Take a sneak peak into the final rehearsals of  FEMOID.  as they get ready to open at Explosives Factory next week. We were laughing, we were joking, we were girls. FEMOID. confronts the dark, growing presence of misogyny in contemporary society. Combining text, voice-over, and projection, the show draws from verbatim incel forum board posts and merges them with in-yer-face theatre to create a visceral and unsettling experience. It offers a rare insight into the complex ideo

In today's Backstage Blog, we spoke to Iris Warren, playwright and performer in FEMOID. , which follows up it's successful 2025 Perth season with a run at Explosives Factory next week before heading to Sydney next month. FEMOID.  confronts the dark, growing presence of misogyny in contemporary society. Combining text, voice-over, and projection, the show draws from verbatim incel forum board posts and merges them with in-yer-face theatre to create a visceral and unsettling e

The Port Arthur Massacre serves as a backdrop to this extraordinary chamber piece about rebuilding after tragedy. The four stories told in this delicate, poetic and quintessentially Australian text steer away from sensationalising the Port Arthur massacre and focus on the effects of loss and violence on people and their fragile journey towards healing.  The play is set ten years after Martin Bryant shot and killed thirty-five people and wounded twenty more at Port Arthur  on