Running Time:
75 mins
Warnings and Additional Information:
This production uses theatrical haze. It contains frequent, strong coarse language and adult themes including sexual assault, pregnancy, abortion, and drug and alcohol use.
Recommended for ages 15+.
We understand the themes may be triggering for some people. If you would like more detail about the specific content of the play, we encourage you to contact MO: mo.theatrenow@gmail.com
If you or someone you know needs information or support, these organisations are there to help:
Queensland Sexual Assault Helpline - 1800 010 120
1800 RESPECT - 1800 737 732
Jude is angry. Susie has a secret.
When Jude is arrested for kicking off in a café full of passive-aggressive "yummy mummies," she’s sent to Anger Management. Susie, determined to make sure Jude’s next jumpsuit isn’t one with a serial number, tags along. But Susie’s not just there for moral support—she’s also got something to get off her chest.
In this no-holds-barred, G&T-fueled D&M, the sisters dive into the mess of adulting, expectations of motherhood and a woman’s worth. It’s a middle finger to the labels we’re forced to wear, and a chance to figure out who the hell we are now we’re all grown up.
PRAMKICKER is touring throughout Western QLD supported by Red Ridge Touring Circuit.
Creatives
Playwright Sadie Hasler Co-Director Amy Ingram Co-Director and Choreographer Nerida Matthaei
Designer Ada Lukin
Lighting Designer Christine Felmingham Sound Designer Brady Watkins
Stage Manager Lucy Kelland
Assistant Stage Manager Thea Raveneau Photography Lara Furst
Cast
Jude Sarah McLeod
Susie Sarah Ogden
CREATIVES
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PLAYWRIGHT
Sadie Hasler is a multi award-winning playwright, actor, and columnist. She has worked widely in Theatre, TV & Radio, and on the international comedy circuit. Her plays Pramkicker, Fran & Leni and Stiletto Beach are published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. They have been produced in Washington DC, Chicago, Sydney, Melbourne, Oslo, Rome, Milan, Asti, London, Edinburgh, & around the UK. Misfits is published by Salamander Street.
Sadie is co Founder/Artistic Director of theatre company Old Trunk, is on the board of the Working Class Writers Festival, is co founder of Concrete Culture, and is a founding member of the grassroots intersectional feminist group All Rise Collective. She has been featured in exhibitions: THINGS, SALT, This Is What An Essex Girl Looks Like, and Essexism.
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George is a proud Yiman and Darumbul man, born and raised in Magandjin/Brisbane. He is a multidisciplinary technician, currently serving as the Technical Coordinator for La Boite Theatre. George has many credits across community and independent theatre, as well as the Queensland Ballet, and La Boite Theatre. As a Lighting Designer, his credits include; Alice by Heart (Phoenix Ensemble), Frankenstein, Ebenezer, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Brisbane Arts Theatre), Ride the Cyclone (Vox Theatre Arts). As a Stage Manager, their credits include; Puffs, High School Musical, Ebenezer (Brisbane Arts Theatre). Other production credits include; Lighting Operator - Eat Slay Zombie, Antigone (La Boite Theatre), Fancy Long Legs (La Boite Theatre, Little Red Company), Yoga Play (La Boite Theatre, NToP), LX Programer & Operation - Macbeth (La Boite Theatre), Floor Technician - We’re All Gonna Die! (Dead Puppet Society, La Boite Theatre), Bespoke 2024, Academy Gala (Queensland Ballet).
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Nerida has over 20 years experience as a multi-award winning choreographer, movement director, artistic director, performer and intimacy coordinator for stage and screen globally. The underlying pulse of her work comes from an ingrained passion for contemporary choreographic practice as a beautifully planned anarchy of mind-body collaboration. Driven by challenging socio-political orthodoxy and breaking conventions through physical performance, she is a much sought-after collaborator across artistic sectors internationally. She is extremely generous with her skills and time, not only collaborating and leading arts projects around the world, but investing in grassroots programs benefiting the local independent and community sectors. With over 400 credits Nerida has worked with many artists and companies and prides herself on collaboration and interdisciplinarity. Recent highlights include the premier of her new dance-theatre work The Next 14 Seconds, choreography, intimacy and movement director of Queensland Theatre’s Pride and Prejudice, choreography, movement and intimacy on Trent Dalton’s Love Stories, collaborating South Korean company Sadari Movement Lab on Bottari, as guest choreographer for 2024 Motion Mongolia Contemporary Dance Festival and direction of the multi-award winning short film Proximal. Nerida is an accredited Intimacy Coordinator and has a Doctorate of Creative Industries (research) specialising in choreographic practice. Nerida is also the founder and artistic director of Phluxus2 Dance Collective.
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Amy is a multi-award-winning actor and theatre-maker based in Brisbane .
