MADDIE IS THE NEW KAREN

What’s the difference between a Maddie and a Karen? 20 years and a mortgage.

After running into Karen at a boutique patisserie, two Maddies realise they are six degrees of separation away from becoming the women they love to hate... Will self-awareness be enough to stop them from growing into the next stereotype? Or will their loud mouths and annoying quirks turn them into the punching bag of their generation? 

This status-quo challenging production is not an attack on Karens, but on Keyboard Warriors. Maddie is the New Karen is raw, comedic and utterly contemporary - asking the important questions like: Do you mind if I could maybe please speak to the Manager?

This bold new multi-media production by Madeleine Border and Madeline Römcke tackles a world with large generational borders and will provoke some punchy conversations. 

THEMES: Class, Generational Divides & Privilege 

LENGTH: 60 Minutes

CHARACTER AGES: 18-60

NO. OF CHARACTERS: 9 (Large Cast)

SUITABLE FOR: Senior Years & Adults

Maddie is the New Karen premiered at the Wynnum Fringe Festival in the Waterloo Bay Leisure Centre, November 2021.

“The pace of the show is dynamic. The exercise bike, the treadmill all relevant props in the wake of a life in the day of a typical white woman in her 20’s, privileged and living in the inner-city landscape. The muffin is eaten and referred to as part of what it means to bake consciously. I was hoping they might sit on it, but that’s another show. I laughed and was entertained by the idea that white people see themselves much the same way as POC sometimes see them. Basically, as a bit of a joke.” – Ofa Fanaika, Nothing Ever Happens In Brisbane