Triple X single work   drama  
Note: Co-production: 2020
Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Triple X
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'Scotty has it all: a multimillion-dollar loft in downtown Manhattan, a high-flying Wall Street job, and he’s about to marry the perfect fiancée, who also happens to be loaded. But when he meets trans performance artist Dexie, he discovers he wants something more. A friend? A confidante? A lover?

'When the secret of their affair gets out, it’s sure to shock not only his dudebro Jase, his highly-strung mother Deb, and his lesbian activist sister Claire, but also a theatre audience strapped in for the ride of their lives.

'From the wickedly funny pen of Australian-born, New York-based playwright, comedienne and performer Glace Chase, this play is an hilarious, honest and emotionally affecting look at entitlement, hypocrisy, and the realities of love.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Production Details

  • Set to be produced by Queensland Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company at Bille Brown Theatre, Brisbane, 14 March to 4 April 2020, and at the Playhouse, Sydney Opera House, 30 April to 23 May 2020.

    Director: Paige Rattray.

    Designer: Renée Mulder.

    Lighting Designer: Ben Hughes.

    Composer/Sound Designer: Kelly Ryall.

    Cast includes Glace Chase, Josh McConville, Christen O’Leary, and Contessa Treffone.

    Queensland Theatre Company production postponed, but not initially cancelled, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Initial plans were made to include it, The Holidays, and Prima Facie, in a 'mini-season' from October 2020.

    Sydney Theatre Company production cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Presented by Queensland Theatre Company at the Bille Brown Theatre, 6 March - 1 April 2021.

    Director: Paige Rattray.

    Set to be produced by Sydney Theatre Company from 1 July 2021.

    Production postponed, but not initially cancelled, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Sydney Theatre Company production rescheduled for the 2022 season, 7 January - 26 February 2022, Wharf 1 Theatre.

    Director Paige Rattray.

    Designer Renée Mulder.

    Lighting Designer Ben Hughes.

    Composer & Sound Designer Kelly Ryall.

    Intimacy & Fight Director Nigel Poulton.

    Cast: Glace Chase, Josh McConville, Christen O'Leary, Contessa Treffone, and Elijah Williams.

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First known date: 2020
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Works about this Work

“I'm a Polite Visitor in This World” Glace Chase and Lally Katz in Conversation Glace Chase (interviewer), Lally Katz (interviewer), 2022 single work interview
— Appears in: Contemporary Australian Playwriting : Re-visioning the Nation on the Mainstage 2022;
Telling Stories in Person Chris Hay , Stephen Carlton , 2022 single work criticism
— Appears in: Contemporary Australian Playwriting : Re-visioning the Nation on the Mainstage 2022;

'This chapter turns to autobiography and the body of work from 2007 to 2020 that places the playwright on stage, whether inside or outside the fictional frame, building on the interest in biography and craving for authenticity that has accelerated in the post-truth age. To outline a range of iterations of the autobiographical pact on the Australian mainstage, our three case studies cover: Lally Katz’s Stories I Want to Tell You in Person (2013), Blue Bones (2017) by Merlynn Tong, and Glace Chase’s Triple X (2020) – fittingly, the play we saw together on the last night before Covid-lockdowns kicked in. Chase and Katz then discuss the stories they tell and the parts of themselves they keep offstage in a duologue.'  (Publication abstract)
Glace Chase Writes Trans Love Onto Australian Theatre's Main Stage with Triple X at Sydney Theatre Company Hannah Story , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , January 2022;
— Review of Triple X Glace Chase , 2020 single work drama

'Glace Chase knew she needed to be the person to write the first trans love story to premiere on Australian main stages.' 
[Review] Triple X Cassie Tongue , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 29 January - 4 February 2022;
— Review of Triple X Glace Chase , 2020 single work drama 'Material aspiration clashes with true romance in Glace Chase’s open-hearted play Triple X. By Cassie Tongue.' 
Theatre Review : Triple X, Queensland Theatre Federica Caso , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , March 2021;
— Review of Triple X Glace Chase , 2020 single work drama

'A brave and bold exploration of identity politics.'
[Review] Triple X Cassie Tongue , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 29 January - 4 February 2022;
— Review of Triple X Glace Chase , 2020 single work drama 'Material aspiration clashes with true romance in Glace Chase’s open-hearted play Triple X. By Cassie Tongue.' 
Glace Chase Writes Trans Love Onto Australian Theatre's Main Stage with Triple X at Sydney Theatre Company Hannah Story , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , January 2022;
— Review of Triple X Glace Chase , 2020 single work drama

'Glace Chase knew she needed to be the person to write the first trans love story to premiere on Australian main stages.' 
Theatre Review : Triple X, Queensland Theatre Federica Caso , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , March 2021;
— Review of Triple X Glace Chase , 2020 single work drama

'A brave and bold exploration of identity politics.'
Telling Stories in Person Chris Hay , Stephen Carlton , 2022 single work criticism
— Appears in: Contemporary Australian Playwriting : Re-visioning the Nation on the Mainstage 2022;

'This chapter turns to autobiography and the body of work from 2007 to 2020 that places the playwright on stage, whether inside or outside the fictional frame, building on the interest in biography and craving for authenticity that has accelerated in the post-truth age. To outline a range of iterations of the autobiographical pact on the Australian mainstage, our three case studies cover: Lally Katz’s Stories I Want to Tell You in Person (2013), Blue Bones (2017) by Merlynn Tong, and Glace Chase’s Triple X (2020) – fittingly, the play we saw together on the last night before Covid-lockdowns kicked in. Chase and Katz then discuss the stories they tell and the parts of themselves they keep offstage in a duologue.'  (Publication abstract)
“I'm a Polite Visitor in This World” Glace Chase and Lally Katz in Conversation Glace Chase (interviewer), Lally Katz (interviewer), 2022 single work interview
— Appears in: Contemporary Australian Playwriting : Re-visioning the Nation on the Mainstage 2022;
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