Naarm’s messiest club bathroom is back this January after a sold-out season at the Fringe Festival.
A play entirely in the grotty, grimy all-gender bathroom of the club that no one plans to be at but everyone ends up at, Doghouse is coming back for a second season. The return will run from January 17 to 21 at The Motley Bauhaus in Carlton.
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- Doghouse is returning after a sold-out Fringe Festival season
- A queer character drama set entirely in the bathroom of a nightclub, it explores the messy webs we weave as young Melburnians
- It’s on from January 17 until January 21 at the Motley Bauhaus in Carlton
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Here’s what our reviewer, Amelia Szabo, had to say about the show’s original run when it premiered at 2022’s Melbourne Fringe Festival: “the bathroom in a club is not just simply a toilet – this Melbourne Fringe production shows it’s therapy, a dressing room – simultaneously the place you go to engage in nefarious activities out of the eye of security, along with the escape from the chaos that ensues elsewhere.
“Melbourne Fringe Festival’s Doghouse hits the nail on the head in displaying the intersection of all of these settings as the backdrop to highlight the intricacies of modern relationships.
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“The authenticity cannot be faulted. From the tags, stickers and Sharpie-d remarks plastered all over the walls, to the lack of toilet paper and, of course, the presence of bum bags.
“Housemates, co-workers, current partners, ex-partners and old school friends. Not unlike real life, each character had their own perspective and truth of their relationship with others, which was constantly challenged by overheard conversations or substance-induced cloudiness.”
Plus, if you buy tickets you go in the running to win a case of Bodriggy lager. Queer, messy mayhem and beer? What more could you possibly want?
Sam Smith is going. The question is: are you?
Get messy at Doghouse at the Motley Bauhaus from January 17 to 21. Tickets are selling fast, grab them by heading here.
