trophy boys

A queer dark comedy about power, privilege… and debating.

It is the biggest night in the academic calendar, the Grand Finale of the Year 12 Interschool Debating Tournament. Performed by a female and non-binary cast in drag, the boys from the elite St Imperium College are locked in a classroom for their short debate prep, arguing ‘that feminism has failed women’.

But what begins as a riotously funny satire on insecure adolescent masculinity and the ego of Australia’s next generation of politicians quickly turns sour.

Winner of the Best New Work (Sydney Theatre Awards, 2024) and nominated for multiple Green Room Awards (2024): Best Production, Best New Writing, Best Directing and Best Performer, Trophy Boys is “the kind of play that has you leaning forward in your seat” (The Guardian).

Following a sold-out national tour and two extensions of its off-Broadway season due to popular demand, Trophy Boys is returning to Brisbane, arriving at PIP Theatre and directed by Anne Pensalfini (Drag King Biron Bothways, writer and co-creator of Dragspeare: Drag Kings do Shakespeare)