KXTeethcutting
is a regular FREE event at KXT providing a platform for recent graduates and emerging artists to match it with experiences artists as they throw themselves into some big roles, come big plays and some big ideas. Its time to sink or swim…
presented by LEGIT THEATRE CO
COVID SAFETY UPDATE masks must be worn at KXT.
SUNDAY 10 JULY at 7.30 PM
TRULY, MADLY, BRITNEY by Alberto Di Troia
Directed by Hannah Fallowfield with Danny Ball, Alex Beauman, Roman Delo, Chika Ikogwe, Emma Kew, Jack Richardson
a collaboration between Legit Theatre Co and Melbourne's Stage Mom
FREE || BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
This reading is a project over a year in the making. The team behind the play's 2019 inception - Melbourne-based director Hannah Fallowfield and playwright Alberto Di Troia - will join us to bring this hilarious and dark queer comedy to KXT, featuring a complete Sydney-based cast.
Britney Spears' #1 Australian fan, Steve, has dragged his boyfriend Adam all the way to Las Vegas to see Britney's concert residency. But things aren't going so well. For a start, they’re mistaken everywhere for long-defunct Aussie pop act Savage Garden. Their Airbnb host, Chad, is a closeted far-right Christian who’s convinced that Britney is his fiancee. And then they meet Judy, a narcissistic mother with a gun fetish, and her gay, terminally ill, ex-child star son Kevin, who has special backstage passes of his own
When Steve’s tickets are inexplicably cancelled, everything falls apart, and the couple are soon spiralling towards a brutal showdown behind the curtains of Britney’s glittering facade. Will they ever escape the dark heart of American pop culture - and find a way to love each other again?
Content warnings: Graphic sexual references/simulated sex, references to sexual assault, graphic violence and gun violence, graphic drug references, references to terminal illness and simulated vomit
SUNDAY 19 JUNE
CROCODILE FEVER by Meghan Tyler
Dir Camilla Turnbull with Emily Elise, Brooke Lee, Lynden Jones, Patrick Cullen, with stage directions read by Diego Retamales. Accent and dialect coaching by Laura Farrell, sound design by Alexander Lee-Rekers
The June reading takes us to Northern Ireland,1989. A farmhouse window smashes, and rebellious Fianna Devlin crashes back into the life of her pious sister Alannah. Together in the unlovely family home for the first time in years following the death of their tyrannical father, the sisters are back at each other’s throats in seconds. And when Fianna discovers that the old reptile is in fact still very much alive, all hell breaks loose as they confront his hideous legacy.
Fuelled by Taytos, gin, 80s anthems and a chainsaw, it’s the Devlin sisters versus the world. It can’t end happily, but it can end gloriously.
Content warnings: Graphic and violent content, references to violence and sexual abuse.
SUNDAY 15 May at 7.30 pm
TROLLOP by Maxine Mellor
Dir Mathew Lee with Clare Hennessy, Emma Kew, Madeleine Miller, Joshua Shediak and Annie Stafford
Trollop by Maxine Mellor was the winner of the 2012/2013 Queensland Premier’s Drama Award, and this reading marks the return of KXTeethcutting for 2022. Fresh from directing the award-winning Symphonie Fantastique, Legit Theatre Co.'s Mathew Lee will make his Teethcutting directorial debut with this Australian black comedy.
Clara is recently jobless and uncomfortably numb. Cocooned in her minimalist home, she wallows in tracky-dacks immobilized by the images of natural disasters piped into her living room by the pitiless glare of the TV, and haunted by what she could aspire to if she could break from her funk. Her relentlessly upbeat partner Erik has devised a plan for her to get back on her feet. Instead, she devises a series of increasingly gruesome ‘quests’ for him. Uncomfortable truths are revealed and there are hints of horrors to come, as ancient myths are dragged, growling, into the modern day
SUNDAY 20 JUNE at 7.30 pm
OFFICE HOUR by Julia Cho
One university student sits in the back of the classroom, wearing dark glasses, a baseball cap pulled down low…never speaking. His creative writing assignments are violent, twisted—and artless. He scares the other students. He scares the teachers.
