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Considerable Sexual Licence by Joel Brae

Four people wearing retro 80s outfits including knee high jockey socks are lined up next to one another. They al pose in different upright positions in front of an orange wall with red, yellow and white horizontal stripes across the wall.

Come in, find a spot, slip into something more comfortable. Let all those inhibitions go baby, we’re gonna get…pre-colonial.

Join, proud Wiradjuri man Joel Bray and a talented team of collaborators including Carly Sheppard, Dan Ewell and Niharika Senepati for a flirty, occasionally filthy and deeply passionate look at the true history of sensuality ‘down under’.

Through painstaking research and personal reflection, the team delve deep into the deliberately misrepresented practices of ceremony to reimagine the songs, dances, partying and perhaps something a little sexier.

Rejecting the white, Christian, ‘straight’-jacket of sexual politics in Australia, this provocative performance blends cabaret, comedy, and choreography to tempt you to take part in this queering and radical reexamination of our close personal histories.

Considerable Sexual License is a playful invitation to explore your own history and relationship to sex, sexuality and personal freedom, and a celebration of Country, community, consent and kinship.

Creative Team

Direction & Choreography: Joel Bray
Performers: Carly Sheppard, Niharika Senapati, Daniel Ewell and Joel Bray
Composition & Sound Designer: Daniel Nixon
Collaborating Director and Dramaturg: Stephen Nicolazzo
Lighting Designer: Katie Sfetkidis
Lighting Associate: Rachel Lee
Designer: Nathan Burmeister
Technical Production & Stage Management: Lucie Sutherland
Executive Producer: Alison Halit
Program Producer: Lucie Sutherland