UTS Backstage presents it's final show for 2024, Dumb Kids by Jacob Parker!

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.

Director: Matt Dorahy

Production Assistant: Jess Luth

Lighting Designer: EJ Zielinksi

Sound Designer: Sian Hayes

Stage Manager: Abigail Catherine

CAST

Maria - Sabine Anais

Lammeir - Phillipa Kennedy-Spencer

Gabe - Harry Lyddiard

Will - Dean Alexander

Harry - Toby Rowe

Tanya - Jess Luth

Otis - Emily McKenzie

Scarlett - Ella Sullivan

Trish - Kate Anthonisz

Eddie - Vish Kaveen