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Saturday, 22 February 2025

Never Have I Ever review | Melbourne Theatre Company

Faced with shutting down their restaurant and an inevitable bankruptcy claim looming, Jacq and Kas invite their friends / investors Tobin and Adaego, for dinner to break the news to them, and potentially seek a second lifeline. But in Never Have I Ever, things don't go according to plan and soon enough the four are drunk and high, and conversations and challenges around sexism, racism, misogyny and classism begin to rear their ugly heads.

Chika Ikogwe is utterly brilliant as Adaego, who as well as being an upper class black journalist is also a self proclaimed activist for women in business. Ikogwe is paired up perfectly with Simon Gleeson as her exceptionally wealthy and pompous husband Tobin who despite being thinly written, is given adequate layers by Gleeson's performance that keep him interesting. The highlights of the show are when these two are going at each other, with both finding the comedy and the truth of their characters in an extremely convincing way.