A Nightime Travesty by A Daylight Connection, 2025, Malthouse Theatre, ASIATOPA, Brink Productions

Join the acclaimed motley crew A DAYLIGHT CONNECTION on the last plane hurtling out of Earth.

Who will survive this wild ride (and its unruly passengers)? Can flight attendant Angel defeat God’s greatest gift in a battle for the ultimate prize?

Find out in… A Nightime Travesty… an epic First Nations vaudevillian musical nightmare that is equal parts sardonic, cheeky, and heart breaking. It’s a non-stop riot of music, parody, and political punch- a fever dream that feels like Babes in The Wood on acid.

A Nightime Travesty takes strands of kitsch colonial Australiana (19th Century Vaudeville of the Tivoli era, Hey Hey Its Saturday’s Aussie cringe, and musical Variety Shows like In Melbourne Tonight) and guts them like a fish, creating a bombastic bloodbath on stage that it both horrific and emotionally resonant.

With explosions, zany costumes, gruesome decapitations, existential horror, Blak humour, romance, genocide and a live band, there’s something for everyone at this perpetual party floating in our neglected psyches!

Leading independent artists Kamarra Bell-Wykes and Carly Sheppard (CHASE) bring to Malthouse a revamped version of the smash-hit production that brought audiences to their feet at every one of its sold-out performances at Yirramboi Festival, now directed by Stephen Nicolazzo (Loaded).

Strap in for a ferocious adventure that pushes form, genre and the realms of reality with a renowned crew hell-bent on re-imagining what First Nations performance can be.

Presented by Malthouse Theatre and Asia TOPIA, Arts Centre Melbourne.
Produced by Bureau of Works and supported by Brink Productions.

Originally commissioned and presented by YIRRAMBOI Festival 2023.

Co-Creator + Performer Kamarra Bell-Wykes
Co-Creator + Performer Carly Sheppard
Director Stephen Nicolazzo
Additional Performers Zach Blampied + Peter Wykes
Musician, Set + Co-Sound Designer Smallsound
Musician + Co-Sound Designer Richie Brownlee
Lighting Designer Gina Gascoigne
Executive Producer Erin Milne
Brink Secondments Alexis West + Kate Cheel
First Nations Fellows Sonya Rankine + Jannali Jones