Instructor Gina calls him to her office determined to target the cause.
Dir Kenneth Moraleda
With Monica Sayers, Jennifer Rani, Drew Wilson, Wern Mak and Jason Jefferies
SUNDAY 18 APRIL
THIS BEAUTIFUL FUTURE by Rita Kalnejais
In the dying days of the Second World War, a local French girl and teenaged German soldier fall in love in a house that was once a home to Jewish family. But this isn't a doomed tragedy, it's a pop culture-filled exploration of what love looks like, at all ages and across time, when there are vast gulfs between us.
Dir Tasnim Hossain with Nikita Waldron, Jack Walton, Susan Ling Young and Lex Marinos
presented by Legit Theatre Co + Panimo Creatives
SUNDAY 28 MARCH 7.30 PM
FIGHTING BY XAVIER COY
Fighting is an exploration into the mind of one man’s day as he traverses the highs and lows of bi-polar.
Dir Claudia Barrie With Lloyd Allison-Young, Jane Watt and Jay James-Moody
presented by Legit Theatre Co + Panimo Creatives
SUNDAY 14 FEBRUARY 7.30 PM
“what no one asked for but everyone needs” Legit Theatre Co
HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK
Dir Riley Spadaro
Cast Roy Joseph, Angela Sullen, Toby Blome, Will Bartolo, Lyn Lee, Ariadne Sgouros and Charlotte Friels
One year after Kevin McCallister was left home alone and had to defeat a pair of bumbling burglars, he accidentally finds himself stranded in New York City - and the same criminals are not far behind.
After the roaring success of last year's Home Alone, Riley Spadaro returns to adapt and direct John Hughes' sequel
SUNDAY 6 DECEMBER 7.30 PM
‘The virus continues to spread and in August 2020,
Helen goes through the address book on her phone and realises that over half of the people in it are now dead’.
THE HERE AND THIS AND NOW by Glenn Waldron
Dir Danny Ball With Kenneth Moraleda, Melissa Kahraman, Jeremi Campese and Cecilia Morrow
At an office away-day for pharmaceutical company McRabe - Gemma, Robby and Helen practice their sales pitches under the watchful eye of their boss, Niall. Through a series of corporate team building exercises, the employees grapple with the existential dread of their personal futures, and the future of humanity, entirely unaware of the global catastrophe that awaits them all.
TeethCutting co-founder Danny Ball returns to direct a staged reading of Glenn Waldron's The Here and This and Now... a play written in 2017 that seemed to predict the future.
SUNDAY 15 NOVEMBER 7.30 pm
After nearly eight months KXTeethCutting is back
YOU STUPID DARKNESS! by Sam Steiner
DIR Kim Hardwick
CAST Monica Sayers, Danny Ball, Julia Robertson, Justin Amankwah
presented by Legit Theatre
Everything’s been falling apart for a while now. In a small, run-down office four volunteers spend a few hours every Tuesday night phoning strangers to tell them everything is going to be ok. As the world outside crumbles, Frances, Joey, Angie and Jon teeter on the edge of their own personal catastrophes as they desperately try to connect on the phones and with each other.
The urgent and desperately funny You Stupid Darkness! by Sam Steiner is a very apt return to KXTeethcutting 2020 in our Covid-world, exploring the struggle for optimism and community amid the chaos of a collapsing world.
SUNDAY 1 MARCH 7.30 pm
Daddy by Jeremy O. Harris
Directed by Kenneth Moraleda
With Joseph Althouse, Simon Burke, Nancy Dennis, Monica Sayers, Maxwell Simon and Nikita Waldon
Daddy is a new searing play about race, sex, love and possession from the vital voice of Jeremy O. Harris (Slave Play). A surreal exploration of intimacy, family and the commodification of art, love and race.
Sunday 09 February 7.30 pm
LOCKOUT | by Jules Orcullo
pesented in partnership with Montague Basement
written and directed by Jules Orcullo with Mây Trần and Stella Ye.
an intimate two-hander which explores the instinct to protect: an authority’s instinct to protect its constituents, a doctor’s instinct to protect her patient; the body’s trauma response as an act of protection, protection as an act of love.
