City of the Plain

Sunday 18th May
6:30pm at KXT Broadway

by Lachlan Parry
Directed by Lily Hayman

When the first governor of New South Wales, Arthur Phillip, stepped ashore, he said “There are two crimes that would merit death; murder and sodomy. For either of these crimes I would wish to deliver him as a prisoner to the natives of New Zealand and let them eat him.” City of the Plain is a comedy anthology exploring Sydney’s relationship between gay sex and straight people. From the breakroom at Myer George St to the baron cultural landscape of Cronulla Boulevard, Sydney has a dark and delicious past of cultivating scandal and sodomy, at the same time as critiquing it. These are the sodomites that Governor Arthur Phillip warned us about...