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THE FLEA

4 FEB - 8 MAR 2025

A RADICALLY SURREAL

RE-INTERPRETATION OF THE INFAMOUS CLEVELAND STREET SCANDAL

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London, 1889. Charlie Swinscow, a young post boy, gets busted with 14 shillings in his pocket.

 

But the twist is that he didn’t steal it. The cash was payment for his body, sold to a wealthy aristocrat at a secret gay brothel with ties to the Royal Family.

 

What starts as a petty arrest spirals into something much bigger. Charlie and his mother get caught in the middle of a national scandal that shakes the very foundations of the British Empire.

 

This true story is a wild, unfiltered, unpredictable trip through power, deception and disgrace.

Nothing is as it seems and everything feels like a fever dream.

CAST

Patrick Kennedy Theatre Machine acknowledges and is guided by the allodial owners of the land that we meet on.

We pay our respects to the 29 clans of the Eora nation and recognise elders past and present, as well as all the First Nations people of Australia.

© 2025 by PATRICK KENNEDY THEATRE MACHINE

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