LEGIT THEATRE CO 2019
Sunday 22 December 7.30 pm
HOME ALONE
Based on the film by John Hughes || Adapted and directed by Riley Spadaro
CAST Ella Prince, Lyn Lee, Ursula Yovich, Roy Joseph, Ariadne Sgouros, Maverick Newman, Will Bartolo and Mia Morrissey.
Eight-year-old Kevin is accidentally left behind when his family leaves for France. At first, he is happy to be in charge, but when thieves try to break into his home, he has to put up a fight. Riley Spadaro and the KXTeethCutting team bring John Hughes' classic 1990 script to life. Join us for our final TeethCutting for 2019, and revel in a very merry Christmas... ya filthy animals!
SUNDAY 8 DECEMBER
THE WASP by Morgan lloyd Malcolm
Directed by Rebecca Blake | and featuring Eliza Scott, Cecilia Morrow and Deng Deng.
When Heather arranges a meeting with the woman she hasn’t seen since school, it is not to gloat. She comes with a bag stuffed with money and a business proposition. But why does Carla have to be the one to complete this gruesome task?
SUNDAY 17 NOVEMBER 5.00 PM
THE FAIRVIEW PRETERMS by Christopher Bryant
Directed by Alexander Berlarge
With Amy Hack, Emma Harview, Morgan Maguire, Wendy Mocke and Cecilia Morrow
SUNDAY 27 OCTOBER
L O V E C H I L D by Joanna Murray-Smith
Directed by Julia Robertson With Deborah Sintras and Annie Stafford
A reconciliation between a mother and the daughter she gave away at birth. Anna, living alone in a cold, stylish apartment she believes she has come to terms with her history, until a young woman called Billie arrives at her door.
Sunday 6 October
PAMONA BY ALISTAIR MCDOWELL
DIRECTOR Benjamin Sheen
WITH Stacey Duckworth, Mansoor Noor, Ebony Vagulans, Jack Richardson, Ella Prince, Kurt Ramjan and Eliza Scott.
Legit Theatre Co, bAKEHOUSE Theatre Company and Panimo bring you the next KXTeethcutting event: PAMONA by Alistair McDowall directed by Benjamin Sheen with a very special Panimo Networking Differently Event after.
Sunday 8 September
TONGUE TIED BY CLARE HENNESSY
DIRECTOR Sarah Hadley
WITH Shakira Clanton, Nic English, Mabel Li, Jack Richardson, Eloise Snape and Alex Stamell
For survivors of sexual assault, the legal system is broken. Survivors turn to journalists for justice. Media storms dictate innocence and guilt… and are good for sales. TONGUE TIED is a brand new play about the lengths one journalist will go to achieve justice.
Sunday 25 August 2019 at 7.30 pm
AUSTRALIAN OPEN BY ANGUS CAMERON
DIRECTOR Riley Spidaro
WITH Di Adams, Elle Mickel, Nicholas Papademetriou, Matthew Predny and Charles Upton and Ariadne Sgouros
It’s Felix’s 28th Birthday, but all his parents care about is his boyfriend Lucas’ loss to Roger Federer in last night’s Australian Open final. That is until Felix mentions that he and Lucas are in an open relationship – a backhand smash that kicks off a fast, fun and farcical game of doubles.
Sunday 28 July 2019
WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT…
a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884–1915 by Jackie Sibblies Drury
DIRECTOR Warwick Doddrell
WITH Mandela Mathia, Emma O’Sullivan, Jack Richardson, Jack Scott, Ebony Vagulans and Elijah Williams
KXTEETHCUTTING about
Thanks to Danny Ball and Hugo Kohne who launched this initiative back in 2017. It quickly became an essential booking in the KXT calendar, with full houses, big casts, strange plays and new work. We’ve programmed plays from their season, welcomed in directors, launched companies, and met new actors. And along the way Danny and Hugo built up a cool little KX community.
Annie Stafford and Mat Lee have launched LEGIT THEATRE CO and picked things up. Version 2.0 is looking good.
