2020 has been a rough year. The cost of Covid to the arts community is immeasurable and we expect to feel its impact for years to come. At a time when audience numbers were limited meaning producers were unable to manage realistic budgets and pay artists, we decided to open the doors of KXT to our artistic community. thanks to the generous support of our partners at KX Hotel, we’ve been able to spend the past few months developing work, offering peer networking, connecting early career artists with industry mentors and upskilling producers.
RILEY SPADARO & LEWIS TRESTON
Hubris & Humiliation By Lewis Treston
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a bogan mother who has lost her home to a predatory cat fish, must send her only gay son to Sydney to marry rich. Elliott Delaney, mediocre looking, kinda bright, poor as shit, understands that he must meet, woo and marry a member of Sydney’s homosexual aristocracy... but he’s still very much in love with his best friend back home, who is in love with someone else. In Sydney, is it better to be bold or will hubris only lead to humiliation?
From the pen of Patrick White Award winning playwright Lewis Treston and directed by self-proclaimed prince of camp Riley Spadaro comes Hubris & Humiliation, a Jane Austen inspired, raucous rom-com.
Workshop cast includes: Toby Blome, Gerard Carroll, Roman Delo, Shannon Dooley, Patrick Jhanur, Emma Kew and Elle Mickel.
A full house joined us for a public reading of Hubris & Humiliation at KXT on Wednesday 2 December at 6.30 pm.
pics: Matthew Predny
BITE PRODUCTIONS
PORPOISE POOL by Jojo Zhou
Bite Productions spends time developing emerging playwright Jojo Zhou’s Porpoise Pool ~ a one-woman show about gratification, expectation and our complicated relationship with technology.
BITE PRODUCTIONS
TWO TWENTYSOMETHINGS DECIDE NEVER TO BE STRESSED ABOUT ANYTHING EVER AGAIN. EVER by Michael Costi
Originally programmed for KXT2020 this production was in the final days of rehearsal, and only a few days away from bump in when lockdown forced the cancellation of all seasons. In the light of a global pandemic, isolation and social distancing, Michael Costi heads back into the room with the cast for an update
RATCATCH THEATRE
THE LINDEN SOLUTION by Alexander Lee-Rekers
Writer Alexander Lee-Rekers and Director Camilla Turnbull will be helming this development at KXT, working with performers Laura Djanegara, Lib Campbell, Mason Phoumirath and Patrick Cullen. They are thrilled to be working together again to further develop The Linden Solution for a new, uncertain world
In the time since the world shut down our economy went into freefall, a virus killed hundreds of thousands, QAnon conspiracies ran rife, class disparities grew more apparent, borders closed down, the climate emergency worsened, and underlying bigotries gained ground and ammunition
EYE CONTACT THEATRE
THE PARK by Simon Thomson (Storytellers Festival) in development with Emma Wright (Blue Christmas) and Jess Davis. Shortlisted for the 2020 Silver Gull Award
Eye Contact Theatre Co were to be staging Breathing Corpses by Laura Wade as part of the KXT2020 season. This production will be held over to 2021. Pick up your Pay It Forward tickets via the link on the KXT website
Sunshine in Paddington chronicles three Sydney residents trying to make it; one’s an artist, the other a Chemist, and the new roommate? Wants to change the world…As we follow the events and stories of these characters, we get a glimpse into the counter-cultural movements of the last 30 years, from Ohms Not Bombs to today.
Led by KXT Production Assistant Charlie Vaux with Jasper Lee-Lindsay, Alice Ireland, Mat Lee, Lizzie Sheridan
FIGHTING by Xavier Coy
Director Claudia Barrie With Jay James-Moody, Lloyd Alison-Young and Jude Gibson
Fighting is an exploration into the mind of someone grappling with the day to day challenges of mental health. Xavier has battled mental health issues for years and decided to explore those challenges in Fighting.
“I had to find a way to channel what was happening in my head into the best way I know how, a play. This is the scariest play I’ve ever written – it’s the truest representation of how my brain works. I hope this can be an engaging, funny and moving play to continue to converse about the challenges of mental health.”
Director Claudia Barrie (Dry Land; You Got Older; DNA) gets together with Jay James-Moody (Herringbone), Lloyd Alison-Young (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Coram Boy) and the fab Jude Gibson (Straight) to take a look at new writing from one of Sydney’s most exciting young talents.