DIRTY BIRDS

Australia’s beloved McElhinney sisters share the stage for the very first time, taking on starring roles in their debut play, Dirty Birds, that blurs the line between truth and fiction, journeying through the past, present, real and absurd.

This brand-new Australian work brims with humour, beauty and sadness. Intensely relatable, Dirty Birds explores the journey of characters who have been disappointed by life itself, constantly living in effort to be anyone but themselves, to satisfy everyone but themselves. Forced to leave their humble abode they are faced with an ultimatum from nature. But there’s a problem - they can’t seem to get it together to do what needs to be done. What ensues is an elaborate search through memories, familiar rituals and endless cups of tea, to find something that will shake them from their predicament before it’s too late.

From the brilliant creative minds of Mandy McElhinney (Wakefield, The Glass Menagerie) and Hayley McElhinney (Mystery Road: Origins, Oil), Dirty Birds is the extraordinary culmination of twenty years of dreaming and introspection. Deeply rooted in the sisters' own Irish heritage, this remarkable production delves into the human struggle to survive in a society that’s constantly changing the goal posts on how to live.