"I'm sorry. It's just I thought this was just... cake."

About

Ant & Annie are a couple. So are Bill & Bella. Both are frighteningly close to middle age.

As each couple sits down to some cake, nothing is said but everything is meant. For this is love done the contemporary way: conversations punctuated with text messaging, pleasures punctuated by food intolerances and happiness punctuated with rage. Cake’s not the only thing you could slice a knife through…

A deliciously funny exploration of love and sex in the modern world by one of the country’s most daring and witty playwrights.

Presented by Michael Sieders and Griffin Independent

Cast & Creatives

Director Shannon Murphy
Designer 
Justin Nardella
Lighting Designer 
Teegan Lee 
Sound Designer 
Steve Toulmin
With Georgina Symes, Glenn Hazeldine, Olivia Pigeot, Josef Ber

Performance Times

PERFORMANCE DATES
Previews 
20 & 21 June
Season 23 June – 14 July

PERFORMANCE TIMES
Monday-Saturday 7pm
Saturday 14 July 2pm and 7pm

Run time 1hour 25mins

 

Reviews

‘Director Shannon Murphy…swings the pendulum from playful to poignant very entertainingly.’  SMH 

‘Under director Shannon Murphy’s stewardship, Vanessa Bates’ play Porn.Cake is a lively, at times funny and largely attention-grabbing piece of work.’  Daily Telegraph

‘Porn.Cake is out of the ordinary…’ Stage Noise

‘The conception of this play, and the exploration of the material in this exaggerated comic milieu is an adventurous surprise success in the Australian play-wrighting canon that we usually see.’ Kevin Jackson

‘This production will make you laugh…’ What’s On Sydney

Blog Posts

BIG CAKE FLANS

12.06.12

Brenda Hartley from Porn.Cake reveals her cake logistics… Every show comes with it’s own interesting staging requirements; that prop that needs to be thrown and then land in a specific spot every night or that wall that has to be...

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SHANNON MURPHY TAKES TO BERLIN

05.04.12

Porn.Cake director Shannon Murphy has been taking Berlin by storm with performance group SandS through the hourglass’s production of the The One-Eyed Man is King for the Schaubühne Festival of International New Drama in Berlin. This week, Shannon gives us...

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GLENN HAZELDINE ON BEING ANT

10.07.12

Glenn Hazeldine is currently playing disillusioned Gen-X’er Ant in Porn.Cake to great reviews. Next up he plays Ant, again, in Glace Chase‘s wickedly irreverent A Hoax which previews at the Stables from 20 July. We spoke to Glenn about stepping...

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