Em Rusciano: Outgrown Tour, playing at the Canberra Theatre Centre on 17 August 2024. Image: Canberra Theatre Centre
EM RUSCIANO IS BACK with a brand-new live experience and her first big national tour since her wildly successful Rage and Rainbows show in 2019, and look yes, she is still angry, but now she knows why.
Em Rusciano in conjunction with Frontier Touring presents Outgrown.
Em Rusciano says, “The last five years have been brutal, beautiful and bonkers. They challenged everything I ever believed about myself to my core. Not to be dramatic, but the term “complete ego death” wouldn’t be out of place here. I’m finally limping out the other side of it now with way less oestrogen, and as a newly crowned neuro-divergent double threat. So naturally it felt like the right time to get myself back on stage. You can look forward to a multi-sensory exploration and examination of the beauty that can emerge after everything has been burned to the ground. And of course elaborate costumes, novelty sized props and me workshopping my trauma via an over the top all out musical comedy extravaganza.”
Since last you met, Em was given the surprise diagnostic trifecta of… ADHD, Autism and (behind door number three) early menopause! Any one of these revelations would rock most people to their core, but Em’s always been a show off, so of course she had to win at diagnosis Yahtzee.
Once she picked herself up off the ground (it took one to two business working years) she set about exploring what all of this meant, and along the way delivered a powerful speech about finding out she was neuro-divergent, at the National Press Club of Australia.
Outgrown is a hilarious, searing and multi-sensory look at the beauty that can emerge, after everything has been burned to the ground.
The details
What: Em Rusciano: Outgrown Tour
When: Saturday 17th August 2024 at 8pm
Where: Canberra Theatre Centre, Civic Square, London Cct, Canberra ACT 2601
Cost: $49.90–$149.90 plus transaction fee. Tickets available from Canberra Theatre Centre.
