Set in the hour before a high-school debate, Trophy Boys is an excoriating exploration of corrosive male entitlement that is both witty and highly incisive.
An excoriating takedown of toxic masculinity and corrosive male entitlement performed entirely in drag by an all-female and non-binary cast?made waves when it premiered in Melbourne last year, and it’s back for a return season at mainstage venues around the country. You’d be remiss not to see it.
The boys catapult between well-constructed, philosophical arguments on why feminism has failed women – it’s not intersectional enough, it’s too focused on equality at a corporate level, it plays into the fallacy of “choice” – with the kind of textbook misogyny that no amount of intellectual reasoning can combat.
The play starts out as a light and lovable romp that pokes fun at the performance of gender – a crowd-pleasing highlight is when the boys gyrate and contort to the tune of Pretty Ricky’sin hilariously exaggerated and camp displays of sexualised masculinity.
From left: Emmanuelle Mattana, Leigh Lule, Gaby Seow and Fran Sweeney-Nash in a scene from Trophy BoysMattana nails lynchpin character Owen, a supercilious brainiac hellbent on achieving his dream of becoming prime minister.
Mattana was a high-school champion debater and her intimate knowledge of this world shines through. That the story has some similarities to the historical sexual assault allegations made against former attorney-general Christian Porter, himself a high school debater, is no accident – it’s the inspiration behind the play. Porter always strenuously denied the allegation and was never charged by police..
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