that explores the nature of thought, the contemporary role of absurdism, and human connection in a paradoxically inhuman world. Most importantly, it is a play about the fruitfulness of questions. After all, what’s the point of questioning if all you have to show for it is a stupid rubber duck?

RABBIT CAST

Benny: Connor Simos

Tom: Michael Sebastian

The Schoolmaster: Rowan Greaves

SHOWER THOUGHTS CAST

Adam: Jeremy Jenkins

Evelyn: Scout McWhinney

PRODUCTION TEAM

Rabbit Director: Felix Tonkin

Shower Thoughts Director: Aidan Hale

Producer: Rose Cooke 

Assistant Producer: Alex McLeay

Dramaturg: Zoe Le Marinel

Costume Designer: Aqsa Suryana

Costume Assistant: Tamsyn Coetzee

Lighting Designer: Lucy Jeong

Lighting Assistant: Alexis Nguyen

Sound Designer: Harry Steele

Sound Assistant: Hugo Grizzti

Stage Manager: Mitchell Dihm

Props Master: Adele Beaumont

Graphic Designer: Dan Prichard

Photographer: Louis Beaumont

Production Assistant: Conor Bal

CONTENT WARNINGS

Rabbit: 

Ableism

Sexual References

Explicit References/Simulated Depiction of Animal Cruelty

Shower Thoughts: 

Nudity

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. Sovereignty was never ceded – Always Was, Always Will Be Aboriginal Land.