The One

The closing show of the Poppy Seed Festival, Fire Curtin Co’s production of The One is an intense look into the role of violence and consent in relationships.

The One

Concluding the season for the inaugural Poppy Seed Festival is Vicky Jones’ award-winning hit The One – a viciously funny new play about Harry and Jo, a couple trapped in a violent and destructive cycle of co-dependent love and lust. Winning the Verity Bargate Award for new writing and premiering in 2014 to rave reviews, the show is 65 intense minutes of sex, violence and snack food and brutally asks ‘in the warfare of modern relationships, what are the rules of engagement?’ Beat had the chance to sit down with performer Kasia Kaczmarek (TV’s Wentworth) to have a chat about Fire Curtain Co’s new production at fortyfivedownstairs and what makes it such a fascinating show.

We Get It

Photo by Sarah Walker

Elbow Room’s We Get It, a timely and engaging finish to the 2015 MTC NEON festival, is a show that takes on the rampant sexism in the entertainment industry and rips it to bits.

You Took the Stars

Presented by Fire Curtin Co., You Took the Stars is a whimsical and bittersweet love story about the stars, a pink pegasus, ice cream and singing monkeys.