UTS Backstage Presents: Dumb Kids
Event description
UTS Backstage presents it's final show for 2024, Dumb Kids by Jacob Parker!Â
Dumb Kids is a contemporary queer commentary on Wedekind’s Spring Awakening, asking why do we always tell queer kids it’ll get better but never that it’ll get good. Set over the course of a year it follows a group of ten Australian school students planning their year eleven formal and their intermixing journeys of discovering their sexualities, gender and how to grow up in a world where everyone seems to have already figured it out. Raucously funny and unflinching, Dumb Kids is a celebration of community, friendship and identity.
Running time: Approx 2hrs (Including 2x 10 min intervals)
Content warnings: course language, sexual references, themes of Homophobia, references to sexual assault, references of drug use.Â
Director:Â Matt Dorahy
Production Assistant:Â Jess LuthÂ
Lighting Designer: EJ Zielinksi
Sound Designer: Sian Hayes
Stage Manager: Abigail Catherine
CASTÂ
Maria - Sabine Anais
Lammeir - Phillipa Kennedy-Spencer
Gabe - Harry Lyddiard
Will - Dean Alexander
Harry - Toby RoweÂ
Tanya - Jess Luth
Otis - Emily McKenzieÂ
Scarlett - Ella Sullivan
Trish - Kate Anthonisz
Eddie - Vish Kaveen
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