RUMBLESKIN

fortyfive downstairs, 2025

Supported by City of Melbourne

Wanna know what it feels like? When it happens? First you feel a rumble…

A trucker picks up a pregnant teen on a long stretch of nowhere. A young rodeo rider stumbles into a mysterious ranch. A fugitive comes to a cursed town in search of safety. An affliction known as the RUMBLESKIN is stretching itself across the country.

No one knows how it began, but everyone has a story about it.

RUMBLESKIN is a new queer western folk tale exploring transformation in a strange and dangerous land.

Writer: Ames May Nunn

Director: Alonso Pineda

Dramaturg: Mark Pritchard

Producer & Production Manager: Seamus Allan

Set & Costume Designer: Sam Diamond

Associate Designer: Leonie Leonida

Design Assistant: Maisie-Mae Minors

Lighting Designer: Giovanna Yate Gonzalez

Composer: Jacob Diamond

Sound Technician: Kevan Atkins

Photographer: Laura May Grogan

Graphic Designer: Louis Green

Casting Consultant: Rhys Velasquez

WITH

Cassidy Dunn, Luke Wiltshire, Michelle Perera, Sunanda Sachatrakul, Ziggy Resnick

Fortyfive Downstairs
45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

Thursday 17 July – Sunday 27 July 2025

★★★★ - ArtsHub

“An extraordinary show.” - Australian Arts Review

“A wonderfully suspenseful and intriguing one act play. The audience is in good hands with Nunn and Pineda.” - ArtsHub

"A bold and ambitious work.” - My Melbourne Arts

"Storytelling at it’s finest.” - HEAVY Cinema

“A sly and fascinating reinvention of the myth of the American West.” - Theatre First

“I crave more theatre like Rumbleskin.” - LIMELIGHT

"The five actors do a superb job. Each more potent than the next. They are dynamic and uncompromising.” - I TELL YOU WHAT I THINK

"There’s always something that draws the eye, a thoughtful detail that makes Rumbleskin’s world feel lived in, as if it extends beyond the four walls of the fourtyfive downstairs theatre."
- ArtsHub