Bad Boy
...tackles the enormous and distressing issue of misogyny and domestic violence.
A searing new work co-created by three of Melbourne’s most acclaimed theatre makers
– writer Patricia Cornelius, director Susie Dee and performer Nicci Wilks.
Bad Boy, tackles the enormous and distressing issue of misogyny and domestic violence. The female actor, Nicci Wilks, openly plays a male role. The gender inversion heightens the examination into male behaviour to create a more disturbing, more clarifying and fascinating take.
26th Sept -13 Oct 2024 Fortyfivedownstairs Theatre
Credits
Susie Dee – Director, Co-creator
Patricia Cornelius – Writer, Co-creator
Nicci Wilks – Performer, Co-creator
Romanie Harper – Designer
Kelly Ryall – Sound Designer/Composer
Jenny Hector – Lighting Designer
Michelle Heaven – Movement Consultant
Harry Dowling- Stage/Prod Manager
BAD BOY deals with this difficult – but so disgracefully common – feature of our society in a powerful one-woman performance that lays bare the sickening ordinariness of domestic abuse. The writing is lyrical, and evokes a modern Banjo Paterson-like rhythm, situating Bad Boy as contemporary epic poem, a tragedy of Aussie toxic masculinity.
Wilks is nothing short of extraordinary.
★★★★
Kate Mulqueen - Arts Hub