This show belongs to the Adelaide Fringe 2024 season. This season is now over.

The receiver and cord for a red rotary phone lies on top of an open Yellow Pages. A pencil and a plain green business card also sits on the page. The card reads: The Hotline. Call now.

Adelaide Fringe 2024

The Hotline

Please call 1800 960 929 for access.

The Hotline allows callers to explore anecdotes on reproductive healthcare via a phone menu with each user creating their own choose-your-own-adventure style narrative. Satirising anti-choice pregnancy helplines, The Hotline explores how patriarchal medicine impacts those experiencing reproductive health issues.

★★★★ "Navigating Kasey Gambling’s deliriously cheerful, malignantly patriarchal parody of a reproductive healthcare “help” line feels like being stuck in limbo, halfway between The Handmaid’s Tale and The Stepford Wives." - Stephen A. Russell, The Age

Presented by: The Honeytrap

Film and Digital • On Demand

Victoria • SA Premiere

: Fringe Fund Recipient

Reviews

This not-allowed-to-choose-your-own adventure in “hold please” gaslighting is both chilling and darkly comic. - Stephen A. Russell, The Age
It’s confronting, infuriating and playful all at once. - Lakshmi Ganapathy, Arts Hub

Suitability & warnings

Content rating: M

Family friendly: No

Coarse Language: Occasional, Mild

Mental Health

Please note

Reference to medical procedures

Accessibility

: High audio content
: Audience members interact from the seated or standing area

Presenter

Presented by: The Honeytrap

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