The Damage Is Done | Feast Festival 2026
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★★★★★ The List
★★★★★ A Thousand Words
★★★★★ The Barefoot Review
When a devastating secret about her sister shatters the family equilibrium, Isadora seizes the moment to tell her own truth, certain nothing could be worse. She's wrong.
The Damage is Done is a taut, high-voltage solo about queerness, sisterhood and the fault lines running through an Italian-Australian home. Fiercely intimate and darkly funny, it lays bare loyalty, shame and love; what survives, how we transform, and what love lasts once The Damage is Done.
In a family where silence is its own language, Isadora has been waiting for the right moment. She thought she'd found it. What follows is a reckoning - when the story you've been holding collides with the stories others have been keeping, and love is not quite enough to hold the shape of what remains.
Achingly honest, darkly comic, and unmistakably queer: a show about the damage families do in the name of love, and what, if anything, can be rebuilt.
CONTENT WARNINGS
Strong language and swearing
Homophobia
Emotional and Domestic Abuse
References to child sexual abuse offences
Infertility
Mental health distress
SENSORY NOTES
Use of strobe lighting
Lights flickering (for a short time then stopping)
Lights flickering (for a short time then stopping)
★★★★★ A Thousand Words
★★★★★ The Barefoot Review
When a devastating secret about her sister shatters the family equilibrium, Isadora seizes the moment to tell her own truth, certain nothing could be worse. She's wrong.
The Damage is Done is a taut, high-voltage solo about queerness, sisterhood and the fault lines running through an Italian-Australian home. Fiercely intimate and darkly funny, it lays bare loyalty, shame and love; what survives, how we transform, and what love lasts once The Damage is Done.
In a family where silence is its own language, Isadora has been waiting for the right moment. She thought she'd found it. What follows is a reckoning - when the story you've been holding collides with the stories others have been keeping, and love is not quite enough to hold the shape of what remains.
Achingly honest, darkly comic, and unmistakably queer: a show about the damage families do in the name of love, and what, if anything, can be rebuilt.
CONTENT WARNINGS
Strong language and swearing
Homophobia
Emotional and Domestic Abuse
References to child sexual abuse offences
Infertility
Mental health distress
SENSORY NOTES
Use of strobe lighting
Lights flickering (for a short time then stopping)
Lights flickering (for a short time then stopping)
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Where is it happening?
Goodwood Theatre & Studios, 166 Goodwood Rd, Goodwood SA 5034, Australia, Adelaide
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Host or PublisherDeus Ex Femina
