The festival Supper Club, hosted by the magnificent Nancy Denis (Ma’p Boulé), showcases hot new works in two tasty variety nights.

Join us for snippets of scripts where blood-magic and reality collide, stories that point a crooked finger at the modern body positivity movement and, of course, a comedy with a ChatGPT theory session.

With a different programme each night, Supper Club features works by Tiffany Wong, Erica Brennan, Geneva Valek, Youssef Sabet, Pratha Nagpal & Kate Bubalo.

Book early to avoid disappointment as Supper Club is sure to sell-out quick smart.

All tickets include supper.

Thursday 26 June

Hosted by Nancy Denis

Help Me, ChatGPT </3 by Tiffany Wong
A single gal conducts a dating experiment using ChatGPT and the audience as test subjects. The only problem? She’s also the guinea pig. Meet Tiffany: she’s not a comedian, but a self-proclaimed scientist, hopeless romantic, and now the enthusiastic test subject in her own AI-powered love experiment. After months of using ChatGPT as her unofficial therapist, she’s promoting it to research assistant – and together, they’re on a mission to find her soulmate from the audience. With ChatGPT’s help, Tiffany is diving into the unpredictable world of love, using data and storytelling to see if AI can truly crack the code of compatibility.

Remarkable Realisation of Ricky’s Modern Life by Erica Brennan
A breath taking exploration of legacy, motherhood, and the unseen forces that shape us, The Remarkable Realisation of Ricky’s Modern Life invites audiences into a world where memory, blood-magic, and reality collide. As Ricky, a visionary urban planner, records the story of her life, strange interruptions unravel the truth she’s fought to control—until she’s confronted with a reckoning she never saw coming. Lyrical, thought-provoking, and deeply imaginative, this spellbinding monologue asks:  if legacy isn’t found in bloodlines, what do we leave behind that truly matters?”

Hey Simon! by Kate Bubalo
Lovebirds Aj and Amber live in domestic bliss, eagerly planning their upcoming wedding. However, their third wheel Simon the AI home assistant, begins to shed light on the cracks in their relationship; or is he creating these cracks himself? This story is a meditation on the male gaze and digital panopticons. As we increasingly rely on technology to live our lives, it begs the question: is there such a thing as a private space anymore? And when women have always been haunted by the unseen eye of patriarchal expectation, it poses another question: is this feeling even new for women?

Thursday 3 July

Hosted by Nancy Denis

The Ozempic Diaries by Geneva Valek
When a mother is forced to move into her daughter’s share house, will the two be able to survive their deep divides on everything from the correct way to use a tea towel to whether Peter Dutton is actually a lizard in a flesh suit, or will they literally rip each other’s hair out in the cockroach-filled kitchen? The Ozempic Diaries points a crooked finger at the modern body positivity movement and asks us to question everything we’ve come to think about the reality of plus-size living and politics.

The Juggling Act by Youssef Sabet
Written and performed by Egyptian Australian writer/performer Youssef Sabet, The Juggling Act is an entirely true (but possibly fictional) autobiography of Sabet’s life. Deftly mixing storytelling and stand-up comedy this solo work charts the highs and lows of being a first gen Aussie and Sabet’s path to self-acceptance.

Azadi by Pratha Nagpal
1947 is known to be a pivotal year in Indian history. It is the year that some may say India gains Azadi from the British Rule and is divided in two nations. It’s a violent affair. No one talks about it. In this new work by Pratha Nagpal we meet Qala, a Pakistani Muslim woman who is taught one thing – she cannot marry a Hindu man and Veer, an Indian Hindu man who is taught the opposite – no Muslim women. Their fated love demands answers to questions they would never have faced otherwise. Will their love free them? What if it can’t? Do they still try? In each lifetime?

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