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Born On A Thursday

28 November 2025 to 21 December 2025 Old Fitz, 129 Dowling St, NSW, Australia.
“We’re not the bad things that happen to us. We are - in spite of those things. And sometimes because of them.”

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After years abroad, April returns to her family home in Western Sydney to a brother irrevocably changed and a mother unyieldingly the same. What begins as a strained homecoming slowly unravels into a desperate reckoning with memory, guilt, and the crippling weight of things left unsaid.


Set across four seasons, Born on a Thursday is a searing new Australian play about the ache of family ties, the long shadow of trauma, and the strange, persistent shape of unconditional love. It's a nod to the toughness and beauty of an ordinary life; to rugby league and kidney beans and the rareness of a well-fitting pair of jeans; to both the power and limitation of learning to get on with things.


Delivered through characters that will stay with you long after you leave the theatre, this is a story about coming home - not in triumph, but with trembling hands.


Producing Company: New Ghosts Theatre Company | Writer: Jack Kearney | Director: Lucy Clements | Producer: Emma Wright | Set Designer: Soham Apte | Costume Designer: Rita Naidu | Sound Designer: Sam Cheng | Lighting Designer: Veronique Benett | Dramaturg: Mary Rachel Brown | Production Manager: Izzy Morrissey | Stage Manager: Oscar Ali | Assistant Producer: Izzy Williams | Cast (of 5): Sharon Millerchip, Owen Hasluck


Approximate Run Time: 2 hours 50 minutes (including interval)


Content Warnings: Self-harm, domestic violence, traumatic brain injury, suicidal ideation, coarse language. Recommended for ages 15+.


This season of Born on a Thursday is proudly supporting the Australian Sports Brain Bank - an Australian not-for-profit charity organisation who use expert diagnostic neuropathology, coupled with research, to understand chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and other brain pathology that is associated with repetitive head injury in sport and elsewhere. They empower families and loved ones by providing accurate diagnoses, and we use donor tissue for biomedical research into CTE and other brain disorders. Throughout the season we are raising awareness of and funds for the ASBB. Donations can be made HERE. All gifts above $2 are tax-deductible.