WOMEN CAN BE ANYTHING – INCLUDING BEING GLORIOUSLY, SHAMELESSLY STUPID
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★★★★★ “Steph, Nic, and Tess are an absolute force of nature” Binge Fringe
★★★★1/2 “Insightful and fresh takes on rhetoric that has inspired activists for decades” InDaily
★★★★ “Full of cheek, good times and irresistible energy” The List
★★★★ “As bitingly satirical as it is silly” Time Out Melbourne
WA, THURSDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2026: Who decides the benchmark of feminism? Society does what the individual thinks is right, but not everyone is doing the emotional labour for the men around them or living in the trenches raising children. Certainly not Steph, Nic and Tess, who are unmarried twenty-somethings doing the best they can.
Recently taking out the top award at Geelong Comedy Festival, Sugar Bits are Feminist Trash is smeared with socio-political grime and idiocy. It is about how trashy we can be as activists. The trio say, ‘We’re not perfect and have plenty of nights when we can’t even bring ourselves to take the bins out.’ Life is messy. Life is stinky. Life is trashy.
Sure, some feminists do need to lift their game, like the show’s pro-life Pentecostal priest’s daughter who thinks she’s helping and the potato sack-wearing whistle-blowing witch burner. Do we judge them? We’re trying not to, but we do. Supported and funded by ARTRAGE, Sugar Bits encourage conversations with ridiculous comedy, absurd sketches, characters and razor-sharp songs that validate the feminist experience, such as the fan-favourite hillbilly earworm ‘The Feminism Left My Body When…’
They say, ‘We laugh at the fact that we’re not perfect, because if we’re trying to be perfect, surely we’re doing the work of the patriarchy.’
FRINGEWORLD
20-31 January 2027 (10 shows)
The Pleasure Garden – The Hat Trick (Russell Square, Northbridge)
9:20pm $21 – $45
Tickets on sale now at: https://fringeworld.com.au/fringefeed/events/sugar-bits-are-feminist-trash-fw2027