★★★★
"This is probably one of the darkest pieces of theatre we’ve seen. It’s hard to encourage people to see it. And yet for its writing and performance alone it deserves its 4 stars."
★★★★
"Plays like this are rare... a must-watch for Queer people and, frankly, anyone with the courage to face its raw truths."
★★★★
"Sweetmeat approaches one of society's greatest taboos with maturity, intelligence, and empathy."
SWEETMEAT
'I was born to feel my blood vessels burst under your teeth.'
How far would you go to fulfil your fantasy?
Sigmund has been tormented by sadistic desires since childhood, fuelled by online echo chambers and tenuously restrained by SSRIs. When his fiancée breaks off their engagement and he loses his flat, he moves in with Christian, an eccentric librarian with a painful past. As their shared obsessions come to the fore, their relationship mutates from companionship to love to something intense and terrifying.
With video projection and elements of verbatim theatre and folklore, Sweetmeat is a sizzling story created by a majority queer team that touches on gay loneliness, fantasy, pain, and internet escapism through the lens of a love that burns too bright.
Written by Ivo de Jager
Directed by Connor Geoghegan
Starring Matthew Dunlop & Jamie McClean
Lighting by Jess Parritt
"sexy and repulsive, horrid and argumentative"