By Joel Bray, YIRRAMBOI Festival, Darebin Arts Speakeasy, Joel Bray Dance, 2021

Come in, find a spot, slip into something more comfortable. Let all those inhibitions go baby, we’re gonna get…pre-colonial.

Join, proud Wiradjuri man Joel Bray and a talented team of collaborators including Carly Sheppard, Dan Newell  and Niharika Senepati for a flirty, occasionally filthy and deeply passionate look at the true history of sensuality ‘down under’.

Through painstaking research and personal reflection, the team delve deep into the deliberately misrepresented practices of ceremony to reimagine the songs, dances, partying and perhaps something a little sexier.

Rejecting the white, Christian, ‘straight’-jacket of sexual politics in Australia, this provocative performance blends cabaret, comedy, and choreography to tempt you to take part in this queering and radical reexamination of our close personal histories.

Considerable Sexual License is a playful invitation to explore your own history and relationship to sex, sexuality and personal freedom, and a celebration of Country, community, consent and kinship.

The production was critically acclaimed and sold out its entire season before opening night. Considerable Sexual License toured to Brisbane Festival in 2022 at Brisbane Powerhouse. It also won the 2022 Green Room Award for Best Physical Performance.

Direction & Choreography: Joel Bray
Performers: Carly Sheppard, Niharika Senapati, Daniel Newell and Joel Bray
Composition & Sound Designer: Daniel Nixon
Collaborating Director and Dramaturg: Stephen Nicolazzo
Lighting Designer: Katie Sfetkidis
Lighting Associate: Rachel Lee
Designer: Nathan Burmeister
Technical Production & Stage Management: Lucie Sutherland
Executive Producer: Alison Halit
Program Producer: Lucie Sutherland

★★★★ "There is so much to enjoy in this radical act of queer remembering. The transitions are masterful, the immersive design is effective and all the performers demonstrate a keen theatrical intelligence." Andrew Fuhrmann, The Age

★★★★ “Part-disco, part-confessional, all-awesome.The pleasure and the pain on show combine into a final, thrusting, animal-like dance of thrashing bodies pounding as Bray, Sheppard, Senapati and Ewel daub one another in neon paint then lose themselves in a mesmeric trance. As we watch on, thousands of years fold in on now, tradition is our contemporary guide. Once again, Bray confronts and confounds, leaving us energised, eroticised and contemplative all in one. It's a heady brew." Time Out

★★★★ “As we stand, dance and wander around the circle of Bray’s Garabari, we exist in a similar state – beside these euphoric, and traumatic histories of sensuality that will make you dance, think and flirt in one breath.” Theatre People