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LOSING FACE

Category

Play

Country

Australia

Run Dates

Jun 22 - Jul 25, 2026

SOON

Run Dates

2026.06.22 ~ 2026.07.25

Melbourne Theatre Company

World Premiere

About the show

Pack your bags for a perimenopausal Weekend at Bernie’s: an outrageous and unforgettable trip directed by Leticia Cáceres (Erotic Stories, Bump) and starring Michala Banas (Upper Middle Bogan, The Odd Couple) and Genevieve Morris (Dying: A Memoir, Comedy Inc.). Losing Face is an absolutely unhinged and spikily clever new comedy about friendship and unmasking the true price of chasing the fountain of youth. Injectables. Nips, tucks and lifts. A biohacking wellness host on a mission to defy death. Just your average girls’ weekend, courtesy of screenwriter and playwright Marieke Hardy (Heartbreak High, Laid). Travel writer Jo is turning 50 and has invited her two ride-or-dies along for an unforgettable celebration: an all-expenses-paid visit to flashy new wellness resort, The Royal You. Expecting a long-overdue catch-up in steam rooms and infrared saunas, they instead arrive at a high-end medispa, where supercharged cosmetic procedures are upsold to unsuspecting guests. When a medical mishap turns disastrous, the women are left with some wildly unexpected and gravity-defying side effects.

LOSING FACE Info

Details

MARIEKE HARDY Writer LETICIA CÁCERES Director JO BRISCOE Set & Costume Designer AMELIA LEVER-DAVIDSON Lighting Designer KELLY RYALL Composer & Sound Designer LAURA MCKENZIE Assistant Director WHITNEY MCNAMARA Stage Manager CAST MICHALA BANAS Jo WIL KING Tomas GENEVIEVE MORRIS Nurse MADELEINE SAMI Simone CHRISTIE WHELAN BROWNE Lauren

Where it's been performed

Melbourne Theatre Company

Melbourne Theatre Company

Melbourne

Australia

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