Marginalia with No Drama Drama Club
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📢 About the show
Acclaimed theatre company Pummel Squad are back with a new play adapted from Nikolai Gogol’s satirical short story ‘The Nose’, exploring vanity, shamelessness, and the limits of satire in a world that’s beyond parody.
On the same day that a barber gets beaten up for a crime he didn’t commit, Major Pepsi wakes to find his nose has vanished from his face and taken on a life of its own.
What ensues is a madcap quest to claw Pepsi’s nose back, featuring a dazzling array of iconic characters, the humiliating bureaucratic spider’s web of asking for help, a monstrous police force, and a parliament of clowns. As for the barber? Who cares about him.
Directed by Katy Maudlin with a stellar cast including AYA, Alexandra Aldrich and Molly Holohan, Marginalia is a shameless punch-on about privilege, saving face, and cutting off your nose to spite it.
“Pummel Squad have gained a reputation for their wild, physical, silly, cartoonish, hilarious, idiosyncratic, poor theatre over the last few years… I finally understand all the superlatives that have been thrown their way.” Keith Gow, Theatre First
To learn more about the show and read content warnings, you can visit the Marginalia ticketing page.
ℹ️ Access
Check out the fortyfivedownstairs website for access info, and get in touch with us if you have any specific concerns. We’re here to help!
If you can no longer make the show (for whatever reason) please let us know and we'll see if we can find someone else to buy the ticket off you!
⏳ Schedule
4:30pm — We’ll meet you out front of the theatre for some introductions and to organise tickets + we’ll have some spare N95 masks if you need one.
5:00pm — Show begins
6:20pm — Show ends, we’ll take a little ten minute break
6:30pm — We’ll gather for our No Drama Drama Club with a structured group yap about the show.
7:20pm — We'll start wrapping up.
💬 The Post-show Discussion
Pummel Squad’s work plays with theatrical form, so we’ll spend our post-show discussions creating a review with a twist!
This event is hosted on the unceded land of the Kulin nations. We pay our respects to their elders past and present. If you’re a settler like us, you should be paying the rent.