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