The Confession Booth Showcase features three developing works by new student writers, presented as staged play readings in motion. Design elements are bare-bones -- focus is kept on storytelling and the showcase's themes of confession, interrogation, and secrecy.

ABOUT THE PLAYS

Snakes and Straights by Fynn Zagari
A boy is missing. His gang speaks in riddles and regrets. As the night unravels, so do the loyalties that once held them together,
Look to Your Left, Look to Your Right by Jayden Alexander
Recounting an experience of a traumatic event, Look to Your Left, Look to Your Right explores an aftermath, questioning memory, shame and most importantly, what happens next?
Headlights by Lilla Gutteridge
Headlights is a story about queer desire, road trips, and the neurodivergent experience of navigating a world not built for you. As well as a small amount of murder.

CONTENT WARNINGS

Snakes and Straights contains:

References to gun violence
Murder and death
Strong language
Graphic descriptions of injury/scars
Themes of youth crime, gang conflict, and peer pressure

Look to Your Left, Look to Your Right contains:

References to sexual assault
Themes of trauma, PTSD, and therapy
Vehicular accident / hit-and-run
Graphic descriptions of injury & roadkill
Strong language
Gaslighting / dismissal of harm
Exploration of masculinity & gender

Headlights contains:

References to mental health struggles and psychiatric medication
Hallucinations and paranoia
Graphic descriptions of violence and disembowelment
Onstage depictions of blood (implied)
Themes of murder, crime, and complicity
Stalking and boundary violation
Strong language

IMPORTANT INFO

Run time: approx. 60min with no interval (3 shows will be running back-to-back)

SPECIAL TICKETS

Cipta Member tickets are strictly for current Cipta members only. Each member can redeem one discounted ticket using their unique membership number during checkout. If a membership number is missing or invalid or has been used to purchase more than one ticket, please be advised that ticket will be invalid and will be cancelled by event organiser.

Companion tickets are only applicable to people in a caretaker role accompanying a person with disability to the show. You must be able to provide a valid companion card in order to be admitted into the show.

ACCESSIBILITY

Wheelchair access and seating

Hearing assist system, infrared pendants are available and may be collected from Box Office prior to performance

Elevators, escalators and staircases allow for various access paths to Level 2 theatres

There are accessible toilets available in the Arts & Cultural Building on all levels

All performances will be captioned

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY

Cipta Theatre Company acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nations. Upon whose lands we come together to live, work and perform. This country has known song, dance, art and storytelling since the beginning of all things. As artists we are honoured to contribute and to be a part of the continuation of storytelling, here in this Kulin Nations country.

We remember we’re telling these stories as settlers on stolen land who benefit from the ongoing dispossession of First Nations people. As a company, Cipta stands with First Nations people globally and in so-called Australia and we affirm that sovereignty has never been ceded. We pay respects to elders, past and present, as well as any Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders attending the show. We call for truth-telling, treaty and above all decolonisation of all areas of society, especially the arts.

We would also like to encourage those who would like to do more to look into organisations such as Pay The Rent and visit and support Camp Sovereignty.This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.