after the end by dennis kelly.

“Louise wakes up to find herself in an underground nuclear fallout shelter belonging to her colleague Mark, who has rescued her from the devastation caused by a suitcase bomb. Luckily, Mark has stocked food, Dungeons and Dragons and a knife. Now they just have to wait.”

Season Date
19th - 21st April 2024.

Venue: Backdock ARTS, Fortitude Valley.

With this unpredictable, provocative and gruelling play, SDC’s debut project was a theatrical discourse about individual sovereignty that unfolds in a heartbreakingly touching story.

With the play focusing on both the seemingly domestic and the desperate extremes of human behaviour, the audience was pulled into this world fuelled by obsession, desire, identity and the lethal combination they form to pin two people down in a battle for survival.

Stuck in a tiny nuclear bunker, with no one but each other, the true colours of Mark and Louise begin to show, his long obsession with her slowly becomes apparent and the situation they find themselves in seems to become a premeditated recipe for him to play out his fantasy of total control.

With the characters pushing each other to the brink of complete collapse and self-destruction, this genius piece of writing from Dennis Kelly was an ideal first play for the collective as it showed our capability to capture the complexities of human beings and what may truly lie beneath the surface. This project was, in essence, a precise picture of SDC as provoking, performance driven theatre makers.

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ATE Creative Team

Jasmine Prasser

SDC Co-Founder / Louise / Producer
Leo Buzac

SDC Co-Founder / Mark
ava rusch

Director
Michaela faux

Production Manager
Samuel Carrick

Sound Designer
Claire yorston

Lighting Designer

scenes with girls by miriam battye.

“You're only the greatest person ever invented and he's some boy who's probs never had a conversation with a side of the sun before - but like Let's Be Modest About It
Tosh and Lou. 22 scenes.Other friends have come, got boyfriends and gone. So what? Tosh and Lou have each other. They'll never be like the other girls. They won't sit in a narrative someone else thought up. This is love. This is enough.

This is enough.”

Season Date

31st July - 3rd August 2024.

Venue: PIP Theatre, Milton.

In collaboration with PIP Theatre, SDC’S SCENES WITH GIRLS By Miriam Battye was the QLD Premiere. A complex dive into modern love, feminism, identity and female friendship, this piece of theatre was nothing short of a privilege to bring to life.

We quickly realised that the biggest driving factor of this script was this complex idea of what it means to be a woman in the 21st century and how our attitudes towards sex has shifted our behavioral patterns and relationships both with others and with our-selves. Drawing on historical religious references and contemporary situations, we successfully created a world in which audiences were enveloped. This piece was filled with infectious energy, harrowing desperation and an authenticity that audiences deeply resonated with.

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