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Fat Pig: The Opera
SHOW DETAILS:
5 – 8 June 2025
preview: Thursday 5 June – Please note that this preview performance has been cancelled. All other performances will go ahead as scheduled.
opening night: Friday 6 June
duration: 90 minutes
times:
Thursday to Saturday 7:30pm
Sunday 5pm
ticket price: $35 – $70 + booking fee
bookings: 03 9662 9966
warnings: strong language, partial nudity and loud noise
How many insults can you hear before you have to stand up and defend the woman you love?
Tom faces just that question when he falls for Helen, a bright, funny, sexy young woman who happens to be plus-sized—and then some. As Tom faces the taunts and judgment of his peers, Fat Pig questions whether anyone can really see past the surface.
Adapted from Neil LaBute’s award-winning 2004 play, by Australian librettist Miriam Gordon-Stewart and American composer, Matt Boehler, this black comedy examines the nature of beauty and attraction, revealing the operatic reserves of human truth that lie beneath the surface of a workplace rom-com.
Image by Cameron Grant
CAST
Tom: Michael Honeyman
Helen: Amanda Windred
Carter: Daniel Szesiong Todd
Jeannie: Belinda Dalton
FOREST COLLECTIVE
Karen Chen, clarinet, bass clarinet
Ryan Lynch, clarinet, bass clarinet
Alexander Meagher, percussion
Zac Johnston, violin
Alex Macdonald, viola
Rosanne Hunt, cello
CREATIVES
Music Director: Evan J Lawson
Director: Kate Millett
Set Designer: Max Bowyer
Lighting Designer: Gabriel Bethune
Costume Designer: Oliver Hall
Intimacy Coordinator: Cohan
Stage Manager: Ella Campbell
Ticket Prices:
Preview Full: $50
Preview Concession: $40
Full: $70
Concession: $50
Group 6+: $50
First Nations and under 30s: $35
Concessions:
Pensioners/Full-time students/MEAA members
Ticket sales are subject to a booking fee of $3.00 per ticket plus any merchant charges for payments by American Express
Ticket fees are charged reluctantly. As an unfunded CBD located venue, our expenses continue to rise. If fortyfivedownstairs is to survive, we are obliged to increase our revenue without inflicting costs on already struggling artists. Without support, we risk losing artists or having to close our doors. We do hope for your understanding!