An intimate new work about the choice to be childfree and the enduring power of female friendship

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I don’t know. I’ll sleep more. I like to sleep in. I’d like to do that more. I like to wake up without an alarm or a baby crying. I like realising it’s Saturday and I can do whatever I want.

Best friends Jo and Lia fell out years ago when Lia started dating Jo’s ex, Simon. Now a decade and many failed IVF rounds later, Lia and Simon decide to try one final drastic attempt at parenthood by asking happily childfree Jo to donate her eggs to them. What’s Yours captures the fallout of this simple but impossibly complicated request. 

Funny, messy, heart-breaking and hopeful, What’s Yours offers new and unique insight to the growing childfree-by-choice movement, celebrating the enduring power of women’s friendship and lives lived on their own terms.

AWARDS
Short-listed, Max Afford Playwrights Award, 2022
Long-listed, Griffin Award, 2023

First presented by Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre
26 July – 24 August 2025

CREDITS
Director: Isabella Vadiveloo
Set & Costume Designer: Bianca Pardo
Lighting Designer: Rachel Lee
Sound Design & Composition: Ethan Hunter & Grace Ferguson
Assistant Director: Roisin Wallace Nash
Cast: Christina O’Neill, Kevin Hofbauer, Carissa Lee

REVIEWS
4 stars. What’s Yours is an honest and unflinching portrayal of complicated relationships … Keziah Warner is fast becoming one of Melbourne’s most exciting theatre voices.
Australian Book Review

4 stars. What’s Yours is a meditation on power, desire, mortality, the ethics of friendship, the limits of possession, and the enduring legacy of the choices we make … Something altogether fresh and new.
The Age

4 stars. Topical, controversial, raw and immersive … What’s Yours is the latest proof that Australia’s playwrights are the best in the world.
Theatre Travels

What’s Yours takes a complex and complicated personal situation and turns up the heat. It’s knotty and messy. It’s funny and it hurts.
Australian Arts Review

Compelling, dramatic, poignant.
The Blurb

IMAGES
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DEVELOPMENT
This script was commissioned by Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre through the INK Program.
What’s Yours was developed with Red Stitch from 2023-2024.
Actors involved in the development of this script were: Emily Goddard, Jing-Xuan Chan, Christina O’Neill, Darcy Kent, Brigid Gallacher, Kevin Hofbauer, Alice Qin and John Marc Desengano

A development draft was given a public reading at Headland Writers Festival, Tathra NSW on 28 October 2023
The reading cast were: Emily Goddard, Alice Qin, John Marc Desengano