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This show belongs to the Adelaide Fringe 2021 season. This season is now over.

Baby, What Blessings By Siofra Dromgoole - A photo of a woman staring straight ahead. Her hair is tied back and she is wearing large hoop earrings. Her eyes are blue and the top she is wearing is orange. The background is light blue.

Baby, What Blessings By Siofra Dromgoole

Theatre and Physical Theatre • Performance
South Australia • Australian Premiere
"The other day I told someone I didn't think anyone did 69 between the ages of eighteen and fifty. Before you know what you're doing, and again when you really know what you're doing."

Meet Billie. 19. Hilariously self-aware and hopelessly naive. She's at the age where every single new thing she experiences causes her to entirely reassess her life, and the newest thing to happen to her, is Amal.

Billie is beginning to understand that most of her actions exacerbated a delicate universe Amal was already aware of - the politics of being the only black man in a white space. Katherine Sortini's captivating, compelling performance grapples with honesty and responsibility; how far we are bound by our own realities and the intricacies of truly being heard.

Presented by: Deus Ex Femina

Deus Ex Femina is an Adelaide-Melbourne based independent theatre company founded by theatre maker Katherine Sortini. Katherine Sortini has been privileged enough to work with companies like the State Theatre Company of South Australia, RUMPUS, Ladylike Theatre Collective and South Australian Playwrights Theatre. She was also selected to be a part of the ATYP 2020 National Studio where she started the first original work for Deus Ex Femina, ‘disease, perceive, appease.’

Deus Ex Femina is passionate about telling stories and creating provocative, thoughtful theatre focusing on We aspire to use our platform to inspire, learn, collaborate and educate. Deus Ex Femina’s debut will be 'Baby, What Blessings' in The Adelaide Fringe.

Reviews & Fringefeed Reacts

  • Katherine is engaging throughout, her portrayal of Billie both charismatic and infuriating. - Anna Jeavons, Mindshare

  • Sortini’s interpretation of Dromgoole’s script draws out the nuanced, heart-breaking, and charmingly honest content within the text. - Michelle Wakim, On The Record