
THE HELENDALE
NUDE FOOTY CALENDAR
A PLAY BY JAKE STEWART
DIRECTED BY JAKE STEWART
SYNOPSIS
The Helendale Hornets Footy Club is in financial trouble and it looks like it’s just gonna go under, unless someone comes up with one heck of an idea.
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Angus may just have one heck of an idea…
The footy guys are all kinda accidentally handsome.
And their illogical athletic pastime has rendered them well-built and quite evenly tanned.
And handsome well-built men sure do look good naked.
And people, yeah, also need to know what day of the week it is.
For the good of the town, the happiness of their mates, and their love of the sport, the footy shorts are coming off.
A play that tells three parallel stories of being a gay guy in an Australian country town.
It’s about mateship, about men, about sit-ups, about locker rooms, about love, about loathing, and about that town you drove through that time when you met a friendly guy with a dog or something and thought ‘Hey, maybe I’d like living here’, but you were like, never gonna actually consider ever doing that.

PICTURED: Shane Palmer
PHOTOGRAPHER: Billy Hennessy

CAST
ANGUS – Jack Wunsch
BLAZE – Seb Muirhead
BRIK – Jamie Turner
CASSIDY – Sam Porter
CONOR – Nicholas White
CLINT – Shane Palmer
CURTIS – Shannon Allas-Scott
DARREN – Matt Coleman
DANNY – Shane Palmer
ERNIE – Sam Porter
HEATH – Alec Steedman
HOLDEN – Jamie Turner
JACK – Seb Muirhead
JEFF – Sam Porter
MASON – Luke Thomas
NATHAN – Shane Palmer
REEF – Daniel Agar
RYAN – Jamie Turner
TOM – Matt Coleman
TREV – Alec Steedman
PICTURED: Seb Muirhead and Jamie Turner
PHOTOGRAPHER: Billy Hennessy
CREW
DIRECTOR – Jake Stewart
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR – Emily Tambree
LIGHTING AND SET – Lindsay Templeton
LIGHTING OPERATION – Govin Ruben
COSTUME – Patrick Cook
ORIGINAL MUSIC & LYRICS – Jake Stewart
BONUS TRIVIA
Our 2018 production of 'The Helendale Nude Footy Calendar' was performed at Gasworks Arts Park in Albert Park.
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It was part of the 2018 Midsumma Festival.
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The season ran from January 31 'til February 3.