"They’re kids, they think that everything
is great and they don’t realise how much
the world can f**k you up."

Year 11. Formal's approaching, everyone knows WAY too much about everyone, labels apparently matter now? Oh, and Ellen DeGeneres, I guess. But seriously... has anyone *really* ever figured out their life in high school?

PAANDA presents: Dumb Kids. In the Prindiville Theatre. Mid-late November 2026.

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Dumb Kids is a contemporary queer commentary on Wedekind’s Spring Awakening, asking why do we always tell queer kids it’ll get better but never that it’ll get good. Set over the course of a year it follows a group of ten Australian school students planning their year eleven formal and their intermixing journeys of discovering their sexualities, gender and how to grow up in a world where everyone seems to have already figured it out.

Raucously funny and unflinching, Dumb Kids is a celebration of community, friendship and identity.