Costume Designer

The European premiere of Van Badham’s acclaimed black comedy Banging Denmark opens at the multi-award-winning Finborough Theatre for a four-week limited season on Tuesday, 16 April 2024.

A biting and hilarious new “rom-com” by one of Australia’s leading social commentators (and former Literary Manager of the Finborough Theatre), Van Badham. Feisty feminist academic Ishtar is so broke she’s living in the photocopy room, following a hefty out-of-court settlement to a toxic male ‘troll’. All she has left is her pride.

Management consultant Jake is high on life, with a lucrative side gig as a misogynist podcaster and pick-up artist. Until his latest crush – gorgeous Danish librarian Anne – fails to fall for his usual ‘game’.

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Banging Denmark

Finborough Theatre

Anne is tired. Tired of menopause. Tired of working in a dying NHS. And tired of her lazy sexist Daily Mail reading husband Don. But they’ve been together twenty nine years. They know each other inside out. They’ve survived so much.

Then COVID plunges the country into lockdown, forcing them to isolate together. After all, the home is a place of safety… isn’t it?

As the world falls apart outside, Anne and Don’s marriage slowly falls apart inside. But soon there will be a solution. Won’t there?

Inspired by true events, Jab is a coruscating new black comedy, exploring power, gender, domestic violence, conspiracy theories, ignorance, and the limits of love.

Leah Kelly

Costume Designer

Events

Past events

Apr 16 - May 11, 2024

Banging Denmark · Finborough Theatre

Feb 20 - Mar 16, 2024

Jab · Finborough Theatre

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