Credits Include : Queensland Theatre : Pride and Prejudice , Family Values, Bernhardt /Hamlet , The Odd Couple, The Seagull, Trollop, Seeding Bed, Fat Pig. Other Credits: Complete Works Of William Shakespeare Abridged ( QPAC ) , MML Worldwide : Magic Mike Live Australia. Shake N’ Stir : Fourteen ( Brisbane Festival and National Tour ) The Good Room : I Want To Know What Love Is, One Bottle Later, I Just Came To Say Goodbye, I Should Have Drunk More Champagne, Where We Begin, Rabbit, Single Admissions, Holy Guacamole. Myths Made Here and QPAC: Cinderella. La Boite Theatre Company: Blackrock, The Tragedy of King Richard The Third, Cosi. Metro Arts: Awkward Conversation: Medea Redux. The Old Fitz and Justin Martin: Low Level Panic. Elbow Room: We Get It, Adelaide Fringe and Rebecca Meston: Tracksuit Girl and many more.
TV/Media: Apples Never Fall, The Demon Disorder, Boy Swallows Universe , In Our Blood, Joe Vs Carol , Young Rock, Mabo
As Co Creator: The Good Room: Let’s Be Friends Furever, I’ve Been Meaning To Ask You, Dirty Laundry, Red Light, One Bottle Later, That’s What She Said, I Want To Know What Love Is, I Just Came To Say Goodbye, I Should Have Drunk More Champagne, Where We Begin. Positions: Co Founder and Co Artistic Director of The Good Room, Co Founder of Myths Made Here, QLD Equity Branch Council 2020- 2024, Co Director of National Young Writers Festival ( 2007/2008). Awards: Sydney Theatre Awards : Best Theatre for Young People ( I’ve Been Meaning To Ask You 2020 ), Matilda Awards: Best Supporting (Fourteen 2022, Best Female Actor in a Leading Role (Cinderella 2019 ), Best Emerging Artist ( Fat Pig and Single Admissions 2010) and Best Supporting Actor – in a Mainstage production – Matilda Awards 2022.
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Sarah is a Brisbane based actor, director and teaching artist. Her theatre credits include: Queensland Theatre: Othello, The Dark Room (Playclub), Death of a Salesman, Tracks (Creative Development with Belloo Creative), The Murder of Nellie Duffy (Creative Development), An Octoroon; La Boite: An Ideal Husband (Swing); The Final Bow - Farewell to Hale Street; Melbourne Theatre Company: The Crucible, Top Girls; Arena/Malthouse: Moth (National Tour); Bell Shakespeare: Actors At Work; Metro Arts/Hive: The Bull, The Moon and The Coronet of Stars and Gordon/Frost: The Secret Garden (National Tour 1995). Sarah has also worked and created with a host of independent companies including The Good Room, Counterpilot, Shari Indriani, That Theatre Company, The Hayloft Project, Stuck Pigs Squealing, Winterfell, Kit Brookman/ La Mama and The Daniel Schlusser Ensemble. Film: Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis; Television: Stories I Want to Tell You in Person, The Wayne Manifesto. As Director: Queensland Theatre Young Artists Ensemble: Algorithm; Moth; La Boite Assembly: Quick Fixes; Backbone Ensemble: POTLUCK; Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University: Measure for Measure; As Facilitator: The Good Room: I’ve Been Meaning To Ask You. Training: VCA (Acting), QUT (Theatre Studies). Awards: Orloff Family Charitable Trust Award (VCA); Matilda Award Nomination, Best Supporting Actor Main Stage (Othello); Green Room Nomination, Best Female Actor Main Stage (Moth). Sarah is a proud Member of the MEAA.
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Sarah Ann McLeod is an actor, puppeteer and teaching artist. Sarah's acting credits include, Antony and Cleopatra (4MBS Shakespeare Festival); Fuel (Matilda Nominee Best Actor in Independent Production Shock Therapy Arts); Macbeth (4MBS Shakespeare Festival); Cluedo, The New Suspects (Brisbane Immersive); That's What She Said (The Good Room); Camp Quality Primary School Program (Camp Quality); An Experiment with The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Queensland Music Festival, Elbow Room and Backbone Youth Arts); Prehistoric (Elbow Room); Australia Day (Hoodlum/Foxtel);Tiptoe (Matilda Nominee Best Supported Female Actor Pentimento Productions); The Box (Backbone Youth Arts); Sophie Is…(Soapbox Theatre Productions); Unplugged! (Artslink QLD), Cosi, The Taming of the Shrew, O Woe Is Me andTwelfth Night (Soapbox Theatre Productions)
Sarah has a BA of Arts in Applied Theatre with a Masters in Secondary Teaching. She is a proud member of the MEAA.
