Forest Collective: Fat Pig – The Opera

Name: Forest Collective: Fat Pig – The Opera
Start: 2025-06-08T17:00:00+10:00
End: 2025-06-08T18:30:00+10:00
Location: fortyfivedownstairs

June 8 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

$35

How many insults can you hear before you have to stand up and defend the woman you love?

Tom faces just that question when he falls for Helen, a bright, funny, sexy young woman who happens to be plus-sized—and then some. As Tom faces the taunts and judgment of his peers, Fat Pig questions whether anyone can really see past the surface.

Adapted from Neil LaBute’s award-winning 2004 play, by Australian librettist Miriam Gordon-Stewart and American composer, Matt Boehler, this black comedy examines the nature of beauty and attraction, revealing the operatic reserves of human truth that lie beneath the surface of a workplace rom-com.

CAST
Tom: Michael Honeyman
Helen: Amanda Windred
Carter: Daniel Szesiong Todd
Jeannie: Belinda Dalton

FOREST COLLECTIVE
Karen Chen, clarinet, bass clarinet
Ryan Lynch, clarinet, bass clarinet
Alexander Meagher, percussion
Zac Johnston, violin
Alex Macdonald, viola
Rosanne Hunt, cello

CREATIVES
Music Director: Evan J Lawson
Director: Kate Millett
Set Designer: Max Bowyer
Lighting Designer: Gabriel Bethune
Costume Designer: Oliver Hall
Intimacy Coordinator: Cohan

June 5 – 8

fortyfivedownstairs

TICKETS: from $35

Details

Date:: June 8
Time:: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Series:: Forest Collective: Fat Pig – The Opera
Cost:: $35

Organisers

: Forest Collective
: BK Opera

Venue

: fortyfivedownstairs
: 45 Flinders Lane
Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Australia + Google Map
Phone: 0396629966
: View Venue Website