Great Australian Bites

A festival of new South Australian plays.

Across November and December, come and take a bite of some tasty new offerings from the cream of South Australian playwrights. Great Australian Bites is a festival of never-performed-before works from some of our most dynamic, innovative and talented theatre makers.

These new plays will be rehearsed over several days by similarly talented South Australian actors and directors and read script-in-hand on the Odeon Theatre stage, so expect some fast and fresh fabulosity!

For next-to-nothing ticket prices, get a slice of one or all of these treats:

TRIGGERED by Alex Vickery-Howe
An idealistic journalist is forced to confront his politics, his morals and his tribe when his savage takedown of a stand-up comedian leads to an onstage shooting. A bold, brave and black comedy about the cancel culture age.

SPARE A THOUGHT FOR JANA WENDT by Nicola Watson
Three old friends reunite for a weekend away at an Airbnb, only to discover that they are not the only people occupying the house. A biting black comedy that will test the oscillations of your moral compass.

CULTURE SLAP by Alexis West
A theatricalized adventure following a Black woman stomping, tripping, and fumbling her way through the often treacherous, healing process of protocol. You get it wrong culturally – you’re gonna get a Culture Slap!

LOST SOCKS AND POLKA DOTS by Sarah Peters
Based on interviews with people living and working in residential aged care and their families, a one-person verbatim play about ageing, care, and the memories we keep of the people we love.

THE SPOIL by Piri Eddy
When a nascent pathogen wreaks ecological havoc on the planet’s arable soil, the world’s food security is plunged into chaos. Working alone on her family’s old farm, a gifted biologist, sifts through thousands of seeds – and the memories of her family – in search of something that might grow.

LOG BOY by Anthony Nocera
Based on a lived experience of grief, Log Boy sees two generations of gay men come face to face with the ghosts of their past before they lay their friend to rest. A cut-throat horror comedy about contemporary gay life that’s a little bit Scream, a little bit The Boys in the Band and a little bit Cruising.

CONTENT

Frequent coarse language and adult themes.

Tickets are currently available as an add-on to a 2025 Subscription package