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PORN.CAKE

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Two couples. One moment, one dinner party, one cake - things you felt or thought or said in that moment, and how they resonated back over and over in a multitude of variations and for years or perhaps in just one night of dreaming.

When exactly was the happiest moment of your life and were you even awake when you had it?

Is it even a memory or just a creeping realisation?

"Funny, disturbing and utterly in tune with the zeitgeist, Porn.Cake is a bold step forward in contemporary theatre." - Cameron Woodhead, Behind the Critical Curtain

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Tom Healey in Conversation with Vanessa Bates about Porn.Cake:

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  • black comedy
  • 90
  • 4 total
  • 2 female identifying, 2 male identifying
  • women, gender
  • 18+
  • adult, young adult
  • Australian Script Centre


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Bella

Female | 30s | over 10 minutes
Starts on page 3

EXTRACT: And so she says:/ don't cry, don't cry/ of course you can have my hee-cups, I'll just run and get them./And Sheila ducks off to her playroom/ gathers up her toy tea sets,/ all the little cups and saucers she can find,/and she brings them back to the garden/lays them all down at the feet of the tiny little fairy man who drops/ to his tiny little fairy knees and sobs with gratitude:/I'll have them back by five today.

Adult themes, Adult language

Bill

Male | 40s | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 47

EXTRACT: She has long weekends away but her job's pretty shitty in my opinion and she lives in a fairly mediocre town about three hours from here. I was tossing up about whether to stalk her but frankly, with facebook, there's no need. Of course the spark's probably gone, her and her husband, you can have all the long weekends in the world together, in the end you won't be happy and fulfilled. You might say you are. Good sex and all that. But you won't be.

Adult themes

Ant

Male | 40s | 5 to 10 minutes
Starts on page 53

EXTRACT: We were kissing and it was, she was, quite rough. At first it was ok, it was, I was./ It was sexy./And then, it crossed the line, past sexy towards excruciating, and I tried to pull back a bit and she, she, sort of, sort of,sucked really hard and wrenched her head sideways and that's when I felt something in my mouth go pop./ Pop./ It really did make that sound.

Adult themes

Annie

Female | 40s | over 10 minutes
Starts on page 29

EXTRACT: probably doesn't take a genius to read my lips and work out what I'm saying: F U C K I N G C U N T. And finally, finally, there's a chance to overtake him and I just screech around him and give him the laser death stare and I get to the clinic with three scabby minutes to spare and I rush to unlock and check the answer machine and water the lucky bamboo and refill the oil burner and throw a clean towel over the massage table and the doorbell goes.

Adult themes, Adult language

REVIEW: NO TASTE FOR SWEET NOTHINGS

THE AUSTRALIAN, 25 APRIL 2011

Review of the Malthouse Theatre production of ///Porn. Cake/// by Vanessa Bates, written by Chris Boyd.

REVIEW: PORN. CAKE

THEATRE PEOPLE, 4 MAY 2011

Review of the Malthouse Theatre production of ///Porn. Cake/// by Vanessa Bates, written by Natasha Boyd.

REVIEW: PORN. CAKE

AUSTRALIAN STAGE, 21 APRIL 2011

Review of the Malthouse Theatre production of ///Porn. Cake/// by Vanessa Bates, written by Liza Dezfouli.

REVIEW: PORN. CAKE

HERALD SUN, 25 APRIL 2011

Review of the Malthouse Theatre production of ///Porn. Cake/// by Vanessa Bates, written by Kate Herbert.

REVIEW: PORN. CAKE

THE AGE, APRIL 2011

Review of the Malthouse Theatre production of ///Porn. Cake/// by Vanessa Bates, written by Cameron Woodhead for the Age and then posted on his blog Behind the Critical Curtain.

REVIEW: PORN. CAKE

THEATRE NOTES, 29 APRIL 2011

Review of the Malthouse Theatre production of ///Porn. Cake/// by Vanessa Bates, written by Alison Croggon for her blog, Theatre Notes.

ARTICLE: PORN. CAKE

THE AGE, 20 APRIL 2011

Robin Usher talks about the upcoming Malthouse Theatre production of ///Porn. Cake/// by Vanessa Bates, directed by Pamela Rabe.

REVIEW: PORN. CAKE

STAGE NOISE, 27 JUNE, 2012

“Out of the ordinary, entertaining and beautifully iced.” Review of the Griffin Independent/Michael Sieders production of ///Porn. Cake/// by Vanessa Bates, written by Diana Simmonds.

REVIEW: PORN. CAKE

KEVIN JACKSON'S THEATRE DIARY, 25 JUNE, 2012

Review of the Griffin Independent/Michael Sieders production of ///Porn. Cake/// by Vanessa Bates, written by Kevin Jackon.

REVIEW: PORN. CAKE

DAILY TELEGRAPH, 25 JUNE, 2012

Review of the Griffin Independent/Michael Sieders production of ///Porn. Cake/// by Vanessa Bates, written by Chris Hook.

REVIEW: SLICE OF MODERN LIFE THROWS A CAST OF COUPLES INTO T

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 27 JUNE, 2012

Review of the Griffin Independent/Michael Sieders production of ///Porn. Cake/// by Vanessa Bates, written by Jason Blake.

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