In 2019 you can head into the Dive Bar Artists Hangout Sunday arvo, pick up a happy hour drink and take in some of the most exciting plays done by some excellent sorts. If you're interested in being apart of a KXTeethCutting reading, come along and register your interest, network, socialise and watch some beautiful people work. email us at legittheatreco@gmail.com with any questions or inquiries.
What’s next? Head on over to Legit theatre co to keep up to date on all the news
Sunday 23 September 2018 at 7.30 pm
THE BEAST BY EDDIE PERFECT
DIRECTED BY DANNY BALL
With Cecilia Morrow, Ella Prince, Alex Stylianou, Eliza Scott, Mathew Lee, Ross Walker and Ariadne Sgouros.
After surviving a nasty near-death experience, a group of close friends wipe the slate clean and embrace a tree-change, living a sustainable life in the country. Think organic kale, turmeric lattes and Country Road Home. But nature isn’t always so welcoming, and when the friends are faced with the pressing task of killing a young cow, a chain reaction begins that will see them confront some ugly and shocking truths.
THEN ...
KXT MEET UP | following on from the KXTeethcutting read, Suzanne, John and Andrew will be hanging out in the foyer. Open to any and all! Drop in and say hi, tell us what you're up to, pitch an idea or project, ask a few questions, meet some folk. Got a problem you need to trouble shoot? We might just be able to recommend some people or a plan of action. Got a show on? Bring in some fliers. Or just want to know what's going on or what we're thinking about? This is your chance for a chat. We'll hang around afterwards, grab a beer from the bar, then head back for a chat
FOR THE DIARY: UPCOMING DATES
Sunday 4 November
Sunday 26 August 2018 at 7.30 pm
NORM'S by Alex Lee-Rekers
Late night at Norm's: a roadside cafe so beaten by years of traffic and not-traffic its era is impossible to determine. The decor is faded lino and vinyl and cool, desert air circulates through a pedestal fan that clangs against the jukebox with every oscillation. Waitress Karen dreams about Venice while her one regular, Cal, sips his beer and listens to her speak. In a nearby booth, young couple Bea and Sam are snuggled together, fast asleep. And outside--somewhere between the parking lot lamps and the black of the highway--two figures prepare to deliver life-altering news to those inside...
Norm's is a new Australian play about science and progress, good and evil and peanut butter pie.
Cast includes Toby Blome, Laura Djanegara, Ariadne Sgouros, Chris Miller, Nathalie Murray
Sunday 8 July 7.30 pm
CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION | by ANNIE BAKER
Directed by Joseph Brown.
With Anna Lee, Ariadne Sgouros, Chris Miller, Cait Burley, Martin Ashley Jones.
At an under-subscribed six-week acting class at a community college, four adults and their teacher go through their exercises designed to loosen their bodies, strengthen their voices and liberate their imaginations. Yet as the weeks pass, the participants discover that something utterly transformative is being created between them.
SUNDAY 22 APRIL 7.30 PM | free
Director: Anna McGrath
With: Julia Christenson; Lily Black; Jess-Belle Keogh; Tom Royce-Hampton; Joseph Althouse
TEAM: Ella Butler; Gavin Leahy; Casey Elder; Matteo Bernadini
MOVE OVER Carrie Bradshaw!
Bille, Judy, and Rhonda are friends and successful women living in New York City. However, one night, over dinner together, they realize they might not be as “successful” as they outwardly appear. Billie’s marriage, though fine on the surface, is actually stuck in a rut, Rhonda is hung up on an old boyfriend who left her, and Judy can’t get a date with a straight man.
"biting, smart-girl banter ... radiates a surprising urbanity and wit" NY TIMES
Come see an amazing cast bring this hilarious and insightful play to life.
SUNDAY 25TH MARCH 7.30 PM | free
Director: Maddy Humphries
With: Mansoor Noor; Nathalie Murray; Maryanne Fonceca; Tel Benjamin; Nic English; Ella Prince, Luke Yager
a raw, heartbreaking and truthful story about life spinning recklessly out of control.
Emma was having the time of her life. Now she’s in rehab. Her first step is to admit that she has a problem. But the problem isn’t with Emma, it’s with everything else. She needs to tell the truth. But she’s smart enough to know that there’s no such thing.
