Co-written by an early-career team of Sunny Grace, Clare Hennessy and Richie Black, this new play spans the cultural chasm between the Oz Rock revival of the early 1990s and the advent of TikTok as the record company A&R department’s best friend.

In flashback, we encounter Amber (Zoe Carides), big news in her day, a hard-livin’, hard lovin’ riot grrrl, Australia’s own Courtney Love and very much a handful from a management point of view.

Zoe Carides in The Bridge. Photo © Ravyna Jassani

Always clawing against the sexism of the music industry and its demands that she conform, Amber eventually quit the business – a move precipitated by an unexpected pregnancy. From there she melted into suburban obscurity – “the Karen Carpenter of Canley Vale”, she jokes over wine and Cheezels.

And Amber would have carried on quite happily that way were it not for a TikTok created by Alyssa (Clare Hennessy), whose ironic sexy dance to one of Amber’s feminist rock anthems has gone viral. 

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