SUDS Presents: Rabbit + Shower Thoughts - A Troubled Feature
Rabbit written and directed by Felix Tonkin
Shower Thoughts written and directed by Aidan Hale

6th - 14th October 2023
The Cellar Theatre

TICKETS: https://events.humanitix.com/suds-presents-rabbit-shower...

Doors open at 6:50PM
Show starts at 7PM

RABBIT:

What gives seemingly innocent children and teenagers the capacity to commit acts of violence and cruelty? Can they be forgiven?

After killing a rabbit, two teenage boys flee their school, fearing the repercussions. The play finds them hiding in an abandoned tunnel as they navigate their resultant guilt and paranoia.
An original work by Felix Tonkin, Rabbit explores themes of masculinity, coming of age, and betrayal. Stylistically dark, claustrophobic and minimal, yet often nonsensical, Rabbit’s eerie and off-the-wall tone makes it humorous and menacing at the same time.

SHOWER THOUGHTS:

She wants to get out. He wants to be left alone. Evelyn, a young girl acclimatised to her interconnected world, finds herself trapped in a decontamination room with Adam, a nihilistic and out-of-touch man. With no escape for either of them, both are forced to confront and question each other.

An original and offbeat work by Aidan Hale, Shower Thoughts is a play that explores the nature of thought, the contemporary role of absurdism, and human connection in a paradoxically inhuman world. Most importantly, it is a play about the fruitfulness of questions. After all, what’s the point of questioning if all you have to show for it is a stupid rubber duck?

RABBIT CAST
Benny: Connor Simos
Tom: Michael Sebastian
The Schoolmaster: Rowan Greaves

SHOWER THOUGHTS CAST
Adam: Jeremy Jenkins
Evelyn: Scout McWhinney

PRODUCTION TEAM
Rabbit Director: Felix Tonkin
Shower Thoughts Director: Aidan Hale
Producer: Rose Cooke
Assistant Producer: Alex McLeay
Costume Designer: Aqsa Suryana
Costume Assistant: Tamsyn Coetzee
Lighting Designer: Lucy Jeong
Lighting Assistant: Alexis Nguyen
Sound Designer: Harry Steele
Sound Assistant: Hugo Grizzti
Stage Manager: Mitchell Dihm
Props Master: Adele Beaumont
Graphic Designer: Dan Prichard
Photographer: Louis Beaumont
Production Assistant: Conor Bal

CONTENT WARNINGS
Rabbit:
Ableism
Sexual References
Explicit References/Simulated Depiction of Animal Cruelty

Shower Thoughts:
Nudity

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY:
SUDS acknowledges that the University of Sydney and the Cellar Theatre reside on stolen land; the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. As a society that exists to tell stories, it is important to acknowledge that stories were being told on this land for thousands of years before British colonisation.
SUDS pays respect to elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded – Always Was, Always Will Be Aboriginal Land.