Playdate. Antivax. Almond Milk.
Welcome to Mum Club.
Rule One: Every mum is held with love and kindness, no matter who they are.
Rule Two: Drink cow’s milk and you’re OUT.
Sadie’s just moved to Sydney. She’s a young Martu mum, completely fried from trying to settle a screaming baby in a rental the size of a change table.
What she needs is a support network. Instead, she stumbles into the Inner West Mum Club. There’s Corporate Mum (took a Zoom call an hour after crowning), Antivax Mum (burns sage at sleepovers) and Well-Meaning Mum (acknowledges Country every time she enters a new postcode).
They’re all Sadie’s got by way of friends. But as the pressure to “do motherhood right” cranks up to eleven, Sadie starts to question what she’s willing to compromise in order to find community.
From the mind of the luminously funny Jorjia Gillis featuring an all-star ensemble helmed by Stephanie Somerville, Mum Club is a sharp takedown of modern parenting culture—and a love letter to the messy, funny, glorious resilience of Blak motherhood.
Director Ian Michael
Dramaturg Dylan Van Den Berg
Designer Cris Baldwin
Costume Co-Designer Keerthi Subramanyam
Lighting Designer Verity Hampson
Composer and Sound Designer Brendon Boney
Movement & Fight Director Tim Dashwood
Intimacy Director Chloë Dallimore
Vocal Coach Angela Sullen
Associate Director Abbie-lee Lewis
Associate Sound Designer & Programmer Daniel Herten
Stage Manager Taylah Crouch
With Alex Malone, Megan Wilding, Ruby Teys, Stephanie Somerville, Zarif
Presented in association with Belvoir St Theatre
Venue
Downstairs Theatre, Belvoir
Previews 22 – 26 August
Opening Nights 27 & 28 August
Season 29 August – 20 September
Performance Times
Tuesday – Friday 7pm
Saturday 1pm & 7pm
Sunday 5.30pm*
*Except Sunday 23 August
Meet The Artists Tuesday 1 September
Theatre Club Thursday 10 September
Captioned Performance Wednesday 9 September
Babes in Arms Wednesday 2 September 11.30am, Thursday 10 September 11.30am
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Run time is approximately 90mins, no interval.
GENERAL RELEASE TICKETS
Full from $69
Senior from $65
Concession from $57
Under 35 from $48
Rush Tickets $25
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“Ian Michael ensures the dizzyingly fast and funny text doesn’t drown out the tender and unapologetic underpinning sentiment.” ★★★★—Claira Prider, Theatre Thoughts
“Mum Club is a nuanced, hilarious and necessarily confronting play.”—Charlotte Farrell, The Conversation
“Stephanie Somerville…is transcendent.”—Suzy Wrong, Suzy Goes See
“There is a relief in seeing this profoundly graceless period rendered on stage with so much humour.”—Vaanie Krishnan, Limelight
“Funny, ferocious and gloriously off-kilter.”—Faith Jessel, Faith in Theatres
“Mum Club is a highly enjoyable show milking (pun intended) Sydney stereotypes and balanced beautifully between the sweet and the unhinged.”—Marine Grangier, South Sydney Herald
This production of Mum Club contains strong language, depictions of medical and birth trauma, childbirth, medical procedures during childbirth, medical malpractice, references to genitalia and depictions of racism. The production also includes loud and sudden sounds, theatrical haze and flashing lights.
Mum Club was developed as part of Griffin Studio with support from the Malcolm Robertson Foundation and Griffin Studio donors. This production is supported by Griffin Studio Workshop donors and Malcolm Robertson Foundation.
WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
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