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insightful … sprinkled with humour, warmth and honesty Carol Wimmer

a delightful historical comedy… cleverly structured. Captivating performances Paul Gilchrist

an entertaining and genuinely interesting work from a writer with a solid comic sensibility and real emotional intelligence. Cultural Binge

Following a popup season in 2025 for Sydney Fringe, Mariika Mehigan’s Agony is a hilarious reflection on Women’s Liberation and a love letter to the teenage girls who came of age as everything was changing.

Drawing on archival research into Australian women’s publications through the 1970s, and interrogating the range of feminist writings from the more moderate weekly magazines to radical presses, Agony blends humour and heartache as it explores sex, love, and womanhood on the cusp of Sydney’s sexual revolution in 1975

Director: Izzy Rizzo with Laetitia Opie, Louie O’Carroll, Sophie Newby, Callum Wilson, Barnaby Scott

Producer: Alexander Holiday