BLACKPILL:
REDUX
BY CHRIS PATRICK HANSEN
7 - 17 JANUARY | THEATRE WORKS
BY CHRIS PATRICK HANSEN
Did you think we were done with you, big dogs?
After a record-breaking sold-out season at Explosives Factory in 2025, the critical smash-hit BLACKPILL. storms back to open the Theatre Works 2026 season this January.
As online-based misogynistic hate communities grow both in size and vitriol, embittered members are designing increasingly effective ways to recruit and radicalise young boys behind the protection of chilling anonymity.
Dubbed ""A highly accomplished show in all areas"", ""A phenomenally well developed and executed piece of theatre"" and ""a dynamic, thoughtful, throbbing contribution to an urgent conversation"" in its first run, BLACKPILL: REDUX has reloaded BLACKPILL bigger, bolder and better than ever before.
VENUE
THEATRE WORKS
14 Acland Street, St Kilda
DURATION
120 minutes (incl. interval)
WARNINGS
References to sexual violence (discussed not depicted), coarse and violent language, depictions of misogyny, references to terrorism.
ACCESSIBILITY
Theatre Works is a wheelchair accessible venue. A full access guide will be available closer to the date.
"A phenomenally well developed and executed piece of theatre."
- The Blurb
"All aspects of this production are excellent"
- Stage Whispers
"A dynamic, thoughtful, throbbing contribution to an urgent conversation"
- Praise Dionysus!
"The best piece of theatre I have seen in a very, very long time"
- Noah Sargent, Playwright
DATES + TIMES
Wednesday 7 January - 7:30pm (Preview)
Thursday 8 January - 7:30pm (Opening)
Friday 9 January - 7:30pm
Saturday 10 January - 7:30pm
Tuesday 13 January - 7:30pm
Wednesday 14 January - 7:30pm
Thursday 15 January - 7:30pm
Friday 16 January - 7:30pm
Saturday 17 January - 7:30pm
Theatre Works has a lockout policy for latecomers. Please arrive at least 15 minutes early to ensure you don't miss out.
Refunds will not be issued to latecomers.
TICKETS
FULL PRICE
CONCESSION*
PREVIEW
$48.00
$38.00
$30.00
*Seniors, Student, MEAA, Health Care and Low Income card holders
Shows in the WITH THEATRE WORKS stream align strongly our values and missions - these works we co-produce and co-present with independent artists and/or companies. Projects within this stream receive significant producing, marketing, PR and production support in addition to free use of the venue and a generous box office split.
CREDITS
CREATED AND DIRECTED BY
Chris Patrick Hansen
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR
Sian Quinn Dowler
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Tijen Irmak
VISION AND LIGHTING DESIGNER
Jacques Cooney Adlard
SET DESIGNER
Joshua McNeill
SOUND DESIGN BY
Paracosm
DRAMATURGY
Nick Jay
Rosa Ablett-Johnstone
DANCE CAPTAIN
Natasha Bowers
CAST
Oliver Tapp (as Eli)
Bailey Griffiths (as High Value Male / Eli Alternate)
Eleanor Golding (as Carina / Ditsy)
Lilian Hudson (as Ditsy / Carina)
Seon Williams (as Gemma / Onecel)
Natasha Bowers (as Onecel / Gemma)
Amelia Pawsey (as Pickme / Twocel)
Jessica David (as Twocel / Pickme)
Eddi Asher (as Hugh / Murphy)
Conagh Punch (as Murphy / Hugh)
Veronicka Devlin (as Kat / Fysh / Hinge)
Sian Quinn Dowler (as Hinge / Kat / Fysh)
MEET THE ARTIST
CHRIS PATRICK HANSEN
Chris Patrick Hansen began working as an actor and theatre-maker in Brisbane before moving to Narrm/Melbourne in 2019. He is a graduate of the Queensland Theatre Youth Ensemble, the Queensland Academy for Creative Industries (Awarded 2025 Outstanding Alumnus of the Year), APO Arts Academy and the Victorian College of the Arts where he completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts (Theatre). Chris’ other devising/directing credits include ‘Impetus’ (Paracosm) ‘The Queen Must Die!’ (VCA) and ‘Lucky Thirteen’ (Living Libraries SLQ). He was also a co-devisor of ‘Sometimes Always Rarely Never’ (VCA) and ‘AKA: Also Known As’ (Melbourne Digital Fringe). In addition to running Paracosm, Chris is the Australian Producer at Fruitcake Productions, a company focussed on debuting the work of early-career writers across Melbourne and the UK. In 2025, Chris wrote and directed the smash hit BLACKPILL., an interrogation of dangerous online subcultures that oversold its full initial season and was dubbed "phenomenally developed and excecuted, "highly accomplished in all areas" and "one of the best shows at Explosives Factory for some time". Later this year, Chris will direct KATZENMUSIK at Explosives Factory, shifting his focus to another pressing issue - Australia's housing crisis.
