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Hot Tub
Ad Astra Production
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“Life’s a beach and then you die.”
Winner of the Patrick White Playwrights Award, Hot Tub is a tragicomic fever dream set on the Gold Coast during Schoolies Week. Dido, a sad girl from North Queensland, arrives at ‘The Great White’—her estranged family’s crumbling beachside tower—seeking cash for weight-loss surgery in Brazil. When her father refuses, Dido teams up with her scheming twink stepbrother to raise the money online.
Meanwhile, the family's ageing matriarch Eunice discovers she’s a suspect in a criminal investigation, but refuses to sell the building to keep everyone out of jail.
A satirical takedown of Australia’s tasteless upper crust, Hot Tub is packed with explosive secrets, cosmic justice, karaoke, and characters who will stop at nothing to protect their spot on the beach.
Hot Tub premiered at the Belvoir Street Theatre in 2024.
Time Out wrote:
Shamelessly crass and Aussie to the core … Pantomime-like-levels of camp and perverse parallels to the humour of Kath & Kim aside, Treston is able to pack in clever and unexpected deep cuts when it comes to commentary about the superficiality and greed that underlies modern life in Australia, as well as broader ruminations on the meaning of life.
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Director Notes go here,
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Content Warnings TBA
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Dido Hunter | Grace Lofting
Murray Hunter | Sandro Colarelli
Eunice White | Sarah Speller
Jade Hunter-White | Natasha McDonald
Reese White | Lachlan Brayshaw
Officer Sheryl | Ruby Gudenswager
Macka/Stinger | Daniel Johnson
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Director | Daniel Lammin
Assistant Director | Ebony Webb
Assistant Director & Sound Designer | Eloise Collins
Stage Manager | Zalee Jensen
Lighting Designer |
Costume Designer | Lottie Banford
Set Designer | Ashleigh Winter
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Reviews
“There is something in the very bones of our way of life on this land, that insists that we make safe and bland decisions. Even in art, we are often held back from jumping off cliffs, as though the repercussions will forever be dire, even though nobody can know for certain what awaits thereafter. In Hot Tub, we can see that a leap of faith has been taken, a kind of wild abandon is in action, perhaps informed by the unequivocal queerness that serves as central guiding principle, establishing the language and paradigm from which it communicates.”
Suzy Go See - Sydney Theatre Reviews | Read Review Here
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