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PRAMKICKER by MOTheatre
Sadie Hasler’s hit comedy is a vulnerable, potty-mouthed love-letter to modern women.
Jude is angry. Susie’s chugging custard again.
When Jude is arrested for kicking off in a café full of passive-aggressive "yummy mummies," she’s sent to anger management. Susie, determined to make sure Jude’s next jumpsuit isn’t one with a serial number, tags along. But Susie’s not just there for moral support—she’s nursing secrets of her own. In this no-holds-barred, G&T-fuelled D&M, the sisters dive into the mess of adulting, expectations of motherhood, and a woman’s worth. It’s a middle finger to the labels we’re forced to wear, and a chance to figure out who the hell we are now we’re all grown up. MO Theatre invites you to your court-mandated session—BYO feminine rage.
Pramkicker was first produced and performed by Old Trunk Theatre at Edinburgh Fringe 2015. This brand-new production, with text updated to speak to Queensland audiences, debuted as part of Queensland Theatre Company's Independent Theatre Initiative DOOR 3 in May 2025.
MEET MO Theatre......
Co-founded by Brisbane Actors Sarah Ann McLeod and Sarah Ogden, MO’s Modus Operandi is making contemporary theatre that elevates female perspectives and amplifies the work of female creatives.
When the Sarahs reached peak thirst for femme forward, juicy narratives MO was born.
MO Theatre are committed to creating a safe, inclusive space where all identities are celebrated. Diversity fuels our creativity, and everyone is welcome—on our stage, behind the scenes, and in our audience.
The Reviews......
Brisbane review – Pramkicker: theatre at its absolute best.
By David Wilson
Mo Theatre’s production of Pramkicker is raw, real, moving, challenging, confronting, compelling, thought-provoking and absolutely hilarious - theatre at its best!
The Door 3 initiative of Queensland Theatre is an entry-point for Queensland based theatre collectives to stage bold and blistering independent works in the intimate Diane Cilento Studio. And if Pramkicker is anything to go by, the initiative will be a rousing success.
Pramkicker is a brilliantly written, uniquely framed insight into the very real, yet every-day struggles faced by women in an often child-centric society, asking questions that go to the very heart of society’s expectations of a woman’s identity and worth. The play is cleverly set within a court-ordered anger management session attended by two sisters after one loses the plot at a group of passive-aggressive yummy-mummies and kicks a pram. The audience is effectively part of the anger management session from the outset and is quickly immersed in the dynamic roller coaster of emotions that unfolds around them.
Pramkicker covers a lot of ground in its 75 minutes without interval, with fast paced dialogue and frantic, high-energy delivery balanced wonderfully by moving, tender moments. It is a brilliantly powerful study of gendered questions including the expectations of women, and by women, including a woman’s worth, role and purpose, reproductive rights and decisions, relationships, motherhood and sisterhood. While it traverses very heavy themes including sexual assault, pregnancy, abortion, drug and alcohol use, it does so with such a healthy dose of irreverence and genuine humour that it hits the mark as a brilliantly sharp and insightful comedy.
The overall effect achieved by the wonderful co-directors Amy Ingram and Nerida Matthaei was perfectly on point and evident in the very tight opening night performance. The deceptively simple set was perfectly conceived by Ada Lukin, with sound and lighting by Brady Watkins and Christine Felmingham so good that it essentially acted as a third character.
With all that said, the stage totally belonged to Sarah Ann McLeod (Jude) and Sarah Ogden (Susie) who were both absolutely brilliant. It was wonderful to see both give themselves so fully to their roles with such confident abandon. These are powerhouse performances, without doubt befitting the extremely sharp script, and a genuine joy to experience. While each was wonderful individually, it was the development and reveal of their nuanced on-stage relationship that really brought the magic. And with their impressive ability to shift between characters and between the full range of emotions so quickly, from aggression to heart-wrenching, to bewildered, to despair, to defiant, to almost-but-not-quite-beaten, this really is an acting masterclass by both.
Do yourself a favour and see Mo Theatre’s production of Pramkicker - this is theatre at its absolute best.
On Tour!
In June 2026 MO is packing the prams in the van and taking PRAMKICKER to regional QLD audiences. Before the rubber hits the road, we need to whip the old gal into lean, mean FEROCIOUS touring shape.
In 2025 the Sarah's at MO Theatre assembled a crack team of Queensland’s finest Femme theatre artists and a new Aussie version of PRAMKICKER by Sadie Hasler was born in all her messy, hot-pink glory. Hitting the road in June 2026 (and beyond till we drop!) MO is raising funds to re-mount the production in lean, mean tourable form. We want to take the theatre to the people, stuffing our van with all the equipment we need to offer a sophisticated, slick, sucker punch of a show in every Community Hall and Civic centre we can find. Thanks to the ACF Boost program, your donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar with a funding "boost up to $5, 000 from Creative Australia.
Funds raised will be used to pay ARTIST WAGES for remount rehearsals to whip PRAMKICKER into lean mean tour-able form for a race around Queensland’s Western Touring Circuit for three weeks in June 2026. But it doesn’t end there. The show, with the TOURING SET we create in this initial remount, can tour for years to come, bringing the joy of recognition and connection and solidarity to women across the country. Successfully mounting their first regional tour will cement MO as a feminist force for good (and damn good theatre) in Queensland’s Independent Theatre ecology, building on the momentum kick started by Queensland Theatre Company's Door 3 Program and carrying the flame forward.
Praise for PRAMKICKER:
“A defiant, dazzling, dirty love letter to women … run to get a ticket” — Stage Whispers
“Raw, moving and hilarious … this is theatre at its absolute best.” — Absolute Theatre
“A taut, high-energy ride through expectations of motherhood and a woman’s worth.— Blue Curtains Brisbane
“A sharp, irreverent, and thought-provoking two-hander with biting humour and emotional depth.” — Scenstr
“Profane, poetic, and profound.” — Stage Whispers
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