Crims

Crims is a new physical theatre piece by Christopher Samuel Carroll, inspired by true stories from the violent underworld of 1920s Sydney. In the saloons, billiard rooms, brothels, and racetracks of a raging metropolis erupting into life, gunmen, conmen, coiners and swindlers, bootleggers, burglars, politicians and hoodlums seized their share.

Developed with an eclectic ensemble of local performers, this world premiere work promises to be dark, thrilling, and explosive, unearthing hidden histories in a larger-than-life theatrical style that has become synonymous with the work of Bare Witness Theatre Company.

Carroll’s drama about the dark arts of marketing behind climate denial, Smokescreen, was the inaugural Q The Locals production in 2022, touring to fortyfivedownstairs in Melbourne in 2025.

The writing of Crims has been funded by the CAPO fellowship.