BLAQUE SHOWGIRLS by Nakkiah Lui
The Griffin Theatre Production, Presented by Australian Theatre Live
A Screening at The Dolby Screening Room

Plumage! Puns! Political incorrectness gone mad! Griffin Theatre Company is proud to present: Blaque Showgirls!

A lonely kid in rural Australia, fair-skinned Sarah Jane Jones is deathly sure of two things: 1. She’s the best dancer in the whole town of Chithole, and 2. She’s a proud Aboriginal woman. There’s very little proof of either of these things.

So, when a long-lost photograph offers hope of her Indigenous ancestry, Sarah Jane high-tails it to the glitziest casino in Brisvegas. Her mission? To land a role in the First Nations burlesque spectacular: ‘Blaque Showgirls’… by any means necessary.

Blaque Showgirls is Nakkiah Lui’s sparkly, smart-arsed spoof of the so-bad-it’s-good cinematic masterpiece Showgirls. The luminous Stephanie Somerville (Chalkface) fan kicks her way to the front of the chorus line alongside an all-star, all-First Nations cast of incredible performers!

Co-Directors Shari Sebbens (Superheroes, City of Gold) and Ursula Yovich (Diving for Pearls, Barbara and the Camp Dogs) jam-pack a long-awaited, pint-sized rhinestoned arena spectacular into the SBW Stables Theatre in 2023.

★★★★½ ‘[Nakkiah Lui] pivots improbably smoothly from outrageous hilarity to heartrending pain and injustice in a kind of one-two move that hits you in the gut.’—Limelight Magazine (for Nakkiah Lui and Blackie Blackie Brown)

Co-Director Shari Sebbens
Co-Director Ursula Yovich
Set & Costume Designer Cris Baldwin
Lighting Designer Verity Hampson
Sound Designer & Composer Jessica Dunn
Choreographer Sani Townson
Intimacy Coordinator Chloë Dallimore
Voice & Accent Coach Nick Curnow
Community Engagement Lead Neville Williams Boney
Stage Manager Isabella Kerdijk
Lighting Secondment Madeleine Picard
Costume Assistant Hamish Elliot
With Mathew Cooper, Jonathan Jeffrey, Ian Michael (cover), Matty Mills, Angeline Penrith, Stephanie Somerville

Digeridoo, Boomerang and Clapstick Tracks created and performed by Matthew Doyle