Making its Sydney premiere as part of the 2025 Hayes Cabaret Season in June, the award-winning production SUGAR is theatrical, outrageous, silly and sexy.
The show, written by Ro Bright (a Scotsman Fringe First award winner for Daffodils at Edinburgh Fringe), stops in at the Hayes for two nights only before embarking on an international tour to the UK, playing at the famous Assembly Checkpoint for Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The narrative-driven cabaret is directed by Green Room award-winning director Kitan Petkovski (The Inheritance).
Presented by Melbourne-based favourites Bullet Heart Club, SUGAR stars award-winner Tomáš Kantor (Truth, The Inheritance, Watershed) as a radiantly beautiful gender-fluid twink who discovers that there’s money to be made from ‘transactional relationships’ (though their primary source of information is Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman). What could possibly go wrong?
Pop hits from Kylie to Chappell Roan pack this electric cabaret about luxury, power, and being paid to have sex on a grand piano.
“I’m ecstatic to be serving Sydney this salacious sizzling sexy snack of a show. SUGAR totally DEVOURED at Melbourne Fringe, and I’m prepped, plucked and preened to take my tantalising tasty treats your way,” says Tomáš Kantor.
“Are you hungry for an hourlong slick camp pop musical joyride with an undercover overconfident gender queer twink sugar baby at the wheel? Oh honey, I’m delivering the goods to satisfy all your sugar cravings. So get ready to EAT Sydney – I guarantee no leftover crumbs xo.”
Bullet Heart Club (BHC) is a Naarm based creative-industry duo who collaborate with multidisciplinary artists from queer, TGD (trans and gender diverse) and migrant communities to create ever-evolving cross-form projects that integrate theatre with live music, film and performance art.
Established in 2013, BHC is led by Macedonian queer theatre director Kitan Petkovski (he/him) and playwright/screenwriter Ro Bright (they/them). Together their innovative approach to cross-form theatre has seen them recognized with a Scotsman Fringe First Award (Daffodils, Traverse Theatre 2016) and two Green Room Awards (The Gospel According to Jesus Queen of Heaven).
“Cabaret veterans might feel as if they’re witnessing a baby Meow Meow or Paul Capsis.” – The Age
SUGAR
Hayes Theatre, 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay
Season: 19 & 20 June 2025
Bookings: www.hayestheatre.com.au
SUGAR will also be presented in the Space Theatre – Adelaide Festival Centre (14 – 15 June) as part of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival; and The Showroom – Arts Centre Melbourne (30 June). For more information, visit: www.bulletheartclub.com for details.
Image: Tomáš Kantor stars in SUGAR – photo by Meagan Harding