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Ada Lukin is a Meanjin based writer, actor, director, and artist. Her most notable works are ‘Hello Stranger’ and ‘The Bluff’, two original plays that found success on Brisbane stages in 2022, with ‘Hello Stranger’ taking home multiple awards from the Anywhere Theatre Festival. Matilda nominated (2024) she is an emerging artist that is eager to introduce more design work into her theatrical practice. Her most recent design work was set design for 'Love Lies Bleeding' at Ad Astra (2024)
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Teegan is a Matilda Award nominated lighting designer and production manager based in
Brisbane/Meanjin. They hold a Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary and Applied Theatre from
Griffith University and have worked across theatre, dance, circus, performance art, drag, and
live music in many capacities. Teegan has served as Venue and Technical Coordinator at Metro
Arts and is currently the Production Manager at La Boite Theatre. As a lighting designer,
Teegan’s credits include Antigone, Macbeth, and Fancy Long Legs (La Boite Theatre),
Matriarchs and [gameboy] (Metro Arts), Mystery Quest (Indel Arts), The Norman Mailer
Anecdote (Queensland Theatre, Bis Scary Animal Productions), She (Indelability Arts, Metro
Arts), Bliss (The Good Room, Bleach Festival), When the Rain Stops Falling and Blood
Wedding (QUT), and So Many Splintered Parts (Assembly of Elephants, All Forms Considered,
Queensland Theatre).
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Christine is a Queensland-based creative who has been a lighting designer for the past decade. She has been nominated three times for a Matilda Award, for her lighting designs on Adrift (Counterpilot, 2022); Bunker (Lisa Wilson Projects, 2022); & The Bull, The Moon and The Coronet of Stars (The Hive Collective, 2021).
In 2019 she was presented with the inaugural Emerging Female Leader Award at the Matilda Awards Ceremony, and she has Bachelor's degrees in Technical Production and Drama from QUT. For more about Christine - head to her website: https://www.christinefelmingham.com
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Brady is a Brisbane-based Composer/Sound Designer and FOH Operator who has worked with companies such as Queensland Theatre, La Boite, Dead Puppet Society, Woodward Productions, Neil Gooding Productions, Sydney Opera House, Belvoir Street Theatre, Counterpilot, Queensland Museum and World Science Festival. Composition/Sound Design credits include Shirley Valentine, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged with Woodward Productions/Gooding Productions; The Appleton Ladies Potato Race, Othello, Flower in Antarctica with Queensland Theatre; Macbeth, Away, The Neighbourhood with La Boite; SWARM with Dead Puppet Society; Tiny Beautiful Things with Belvoir St; Arena Atomica: Skate-ology, Night of the Nerds with Queensland Museum and World Science Festival. Sound Design credits include Round the Twist: The Musical with Queensland Theatre and QPAC; Meet Your Maker with Blak Social and Brisbane Festival; First Casualty with Queensland Theatre; Fancy Long Legs, The Last Five Years with La Boite; Bigger & Blacker with Sydney Opera House and La Boite. FOH Operator credits include A Very Naughty Christmas – Melbourne, Sweet Charity with Woodward Productions; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf with Queensland Theatre and STCSA. Other credits include Bananaland (QPAC, Brisbane Festival), Hamilton: An American Musical (Michael Cassel Group), The Wider Earth (Dead Puppet Society). Brady holds a Bachelor of Music Technology from Queensland Conservatorium of Music.
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As Stage Manager: Brisbane Festival & QPAC: Trent Dalton's Love Stories; Melt Festival: River Pride Parade; Queensland Theatre: Flowers in Antarctica, 1000 Points from Zero, Chroma Town, A Dream Play, We Are the Mutable, Witches Can Be Burned, First Casualty; Potted Productions: Potted Potter - The Unauthorised Harry Experience; CDP: The 91-Storey Treehouse,The Smeds and The Smoos; Western Standard Productions: Dirty Fame Flash Candles Club; Candy Shop Show: Speakeasy, The Jazz Age, Sugar Sugar!, Up, Up & Away, Showstoppers; Tim McCallum Productions: The Crooners; Jubilee: Jali; Brisbane City Council: Yum Chat, Amigurumi Toyland, Rhizome; Assembly Festival: Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
As Assistant Stage Manager: Queensland Theatre: Antigone; Queensland Performing Arts Centre: Armistice, The Arrival, The Spirit of Christmas; Jack Morton Worldwide: GC2018 Commonwealth Games Opening & Closing Ceremonies.
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Thea Raveneau is a proud Gunggari, Lardil, and Kullilli woman from Toowoomba on Gaibal Country. Her experience with acting started with 2 8-week term acting workshops at the Empire Theatre in 2016, before she shied away from her path into the arts. In 2019, She decided to give acting another try and moved to Townsville on Bindal and Wulgurukaba Country to audition for the Queensland University of Technology, to which she was successful. The following year in 2020, she moved to Magan-djin on Jagera and Turrbal Country to commence her studies and graduated from the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) in 2023. She made her film debut starring in A Savage Christmas (2023) and her theatre debut understudying in Darlinghurst Theatre’s production of Overflow (2024). Thea was also selected to perform in a Proof-of-Concept for Biting Dust (2021) through the Equity Foundations Diversity Showcase and has performed at La Boite Theatre through their Assembly program (2022). Thea was commissioned to create a film for the TILDE Film Festival, to which she wrote, directed, produced and performed in her short-film Teddy (2024), and her latest adventure was touring around so-called Queensland performing Flowers in Antarctica (2024) through Queensland Theatre’s, The Scene Project.