A new electro-clash cabaret from the Boudicca of Australian musical comedy.

With more than 40 career award-nominations to her name, imagine what this singer-songwriter can do now she's on escitalopram.

Geraldine Quinn ('Spicks and Specks', 'RocKwiz', 'Upper Middle Bogan' and ‘The Project') followed up her runaway hit 'The Passion of Saint Nicholas' (winner of four 2024 Green Room Awards for cabaret) with a brand new, thrilling art-smash meld of music documentary and concert skewering the art vanity project itself.

'Bastard Joy' was an underground sensation in Melbourne International Comedy Festival, drawing art punk inspiration from 'The Teaches of Peaches' and The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, while satirising the most indulgent high profile ego projects. 'Bastard Joy' is an absurd, high-octane original synth-dipped hyperpop cabaret described by audiences as "chaotic", "a masterclass in high art ridiculousness" and "just so fun and good, a really funny, weird slapper of a show".

Half hagiography, half club-gig, brace yourself for a melding of filmed "documentary" with live performance to celebrate the career that never was.

Part revisionist history, part concert, part the coolest nightclub you've ever blagged your way into - all glorious Bastard Joy.

“A wild ride for these darkest times led by a performer at the top of her game" - Time Out Melbourne
"More hooks than a fishing tackle shop" - Chortle (UK)
"Hilarious buffoonery" - The Saturday Paper
"Stupendous original songs” – The Age
“A performer that deserves to be an Australian icon” – Lilithia Reviews