From the stellar team behind acclaimed productions of RUNT, SHIT, and Caravan – writer Patricia Cornelius, director Susie Dee, and performer Nicci Wilks – comes BAD BOY, a searing new work that boldly tackles themes of misogyny and domestic violence.

It’s time to take on this most difficult of subjects using the power of the metaphorical, language that is both grungy and poetic, and the visceral, often surprisingly comedic physical strengths of performer Nicci Wilks.

Written by Cornelius and directed by Dee, Wilks will inhabit the character of BAD BOY, a female actor openly playing a male role, with the gender inversion heightening this sharp examination into male behaviour.

BAD BOY is presented in association with Melbourne Fringe as part of the Festival’s Pulse Program.

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Reviews for RUNT

★★★★★ ‘Runt is everything remarkable about independent theatre in Melbourne.’ Anne Marie Peard, Time Out Melbourne

★★★★½ ‘It’s a superb performance, full of jutting jaws and wide-eyed anguish, alternating wildly between desperate hunger and coiled defiance’ Tim Byrne, Australian Book Review

★★★★ ‘…between Susie Dee’s direction, Cornelius’ writing and Wilks’ uncompromising performance, Runt confronts you with transfixing dramatic art…’ Cameron Woodhead, The Age