Theatre

  • Fringe Festival

ADMINISTRATION

An undiagnosed autistic kid's perspective on life, death, religion and dance

Person with blue eyes and brown curly hair in two buns with pink ribbons wearing a pink organza dress. They have colourful pom poms stuck to their face with a concerning expression in their eyes. Their hand covers their mouth with a red smile drawn on it, as they are framed in pink background that blends with their dress colour.
Person wearing a blue leotard, and a halo made from origami paper cranes, in a pose mimicking a statue of Mary holding an origami chatterbox with the words lesbian and autistic written on there.
Person in a blue leotard, holds sky blue coloured rosary beads and an origami chatterbox that says in a big font - lesbian in purple, autistic in green, slut in pink and princess in blue.
Past Event

Image Credit: Darcy Scales

Person with blue eyes and brown curly hair in two buns with pink ribbons wearing a pink organza dress. They have colourful pom poms stuck to their face with a concerning expression in their eyes. Their hand covers their mouth with a red smile drawn on it, as they are framed in pink background that blends with their dress colour.
Person wearing a blue leotard, and a halo made from origami paper cranes, in a pose mimicking a statue of Mary holding an origami chatterbox with the words lesbian and autistic written on there.
Person in a blue leotard, holds sky blue coloured rosary beads and an origami chatterbox that says in a big font - lesbian in purple, autistic in green, slut in pink and princess in blue.

  • Created and Performed by: Adeline Close

  • Supported by: Australian Cultural Fund

Administration is a one-person darkly comedic play about growing up autistic (and not knowing it).

Stumbling into a therapist’s office with a stack of paperwork, (and stories to match) Addy recounts what it was like to grow up in a small town catholic school.
Through vignettes from Addy’s life between the ages of 4-14, we come to realise the impact your environment can have on coming to accept who you are. We experience how someone may learn to abandon their childhood curiosity and natural expression in favour of an exterior mask: the polar opposite of the internal world.

Administration welcomes you into a space where we can come together and laugh at some shared experiences.

If there was an Australian Gilmore Girls prequel, this would be it.

"I think this will be very relatable" - Playwright’s therapist