Name: Consent by Nina Raine
Start: 2026-05-14T09:00:00+10:00
End: 2026-05-14T11:30:00+10:00
Location: Catapult Dance

CONSENT
By Nina Raine
Presented by Rational Animals
📆 14 - 23 MAY
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"I dare you to tell the truth."
Why is Justice blind? Is she impartial? Or is she blinkered?
Friends Ed and Tim take opposing briefs in a rape case. The key witness is a woman whose life seems a world away from theirs. At home, their own lives begin to unravel as every version of the truth is challenged.
A powerful, painful, funny play that sifts the evidence from every side and puts Justice herself in the dock.
★★★★★ "Jammed with ideas, rich with humanity... A modern classic." - The Times
★★★★★ "One of Nina Raine's most enjoyable and intelligent plays. Unreservedly recommended." - The Independent
“A tense, entertaining modern-day tragi-comedy.” - Telegraph
“Modern classics don’t come along very often. Consent is, without a shadow of a doubt, just that: an intricately constructed philosophical drama that does for love, law and language what Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen did for particle physics and Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia did with time.” - Variety
Mature Audiences (16+ Event). Content Warning: Discussions and depictions of sexual violence, coarse language, smoke haze, and themes of suicide.
VENUE:
Catapult Dance Choreographic Hub, 880 Hunter Street, Newcastle West NSW 2302
PERFORMANCES:
Thursday, 14th May 7:00pm
Friday, 15th May 7:00pm
Saturday, 16th May 2:00pm
Saturday, 16th May 7:00pm
Sunday, 17th May 2:00pm
Wednesday, 20th May 7:00pm
Thursday, 21st May 7:00pm
Friday, 22nd May 7:00pm
Saturday, 23rd May 7:00pm
Running time: 135 minutes (including interval). Running times are approximate and subject to change without notice.
Latecomers will not be admitted.
Cast: Benjamin Louttit, Samantha Lambert, Zac Smith, Liz Vassilacos, Aoife Gregory, Nat Newman & Amber Wilkes
Creatives:
Director - Tim Kemp
Lighting Designer - Riordan Munnoch
Stage Manager - Liam Kneller