By Charles Busch, Produced by Little Ones Theatre, Theatre Works, Brisbane Festival, 2013, Rock Surfers Theatre Company, 2012.

Charles Busch's exuberant cult classic is a tongue-in-cheek parody of 1960s surf and beach party movies with a twist of equally retro high camp horror.

Directed by Stephen Nicolazzo this camp classic  follows the dissasociative world of Chicklet, a Gidget-esque nerd with a dream to surf. When people in the town are attacked in strange sado-masochistic ways, it is up to the surf-bums and a B-Grade Horror star to find the culprit and save Chicklet from her potentially lethal sexual awakening.This production boasts a cross-gendered cast, sixties surf rock hits, and an appreciation of the perverse. Its classic Busch meets the olden age of Hollywood and the homo-eroticism of Point Break.

Following a slew of rave reviews and sell out Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane seasons, Little Ones Theatre's outrageously funny PSYCHO BEACH PARTY went on to win a Green Room Award for Best Female Performer and was nominated for Best Direction and Best Ensemble. It was also nominated for a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress. Psycho Beach Party was also included in The Age's Best of Melbourne Theatre list in 2013.

With: Ash Flanders, Genevieve Giuffre, Kevin Kiernan Molloy, Caitlin Adams, Peter Paltos, Amanda McGregor, Paul Blenheim, Tom Dent and Zoe Boesen.

Director: Stephen Nicolazzo
Set Design: Owen Phillips
Costume/Hair/Make Up Design: Eugyeene Teh and Tessa Pitt
Lighting Design: Katie Sfetkidis
Sound Design: Nate Edmondson
Choreography: Kurt Phelan
Stage Manager: Rebecca Poulter

★★★★★ “Sharp as a wet towel snap and very salty indeed, Stephen Nicolazzo's slick direction and an enthusiastic cast…[have created] a winning start to the year”, Time Out Melbourne

★★★★★ “A perfect dollop of summertime silliness", Time Out Sydney.

★★★★1/2 " Psycho Beach Party is an absolute cack. Hi-lar-ious. Its the funniest show around!" Cameron Woodhead, The Age

★★★★ “Perceptive, bold and sharp”, The Guardian

★★★★ “This is one show that pulls all the cheesy hallmarks of the genre into a blender, sets it to high, leaves the lid off, and presses go, letting the results splatter deliciously over the audience”, Brisbane Times

★★★★ “…a laugh out loud psycho-palooza. If life is feeling a little serious, these joyous 80 minutes will bring it all back into focus”, Arts Hub

★★★★"With rocking song and dance moments, coming out stories, a psychotic mother and beach bums galore, this tightly directed production is all killer, no filler." The Brag, Sydney.