RAZORHURST

About the show

From the 1920s until the 1930s, two vice queens, Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine, ruled the Darlinghurst underworld. Their rivalry was infamous, leading to violent crimes by razor gangs as each struggled for dominance in sly grog, narcotics and prostitution. In 2019, Kate Leigh's former sly grog shop is about to reopen as a trendy coffee spot, but ghosts in the walls aren't done settling old scores. Razorhurst explores what it means to be a woman in a man's world, forced into a life of crime by circumstance — 'a compelling meditation on the explosive cocktail of gender, class, and power underlying an infamous period in the history of crime.' Australian Premiere.