Haunting, stirring and unmissable, this powerful new production will leave you truly comprehending there is no place like home.

Creators and performers Sarah Butler and Jillian O’Dowd present a highly theatrical and thoughtful expression of what it means to be homeless.

Both are billed as Ruby Tuesday, a woman in her 50s living in a derelict theatre squat in Sydney.

Ruby’s mum was Mick Jagger’s muse and inspiration for the Stones’ song – or maybe she was really an addled drug addict trapped in a cycle of poverty and abuse.

 
Butler is reminiscent of King Lear upon the heath, revealing Ruby’s inner turmoil and mounting madness raging at a world of injustice.

O’Dowd is her lyrical, musical Fool, chiding and echoing her thoughts as much as a taunt as support.

Both are brilliant.

As Jagger sings: “Lose your dreams and you will lose your mind – Ain’t life unkind?”

This play will make you laugh and cry but the creators urge us to act to “take what you need – and give what you can”. All donations go to the Hutt Street Centre.