Deus Ex Femina
★★★★★ 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.
Event Details
GENRE: Theatre & Live Performance
DURATION: 60 mins
AGE RATING: Ages 15 +
EXPLICIT LANGUAGE
CONTENT WARNING/S: Sexual Assault or Abuse, Emotional Abuse, Mental Health, Homophobia
SEATED OR STANDING: Seated
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About the presenter: Deus Ex Femina
Deus Ex Femina is an award-winning South Australian independent theatre company, led by writer and performer Katherine Sortini. Making original, actor-centred work with bite, the company puts lived experience, rigorous craft and genuine representation at the centre of everything it does.
Their debut, All The Things I Couldn't Say, sold out and took home the Adelaide Festival Centre InSpace Award (2022). Dirty Energy followed with a sold-out Fringe season, ★★★★★ reviews, and the Holden Street Theatres Award (2024).
In 2025–26, the company is in residence at Goodwood Theatre & Studios as part of the Fortune Favours the Bold program, with projects also selected for The Mill Theatre Residency and State Theatre Company SA's Stateside Season.
The Damage is Done is their latest work.
Website: https://www.deusexfemina.com/
Image Description: Show artwork for "The Damage Is Done" by Katherine Sortini, featuring a performer mid-shout in a maroon top and black tracksuit jacket against a black background. Five-star reviews from The List UK, The Barefoot Review, and A Thousand Words are listed below the title. 
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