When intoxication feels like the only way to survive the modern world, how can she ever sober up?
sunday 18 february 2018 | 7.30 pm
Neighbour by Jordan Shea
a new work in development. Directed by Lucy Clements with: Mansoor Noor & Michelle Ny
7.30 PM START at KXT | FREE
afterwards, head to the ROOFTOP to hang with the team
When Yuni brings Simon to one of the most infamous borders in the world, truths come out as the South Korean native questions her longstanding friendship with the Canberra based conspiracy theorist.
Sunday 28 JANUARY 2018 | 7.30 pm
Kapow-i GoGo by Matt Cox
Directed by Rachel Kerry
With Stella Ye, Emily Edwards, Chris Ratcliffe, Ariadne Sguoros, Rachel Tunaley, Mark Barry, Jacob Mclean, Hagen Marsh-Brown, Francisco Lopez and Dallas Reedman
7.30 PM START at KXT | FREE
this is a free event. please click on the link to register
afterwards, head to the ROOFTOP to hang with the team
Her name is Kapow-i GoGo. And she's on a quest to become the Ultimate Warrior. But first, she'll have to collect the Hydra Crystals and fight a Space Demon! Matt Cox's Kapow-i GoGo Gooooo! is Part One in an epic, episodic live-action hybrid of Dragon Ball Z, Cyberpunk Space Operas, most of the Final Fantasies and every other after-school cartoon you watched in the mid-to-late '90s.
Stupid F#cking Bird by Aaron Posner
SUNDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2017
Directed by Kim Hardwick
With: Hugo Kohne, Ella Prince, Di Smith, James Lugton, Ariadne Sgouros. More TBA
In this irreverent, contemporary, and very funny remix of Chekhov’s The Seagull, Aaron Posner stages a timeless battle between young and old, past and present, in search of the true meaning of it all. This splendid, irreverent adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull will tickle, tantalize, and incite you to consider how art, love, and revolution fuel your own pursuit of happiness.
5.00 PM START at KXT | FREE
this is a free event. please click on the link to register
afterwards, head to the Dive Bar to hang with the team
Blue Heart by Caryl Churchill
sunday 15 OCTOBER 2017
Directed by Benjamin Sheen
With: Enya Daly, Nic English, Vaishnavi Suryaprakash, Kyle Kaczmarczyk, Eliza Scott, Laura Charlotte, Kate Cheel and Emma Kew.
Heart’s Desire: Brian and his wife Alice, together with Brian's sister Maisie, are waiting for the arrival of their daughter Susy, who is returning home after some years spent in Australia. A simple domestic scenario is replayed over and over with widely differing developments – some heartbreaking, some wildly comical or surreal.
Blue Kettle: a middle-aged man, Derek, and his girlfriend, Enid, are involved in a con trick, making a series of elderly women believe that Derek is the son they once gave up for adoption. But as the situation develops, the play's dialogue undergoes a radical distortion with characters using the words 'blue' and 'kettle', apparently at random, and to an extent that grows increasingly disruptive.
7.30 PM START at KXT | FREE
this is a free event. please click on the link to register
afterwards, head to the Dive Bar to hang with the team
The Cold Child by Marius Von Mayenburg
august 20 at 6.30 pm
Directed by Carissa Licciardello
With Emily Weir, Julia Robertson, Mathew Lee, Meg Clarke, Nathalie Murray, Ryan Morgan, Richard Hilliar, Simon Croker
A darkly funny farce, a cubist nightmare of overlapping realities. In von Meyerburg’s nightmarish, sadistic and masochistic world, power is with the men. Until, that is, the tables are decisively, violently turned…
this is a free event - seating limited
the team will be hanging out afterwards in the DIVE BAR, head on down for a chilled post show chat
Mercury Fur by Philip Ridley
JULY 2 at 7.30 pm
Directed by Jessica Arthur
With Danny Ball, Eliza Scott, Meg Rèmus Clarke, Hugo Köhne, Charlie Cashion, Cecilia Morrow, Michael McStay, Mansoor Noor