Description

'Everyone knows that friendships made in bathrooms are ones that last for life.'

Cactus is a brutally funny, heartbreakingly honest new play for anyone who is or ever has been a teenager.

This timely play by Madelaine Nunn follows Abbie and her best friend PB as they navigate their last year of high school. It's going well. I mean, they're still virgins, but it's going well. Milestones are being met. Exams are drawing near. Freedom is on the horizon. Then Abbie gets some news that suddenly and unceremoniously plunges her into a world she wasn't ready for.

Winner of the ATYP Rebel Wilson Theatre Maker Scholarship

Shortlisted for the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award

Nominated for an Australian Writer's Guild Award

'A vivid and touching and effortlessly funny portrayal that puts the intimate textures of female companionship centre stage' —The Age

'Cactus is a brilliantly written work ... Nunn is a consummate storyteller' — Australian Arts Review

Biography

Madelaine Nunn

MADELAINE NUNN is an AWGIE winning writer, actor and producer working across theatre, film and radio since graduating from the VCA in 2015. Madelaine is the founder of Mad Nun Productions, co-founder of Three Birds Theatre, and Artistic Director of Rollercoaster Theatre. She has won The House of Oz Purse Prize, The Martin Lysicrates Prize, The Rebel Wilson Scholarship, The ATYP Foundation Commission and The Jopuka Eldersee Commission. She has been shortlisted for the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award three times; she is a three-time AWGIE nominee and has been longlisted for the Griffin Award and the Lysicrates Prize. Notable writing credits include; sitting, screaming (The Old Fitz), FLICK (La Mama/Goodwood Theatre & studios), SAAM (ATYP), Cactus (La Mama/RAV), The Chapel, the Fire & the Dead Cat (ATYP), Summer at Suspended Stone Camp (Jopuka Productions), Kinder Surprise (ABC RN) and Bin Chicken (ATYP/Griffin). With Three Birds Theatre Madelaine is the co-writer and performer of Garage Girls, Will This Show Take Off?, Enter Ophelia, LadyCake and Three Birds One Cock. You can keep up to date with Madelaine’s work and her production company on Instagram @madonunnie and @madnunproductions.