After a workplace indiscretion shatters his elite footy physiotherapy career, Ard Panicker finds himself begging for work at a metaphysical health spa, selling Ayurvedic rubdowns to yummy mummies in Bondi.
With his sense of self at an all time low and staring down a sea of healing crystals, green juices and sound baths, Ard wonders how the hell his life took him from sport to spirituality in one fell swoop. His search for answers takes him to Kerala, South India, where he meets an enlightened and enigmatic tantric guru. But when he returns to Sydney, Ard's body begins to shudder with mysterious seizures—accompanied by waking visions of a terrifying, all-powerful deity.
What happened to Ard in India? … And will he ever get his mind back?
From the brilliant brain of playwright Nicholas Brown, Sex Magick is a wildly funny (and just plain wild) exploration of queerness, masculinity and South Asian-Australian identity.
NICHOLAS BROWN is actor, playwright, screenwriter, singer and songwriter. A NIDA graduate, he has had lead roles in the Indian/Bollywood films Sedition, Pratichhaya, Love You To Death and Kites. In Australia, Brown has appeared in the films unINDIAN, Random 8, A Man’s Gotta Do, Temptation and The Characters. TV roles include The Code 2, Packed To The Rafters, Mr and Mrs Murder, The Elegant Gentleman’s Guide to Knife Fighting, Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away, Lucky Dragon, City Homicide, Home and Away, The Cooks, White Collar Blue and Heartbreak High. Theatre credits include Lumiere in Disney India’s Beauty and the Beast, Jesus in Alyque Padamsee’s Jesus Christ Superstar in Mumbai, Dead Man Brake, The Laramie Project, A Counting And Cracking Of Heads, Rehaan Engineer’s Seven Jewish Children, Rehaan Engineer’s Doctrine: How to Survive Under Siege, Miss Bollywood – The Shilpa Shetty Musical, The Oresteia, Romeo and Juliet, Fewer Emergencies, Spew and Frozen. His screenwriting credits include Tantra 2 and the fantasy film The Brownies. Brown is a proud member of Actors’ Equity and the Equity Diversity Committee.
| Cast Info | 6F, 15M, (doubling available) |
| Genres | Comedy, Surreal/magic realism |
| Themes | Diverse sexuality themes, Multicultural themes, Large Cast, LGBTQIA+, Political/Social themes |
| Audiences | Adult |
| Extent | 104 |
| Edition | CTS |
| Size | 210 x 137 mm |