Wipe the wee from the toilet seat and pick up your dirty undies, because your favourite nanny is back to teach all the little boys – and girls – a thing or two about running a prim and proper household.

Returning home from a two-year creative sabbatical in France and London, Australia’s Jessica Barton combines a spoonful of song, dance, clowning, and deep-cleaning to present a skanky and empowering Fringe comedy debut in Dirty Work.

Created in response to living with her 26 year-old boyfriend, his 18 year-old brother and their equal-in-size greyhound dog, what was promised to be an equal, job-shared household swiftly melted into a reflection of heteronormative 1950’s dynamics.

“I felt like a hot, useful and super capable mother-figure at first, then that novelty very quickly wore off,” Jessica says. 

Expect Julie Andrews meets a silent Fleabag in Dirty Work, playing 11-23 March at Courtyard of Curiosities and Arthur Artbar.

Book HERE