OBSERVER: What’s Yours?
Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre will present the premiere of What’s Yours from July 26 – August 24 at Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre, St Kilda East.
A new work by Australian playwright Keziah Warner, What’s Yours is directed by Isabella Vadiveloo (Wolf Play) and marks the second play in the theatre’s 2025 season developed through its INK new writing program.
Written specifically for ensemble member and Helpmann Award-winner Christina O’Neill (Hour of the Wolf, Bloom, My Brilliant Career, Calamity Jane), What’s Yours captures the fallout from a single, impossibly complicated question.
Jo and Simon were in love for eight years before breaking up. Simon later falls for Jo’s best friend, Lia. Ten years, a broken friendship, and several failed IVF attempts later, Simon and Lia ask happily child-free Jo to donate her eggs.
What follows is a sharply observed portrait of fractured friendship, complicated love, and what we owe each other.
With warmth and wit, What’s Yours offers a fresh perspective on the growing childfree-by-choice movement, while celebrating the enduring power of women’s friendship and lives lived on their own terms.
The play features Red Stitch ensemble members Christina O’Neill and Kevin Hofbauer (The Flick, Wolf Play), joined by Noongar actor Carissa Lee (Inside Out – Yirramboi Festival; Planet Lulin – ABC).
The creative team includes set and costume design by Bianca Pardo, lighting by Rachel Lee, and sound design by Ethan Hunter and Grace Ferguson.
What’s Yours runs from July 26-August 24 at Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre, Chapel St, St Kilda East. Tickets are on sale now at redstitch.net
Cheryl Threadgold
Christina O’Neill, Kevin Hofbauer and Carissa Lee in What’s Yours.
Photo: James Reiser