Comedy

Ned Kelly: the Big Gay Musical

The outlawed Kelly Gang are fighting to establish the Queerdom of Slaytoria!

Dates 11 - 22 Oct
Time 9:30pm, 8:30pm, 11:00pm (65 minutes)
Venues Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Quilt Room, Festival Hub: Trades Hall - ETU Ballroom

$28.00 - $32.00

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Pink back drop with five drag kings posed in front. Each individual has a monochromatic colour scheme with glittery beards. The person in front is holding a Ned Kelly helmet and has a shocked expression.

Past Event

Comedy

Image Credit: Liv Morison

Written and Directed by: Kaine!
Produced by: Sunny Youngsmith

The outlawed Kelly Gang are fighting to establish the Queerdom of Slaytoria but Victoria Police are hot on the gang's tail. Join The Kelly Gang as they fight for what’s right and destroy their colonialist overlords.

Things get King-ky in this return season after a near sold out run of “unbridled fun” at Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2023. Written and directed by Kaine, “a comedian on the rise”, this queer re-telling of Australia’s most infamous bushrangers is an all original, flaps-to-the-wall Drag King extravaganza. Ned Kelly and his gang of hawt men are ready to take down British Colonialism all whilst being the butchest as butch can be.

The ensemble cast of five “set the stage on fire” (Ellen Marning, Erin McIntosh, Monique Kerr, Sian Dowler, and Sunny Youngsmith) sliding on their trouser packers for the first time. They will no doubt leave you drooling over their “entertaining and alluring” queer masc-ness. The show’s live four-piece band, ‘The Glen Rowans’, will accompany their explorations of gender and sexuality in a heteronormative and colonialist society with songs such as ‘We Put The Bush In Ranger’, ‘Terrorist or Fabulous’, and ‘The Little Gay Man at the End of the Rainbow’.

This “piece of queer joy is an important and unmissable” show in this year’s Fringe Festival!

No Aussie legend is safe, not even the bearded ones!

Duration: 65 minutes
Age suitability: M
Event warnings: Contains Sustained Bright Lights, Haze Effects, Some Nudity, Frequent Coarse Language, Both Sudden And Sustained Loud Noises, Some Infrequent/Low Pressure Audience Interaction.
Content warnings: Staged Violence, Drug References, Alcohol Use, Misogyny, Sexual References, Death, Murder.

Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Quilt Room
Cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts, Carlton, VIC, 3053

Wheelchair Access

Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Quilt Room is wheelchair accessible.

The entrance to the venue is on Lygon St. You can head up the front stairs and through the main doors, from there head right to get to the Loading Dock.
If you need step free access, there is lift at the front of the building and our team will be able to guide you from there to the Loading Dock.

Once you're in the Loading Dock you can head straight through to the Victoria Street Building and up the stairs. On the first floor of this building, the Quilt Room is to the right, on the eastern edge of this hallway.

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Festival Hub: Trades Hall - ETU Ballroom
Cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts, Carlton, VIC, 3053

Wheelchair Access

Festival Hub: Trades Hall - ETU Ballroom is wheelchair accessible.

The entrance to the venue is on Lygon St. You can head up the front stairs and through the main doors, from there head right to get to the Loading Dock.
If you need step free access, there is lift at the front of the building and our team will be able to guide you from there to the Loading Dock.

Once you're in the Loading Dock you can head west and through the corridor to the stairs, and up to the ETU Ballroom. There is also a lift if you are unable to take the stairs.

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Full: $32.00
Preview: $28.00
Extra Applause: $45.00
Blak Tix: $25.00
Concession: $26.00
Group 6+: $25.00
Hump Day Discount: $24.00

Member discounts available

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"This piece of queer joy is an important and unmissable to this year’s... program" - Theatre Travels

theatretravels.org

"Too funny for words" - LILITHIA REVIEWS

lilithia.net

"This show is a fast paced, action packed, all singing, all dancing, gender bending re-imagining of the story of the Kelly gang, and it’s a hoot." - R L Smith Writing

rlsmithwriting.com

Sessions: In Person Events

A single $5.50 transaction fee applies to your booking.

Date	Time	Venue
Wednesday, 11 October 2023 Preview	9:30pm	Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Quilt Room Preview	Past Event
Thursday, 12 October 2023	9:30pm	Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Quilt Room	Past Event
Friday, 13 October 2023	9:30pm	Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Quilt Room	Past Event
Saturday, 14 October 2023	9:30pm	Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Quilt Room	Past Event
Sunday, 15 October 2023 Selling Fast	8:30pm	Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Quilt Room Selling Fast	Past Event
Wednesday, 18 October 2023 Cancelled	9:30pm	Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Quilt Room Cancelled	Cancelled
Thursday, 19 October 2023 Cancelled	9:30pm	Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Quilt Room Cancelled	Cancelled
Friday, 20 October 2023 Cancelled	9:30pm	Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Quilt Room Cancelled	Cancelled
Friday, 20 October 2023	11:00pm	Festival Hub: Trades Hall - ETU Ballroom	Past Event
Saturday, 21 October 2023 Cancelled	9:30pm	Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Quilt Room Cancelled	Cancelled
Sunday, 22 October 2023 Cancelled	8:30pm	Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Quilt Room Cancelled	Cancelled