W
By Madelaine Nunn
Directed by Rachel Chant
W
Inside the four walls of an elite AFLW club, a season tests everything, leadership, resilience, and the price of staying in the game.
Set inside the high-pressure world of AFLW, ‘W’ tracks an elite women’s football team throughout their season as they push towards finals. At its centre is Rosie, the team’s star captain, navigating leadership, legacy, and the cost of staying at the top.
As the team trains, wins, and fractures, personal lives collide with professional expectations. Ambition, motherhood, and media scrutiny sit alongside the raw physicality of the game. Success on the field demands sacrifice off it - and every choice has a consequence.
Fast-paced, funny, and emotionally charged, ‘W’ is an intimate and gritty look at women’s sport at a turning point: where bodies are pushed, relationships are tested, and legacy is anything but guaranteed.
First produced by New Ghosts Theatre Company
& Old Fitz Theatre,
Sydney
29 May - 18 June 2026
cast and creatives
PLAYWRIGHT: Madelaine Nunn
DIRECTOR: Rachel Chant
PRODUCERS: Lucy Clements & Emma Wright
SET & PROPS DESIGNER: Meg Anderson
COSTUME DESIGNER: Aloma Barnes Siraswar
SOUND DESIGNER & COMPOSER: Clare Hennessy
LIGHTING DESIGNER: Luna Yuet Yee Ng
PRODUCTION MANAGER: Topaz Marlay-Cole
STAGE MANAGER: Cerys Greason-Walker
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR: Poppy Lynch
INTIMACY COORDINATOR: Cristabel Sved
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Jess Tovey
DIRECTOR OBSERVERSHIP: Tess Bowers
ASSISTANT SET DESIGNER: Rosie Slaviero
PRODUCING COMPANY: New Ghosts Theatre Company
CAST (of 6): Danielle Cormack, Celeste Cortes-Davis, Edyll Ismail, Ally Morgan, Shannon Ryan, Grace Smibert
reviews
★★★★ “90 minutes of non-stop action. Absorbing, funny, occasionally shocking and rarely less than all-out and full-on ...Laugh and gasp, and be moved by the unexpected.”
Stage Noise
★★★★ “Tightly crafted, highly efficient and frequently funny dialogue. ”
Sydney Morning Herald
★★★★★ “Captivating and heart wrenching”
FringeFeed
★★★★ “sitting, screaming is a work of gripping theatre.”
Suzy Wrong Suzy Goes See
★★★★ “Compelling theatre... a well crafted, robust play, written by Madelaine Nunn.”
David Kary, Sydney Arts Guide
★★★★”Deeply engaging… Nunn’s writing is on-voice”
Wolfgang von Flugelhorn ★★★★ Arts Hub
“This excellent one-act play... It’s hard to believe that a new play could hit the mark so well...The largest kudos must go to the actual creator of this messy picture of adolescent confusion, Madelaine Nunn.”
Stage Whispers
“Nunn’s script is brilliantly crafted... deeply moving and intensely inspiring.”
Paul Gilchrist - Theatre Red
“Nunn has once again shown audiences why she is one of Australia’s finest writers”
Gavin Roach, Australian Arts Review
“Nunn has created a world that is complex, rich, troubling and at times rewarding, through her poignant writing for a single character.”
East Side Radio
★★★★ “Another incredible show for the Old Fitz. An original one woman play, written by the ever so talented, Madelaine Nunn.”
★★★★ Spot on Sydney
“Remarkable… one of the best shows that I've seen at the Blue Room Theatre”
Marisa Quinn-Haisu, Weekend Notes
“A piece that challenges us to defy its title. This piece yearns for us to stand, and shout our defiance from the rooftops. Nunn’s new play holds an air of Prima Facie about it... (Sitting, screaming) serves as a vital reminder of the endurance of young women in a system set up to see them struggle. Nunn’s piece of new work is also a targeted excavation of the foundations of the public school system.”
Justin Clarke- Theatre Thoughts
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