Meg Denman on Georgia Gray-Spencer's playwriting debut NEPOBERRY — a world-premiere camp political satire staged at Qtopia's loading dock theatre for Sydney Fringe 2026. A queer hub full of flowers, mates and even a few straight people laughed hard enough that Denman bought a second ticket before the season sold out.

The Sydney debut of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads from W Theatre is a tale of two women. Directed by Diana Volpe and starring Sophie Dillman (Lesley) and Fiona Gordon (Rosemary), the play blends two of Bennett's Talking Heads monologues — 'Nights in the Gardens of Spain' (1998) and 'Her Big Chance' (1988) — into a performance staged in Woollahra Library that oscillates between dry wit and striking tenderness.