THIS BITTER EARTH

BY CHRIS EDWARDS

SYDNEY (2019) + MELBOURNE (2020)

★★★★ RAZOR SHARP AND SCABROUSLY FUNNY, THE TONE SHIFTS FROM SERIOUS TO SENTIMENTAL, HEARTFELT TO IRONIC IN A BLINK

— AUDREY JOURNAL

WINNER OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE (INDEPENDENT)

GREEN ROOM AWARDS (2021)

I’m just saying, a little lube goes a long way.

Being a twenty-something is hard. Being a twenty-something queer is… something else, I guess?

Dating apps, dick pics and capitalist nightmares. A hostile rental market, un-safe schools and a semi-constant state of existential terror. We’ve only got 12 years until the climate catastrophe and we’re all going to low-key high-key die alone, might as well flail around in a spin class and buy a reusable straw.

An unstitched patchwork of queer lives in queer times, THIS BITTER EARTH looks at how we fight, bitch, love, confront despair and try to connect, all through the mess and the muck and the might of everyday queer existence.

It’s an anthology of millennial crises, from drunken wine nights in dirty hostels to cooked confessions in club-adjacent alleyways. It’s vicious, it’s tender, it hates being touched but it kinda needs a hug.

CREATIVES

DIRECTOR | RILEY SPADARO

SET + COSTUME | GRACE DEACON

LIGHTING | PHOEBE PILCHER

CAST

MITCHELL BOURKE

MICHAEL CAMERON

ELLE MICKEL

MATTHEW PREDNY

ARIADNE SGOUROS

SASHA SIMON

Production photography by Morgan Moroney

Previous
Previous

THE ITALIANS

Next
Next

HUBRIS & HUMILIATION (DEVELOPMENT)