The Hero Leaves One Tooth (2023)

Ratcatch Theatre // KXT Broadway, 2023

“David Molloy’s video design seethes and swells with imagery of teeth and mouths and body parts and throbbing blood vessels and carnivorous plants.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐Time Out

“Light design by Jasmin Borsovsky, sound designer Zac Saric and video design by David Molloy all worked in a harmonious melting pot to create a world that was raw, unusual, and yet had a foot firmly in reality. At one stage there was a projection of red silk bed sheets, beckoning me like a lapping shore made of fire, it had me transfixed.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐Sydney Scoop

“It is one of the best things I have seen all year. It felt trashy, politically complex and camp. We loved it.” – Anna Breckon

Neeve can’t stop texting her ex. Her boyfriend Felix is busy trying to curate the perfect dinner party, but it feels more like a hostage situation. As the couple’s fucked-up friends arrive, they surrender their phones for a night of ‘real, analogue connection’. But something is festering beneath the polite social veneer, ready to erupt into chaos at any moment…

The Hero Leaves One Tooth is a ferocious new satire set in a world where women have developed vagina dentata as a means of protection against sexual assault.

Written by Erica J. Brennan // Directed by Cam Turnbull

With Kira-Che Heelan, Michael McStay, Tom Rodgers, Cara Whitehouse, Claudia Shnier, Patricio Ibarra and David Woodland

Lyricist and Composer Jake Nielsen Music Director Alexander Lee-Rekers

Production Design Meg Anderson // Lighting Design Jasmin Borsovszky // Sound Designer, Composer, Arranger Zac Saric // Video Design David Molloy // Dramaturg Joanna Erskine // Intimacy Co-ordinator Shy Magsalin // Stage Manager Grace Sackman // Assistant Director Tahlia Merlino

Produced by Alexander Lee-Rekers, Erica J. Brennan and Cam Turnbull // Presented by Ratcatch Theatre

Images by Clare Hawley