Bad Boy single work   drama  
Date: 2024
Issue Details: First known date: 2024... 2024 Bad Boy
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'The team behind the acclaimed production of RUNT – writer Patricia Cornelius (Do not go gentle…), director Susie Dee (Savages), and performer Nicci Wilks (SHIT) – present a bold, tough, and powerful new work tackling the enormous issue of misogyny and domestic violence.

'It’s time to take on this most difficult of subjects using the power of the metaphorical, the appeal of a language that is both grungy and poetic, and the often surprisingly comedic, visceral, physical strengths of the performer. Wilks will inhabit the character of BAD BOY, a female actor openly playing a male role. The gender inversion heightens the examination into male behaviour, creating a more disturbing and clarifying take.

'Much of BAD BOY is in the power of what is unspoken but what is said is electrifying.'

Source: Production blurb.

Production Details

  • Presented by Dee, Cornelius, and Wilks in association with fortyfivedownstairs at fortyfivedownstairs theatre, Melbourne, 26 September - 6 October 2024.

    Director: Susie Dee.

    Performer: Nicci Wilks.

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Works about this Work

Bad Boy : A Further Collaboration between Patricia Cornelius and Susie Dee Ben Brooker , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 470 2024; (p. 40)

— Review of Bad Boy Patricia Cornelius , 2024 single work drama

'Bad Boy is the second work in a series of what playwright Patricia Cornelius and director Susie Dee have called ‘visceral dramatic monologues’. The first, RUNT (2021), centred on the unnamed homunculus of the play’s title, portrayed with memorable physical intensity and dexterity by Nicci Wilks. Bad Boy reunites all three of RUNT’s lead creatives, as well as Romanie Harper (set and costumes), Kelly Ryall (sound), and Jenny Hector (lighting), in a head-on response to the intractable social problems of misogyny and male violence.' (Introduction)

Acclaimed Australian Theatre-makers Take Centre Stage at Melbourne Fringe Festival Alison Croggon , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 5-11 October 2024;

— Review of Bad Boy Patricia Cornelius , 2024 single work drama
Acclaimed Australian Theatre-makers Take Centre Stage at Melbourne Fringe Festival Alison Croggon , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 5-11 October 2024;

— Review of Bad Boy Patricia Cornelius , 2024 single work drama
Bad Boy : A Further Collaboration between Patricia Cornelius and Susie Dee Ben Brooker , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 470 2024; (p. 40)

— Review of Bad Boy Patricia Cornelius , 2024 single work drama

'Bad Boy is the second work in a series of what playwright Patricia Cornelius and director Susie Dee have called ‘visceral dramatic monologues’. The first, RUNT (2021), centred on the unnamed homunculus of the play’s title, portrayed with memorable physical intensity and dexterity by Nicci Wilks. Bad Boy reunites all three of RUNT’s lead creatives, as well as Romanie Harper (set and costumes), Kelly Ryall (sound), and Jenny Hector (lighting), in a head-on response to the intractable social problems of misogyny and male violence.' (Introduction)

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