NEW QUEER AUSSIE MUSICAL TO Breaking up is hard to do? Try coming out as a queer teenager! Or not. That’s the dilemma for two best-friends who decide to be each other’s beards instead. What’s a beard, you ask? It’s a way to conceal one’s identity. In this case those best friends, Bet and Ace, pretend to date one another as a cover for their queerness. Of course, this doesn’t work for long as revelations about self and other arise. Truth always finds a way, and in this play, in the most delightful and hilarious way.
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March 2023
Supported by an Artist Project Grant from Frankston City Council, Bearded is a new Aussie queer musical coming to the Frankston Arts Centre for a limited season in March. In it, peninsula-based writer/director Nick Waxman and musician/lead actor Sean Donehue have created a theatre piece that is truly original; a funny, sharp, insightful, reflective play that is pure joy to watch and offers something for everyone. “Bearded is about family given and chosen. It’s a celebration of community. The show might help some people come out which, despite ‘progress’, isn’t really any easier than in decades past. The play’s insight will change perceptions. For some it will be affirming, for others it might be confronting, and some may come to a ‘Jesus moment’, but in the end, the show is just fun,” says Nick. Camp and catchy, funny and ironical, this play will challenge preconceived notions about sexuality, gender, language labels, religion and privilege. Bearded follows the lives of two young people trying to figure themselves out – to discover, express and accept themselves – as all people have to do when coming of age.