20 JANUARY — 19 FEBRUARY
Chewing Gum Dreams
By Michaela Coel
Directed by Bernadette Fam
Tracey is 14 and she knows where she stands.
Indian bus drivers are the best. Candice is the buffest girl she’s ever seen. Fat Lesha can lick her own vagina. And Connor Jones? He's eyeballing her pop socks… hard.
Michaela Coel's Chewing Gum Dreams is a hilarious, irreverent ride through Tracey’s last precious days of childhood.
From the award-winning playwright and creator of Chewing Gum and I May Destroy You comes this fire cracking work that will delight you, before it smacks you harder than the 67 bus.
Creative team
Presented by Green Door Theatre Company & Red Line Productions
Playwright: Michaela Coel
Director: Bernadette Fam
Performer: Masego Pitso
Creative Associates: Henrietta Amevor and Annitha Kontyo
Producers: Leila Enright, Janine Lau and Jasper Lee-Lindsay
Community Engagement Specialists: 2 Sydney Stylists
Voice Coaching & Dramaturgy: Angela Sullen
Co-Set Designers: Tess A. Burg and Keerthi Subramanyam
Set Design Assistant: Amanda Torrisi
Set Construction Assistant: Matthew Hinton
Costume Designers: 2 Sydney Stylists
Sound Designer: Liliana Occhiuto (with contributions from Masego Pitso)
Lighting Designer: Kate Baldwin
Stage Manager: Wun Zee
Dates + Ticketing
PLEASE NOTE: Due to the impacts on rehearsal as a result of COVID-19, we are starting our season one week later than originally planned, and have extended by one week. The revised season dates are 20th Jan - 19 Feb.
Previews: 20 & 21 January 2022
Season: 22 January - 19 February 2022
Times: Tuesday - Saturday 7.30PM; Sun 5PM
Duration: 70 minutes
Content Note
Depictions of:
Racism and Racist Language
Sexual Harassment and abuse
Domestic Violence
Colourism
References to:
Homophobia
Fatphobia
Ableism
Socio-Economic Discrimination
Suicide
Image credit: Teniola Komolafe
Image credit: Teniola Komolafe
Image credit: Teniola Komolafe
Image credit: Teniola Komolafe
Image credit: Teniola Komolafe
Image credit: Teniola Komolafe
Select Reviews
“A defiant, funny and sometimes heartbreaking play”
– SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
“The exuberance [Masego Pitso] puts into the creation of Tracey, ensures that we fall in love with the character even before she utters her first words.”
– SUZY GOES SEE
“We’re most certainly witnessing the emergence of a star”
– ATYP
Chewing Gum Dreams Playlist by DIOLA
Green Door Theatre Company have commissioned the brilliant DJ, DIOLA, to curate an official Chewing Gum Dreams playlist journeying into a world of self-discovery, power dynamics, beliefs, friendship and love. Press play on this unique blend of soul, R&B, house, reggae, jazz and electronic music on your way to the theatre!
From Cat, Con & Alex: The Old Fitz Theatre Artistic Directors
“To kick off the year, we are thrilled to present the Australian premiere of Michaela Coel’s debut play Chewing Gum Dreams, directed by the brilliant Bernadette Fam and starring shining new talent, Masego Pitso. This is an astonishing work exploring youth, sex, race, friendship - in all its intersectional glory - by one of the most groundbreaking writers of our generation. This was Coel’s breakthrough piece, which launched the award-winning Netflix series Chewing Gum. We cannot wait to welcome the team at Greendoor Theatre Co to the Old Fitz space, fresh off the back of producing their sold-out smash hit seven methods of killing kylie jenner.”