21/08/2026
🔼 Suzie has always been the breaker-upper. The one with the exit strategy. The ending-it speech nailed to a T. Until now.
Because tonight, Suzie’s been dumped. And she’s not taking it well.
Armed with a Narrator turned dating coach, a chaotic archive of early 2000s dating advice, and the relentless optimism of diet culture self-improvement logic, Suzie launches into a mission: win him back. Rebuild herself. Become the version of herself that makes it all reversible.
Think: romance. Think: sabotage. Think: heartbreak as performance sport.
What follows is a spiralling attempt to regain control through performance, instruction, and fantasy. Every strategy is borrowed, outdated, or slightly unhinged. Every moment of clarity is immediately undermined by desire. As reality and imagination begin to blur, Suzie’s world becomes a heightened space where rom-com logic collides with emotional collapse.
Part satire, part rom-com, part clown show, Suzie S*x Binge leans into the absurdity of dating and self-improvement culture, the choreography of desirability, and the exhausting performance of “being fine” while falling apart.
At its core, the work examines female sexuality and emotional repression, and the pressure to remain legible, desirable, and composed even in moments of rupture. Suzie’s attempts to fix herself become increasingly performative, increasingly frantic, and increasingly funny. Suzie S*x Binge is about performing desirability, when what you really want is connection.
SUZIE S*X BINGE runs over the third weekend of Backbone Festival, October 15 - 17.
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BACKBONE FESTIVAL
Get in on the Ground Level
October 1 - 17
Tickets available now at www.backbone.org.au/2026-backbone-festival
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