{"id":7654,"date":"2025-05-09T10:58:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T00:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/?p=7654"},"modified":"2025-05-09T10:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T00:58:14","slug":"observer-femme-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/2025\/05\/09\/observer-femme-play\/","title":{"rendered":"OBSERVER: Femme Play"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attitude Production and Cracked Actors Theatre present Femme Play [ungrateful slut], at The Butterfly Club from May 21-31 as part of the Drama Queen Festival 2025.<br>Written by feminist playwright Judy Doubas and directed by Susan Rundle, the play is described as a &#8216;sharp, provocative production which blends humour and biting social commentary with an urgent call for change\u2019.<br>Al and George are two women wrestling with modern pressures &#8211; careers, relationships, identity &#8211; only to realise their struggles are systemic.<br>As they awaken to the forces shaping their lives, their inner voices Red, a patriarchal mouth-piece, and Bling, embodying society\u2019s Madonna\/Whore paradox, push and pull them in opposing directions, leading them toward political action.<br>Doubas\u2019s work evolved from personal observation into a wider, urgent conversation about feminism\u2019s ongoing battles..<br>Director Rundle says the play is \u201cIn-your-face, hilarious, and unapologetic. It doesn\u2019t preach, but it sure makes you think.\u201d<br>With misogyny still a global issue, Femme Play arrives as a timely, unflinching response.<br>Unapologetically urgent, Femme Play [ungrateful slut] aims to demand attention.<br>Performance Season: May 21-24 at 7pm; May 26, 28 and 29 at 8.30pm, May 27, 30 and 31 at 5.30pm<br>Venue: The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place (off Lt Collins St), Melbourne (CBD)<br>Tickets: $45 Full | $40 Concession. $38 Member<br>Bookings: thebutterflyclub.com\/show\/femme-play-ungrateful-slut or 9663 810<br><strong>Cheryl Threadgold<\/strong><br><br><strong>Pictured: Ruth Katerelos, June Collins, Rosie Rodiadis and Gabby Llewelyn in Femme Play (ungrateful slut).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attitude Production and Cracked Actors Theatre present Femme Play [ungrateful slut], at The Butterfly Club from May 21-31 as part of the Drama Queen Festival 2025.Written by feminist playwright Judy Doubas and directed by Susan Rundle, the play is described as a &#8216;sharp, provocative production which blends humour and biting social commentary with an urgent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"none","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-observer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7662,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions\/7662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}