About RUMPUS

RUMPUS is a community of professional independent theatre makers facilitating fierce, thrilling and innovative new theatre in Adelaide.

Founded in 2019 by Yasmin Gurreeboo (Artistic Director at ActNow Theatre and Artistic Director of Foul Play Theatre Company), Nescha Jelk (former resident artist at State Theatre Company South Australia) and independent performer and theatre-maker Rebecca Mayo, RUMPUS was a response to the lack of a thriving industry second tier, with isolated independent artists and companies struggling with limited resources and support.

RUMPUS is now a fully fledged collective of theatre makers. Our members work hard to provide artists with the opportunity to create year-round and give audiences the opportunity to experience exciting new theatre in an affordable and accessible way.

Welcome.

Welcome gender non-binary, gender non-conforming, gender fluid, transgender, welcome all genders and no genders, welcome old, young, not old, not young, ageing and ageless, selfless and helpless, black folk, brown folk, yellow folk, red folk, blue folk, white folk, clear folk, inbetween folk, unseen folk and unclean folk.
Welcome to all first nations people.
Welcome queers, gays, lesbians, bis, tris, as, pans, trans, trans, trans, inters, polys, bears, dykes, otters, switches, daddies and doms, mummies and toms (boys).
Baby butch and baby dyke and babies.
Kinks and twinks.
Friends of Dorothy, and the whole gang.
Welcome to the sad.
Welcome to the mad.
Welcome to the downhearted.
Welcome to the jungle.
New arrivals, late arrivals, those on their way.
Believers, non-believers and dreamers.
Loners and losers.
Nerds and geeks.
Geeks and freaks.
Freaks and fans of Twin Peaks.
Bagginses and Boffins, Tooks and Brandybucks, Grubbs, Chubbs, Hornblowers, Bolgers, Bracegirdles and Proudfoots.
Socially awkward, socially anxious, awkwardly social and anxiously unsocial.
Depressed, disturbed, disguised, disenfranchised.
To the single mums and dads.
To the orphans.
To the fallen, and the risers,
And to ALL shapes and sizes.
Disabled, unstable, unable, unhappy, unhealthy, unhelped and unhomed. Undead.
My bitches, my brothers, my motherfuckers and my mothers.
Welcome women.
Welcome men - not all men.
Welcome ladies and gentlemen.

And anyone who hasn’t seen themselves mentioned on this list welcome to you. It is because we might miss people out that we don’t make a list, but we also need to start to see everyone.

Welcome to RUMPUS.

Written by Tim Overton with Abbie Heuer, Ezra Juanta and Kidaan Zelleke.