Darby James in a playful expression of his show Little Squirt

Join musical comedian Darby James for his multi-award-winning cabaret about the process of sperm donation.

  • Where

    Seagull Room

  • When

    16 July 2026 to 18 July 2026
    at 7:00pm to 8:00pm

  • Cost

    $20 - $28
  • Contact

    Bondi Festival

    Website

Darby clicks on a Facebook ad for sperm donation and sets sail across the seas of queer existential mayhem, discovering the absurdities of clinical procreation and considering his own future as a potential gay parent.​

As he navigates questionnaires, psychological evaluations and questions of parenthood, Darby finds himself stranded as a seaman in moral purgatory, facing the question: should we be having children?

Winner: Best Cabaret at Melbourne Fringe Festival (2023).

Winner: Green Room Awards for Outstanding Production, Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Writing (2024)

Winner: The Somewhere: For Us Fringe Award at Edinburgh Fringe (2025)

About the artist

Darby James is an award-winning storyteller, songwriter and musical comedian born in Manchester UK, raised in Canberra (Ngunnawal country) and based in Naarm/Melbourne (Boonwurrung country). His theatre writing includes Post: A New Musical (Something Blue Productions, 2019), Songs of the Northern River (The MC Showroom Hatchery Sponsorship 2019), Protein (Autonomous Inventions 2021-2023), and Little Squirt (Autonomous Inventions 2023, Quiet RIOT 2024-present). Darby hosts occasional musical comedy nights as a testing ground for new material.

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