SOMETIMES IT'S HOT LIKE THE SUN

Debra and Diana make confessions over a two way radio, a mother raises a boy to be exactly like the boys she always hated, a women tries on the skin of her boss and a child is reprimanded for childish behaviour. Sometimes It’s Hot Like The Sun is a collection of stories found deep in the undergrowth of our undermpit hair, exploring our connection and disconnection to gender and womanhood. It  will teach your children the value of money, how to make long distance phone calls and what to do when the world ends. 

Sometimes It’s Hot Like The Sun explores womanhood; veiled in a familiarity which curls at the edges. An experience which is shrouded in confusion and violence. Each snippet of story explores how we understand gender, our own identity, and life, in a world on the brink of collapse. How, in a world as connected as ours, do we understand ourselves and our own struggles? Is agency a possibility in a world of seven and a half billion and counting?

THEMES: Gender, Identity, Wealth & Climate Anxiety

LENGTH: 45 Minutes

CHARACTER AGES: 20s–50s

CAST SIZE: Large Cast

SUITABLE FOR: Senior Years & Adults

Sometimes it’s Hot Like the Sun was first produced as part of Festival of Australian Student Theatre (FAST), 2018 premiering at La Boite, Roundhouse Theatre on November 23, 2018. 

Sometimes it’s Hot Like the Sun was produced by Imperfect Creatives at Elements Collective, Fortitude Valley, from the 12-17 November, 2021.

“It’s aggressive, and honestly, I don’t even know what wave of feminism we’ve reached but there is a nihilist bent to me that wants to just call it as you see it, as this play in fact does. “I like the taste of stupid on my men.” Says Gerald, a creature that lives in a manhole and eats foolish boys that don’t take a woman at her word. ” – Nadia Jade, Nothing Ever Happens In Brisbane 

“It’s the apocalypse, but not as you know it, in this psychedelic, digressive, and unpredictable new Australian play.” – Oliver Gough, Theatre Haus