How many times can you build a Duplo tower only to watch someone else's kid kick it down?

Meet Bronte. She’s 23, back in Brisbane after her entire life unravelled at the base of a Brunswick gum tree. In a desperate attempt to find some semblance of normalcy, she takes another crack at her high school babysitting job for the Friggett family. But the three children she waved goodbye to at 18 are now entirely different beasts.

The pre-teen daughter mists herself hourly with Impulse: Self-Loathing, while the boys she once toilet-trained now defiantly piss at her feet. She is no longer “Bronte.” She is: “NOT MY MUM!”

"Hand Foot in Mouth" is a raucous, raw one-woman show and live DJ set.

You can't put an hourly price on love and care... or can you?

Presenting Artist or Company

The Writer and Actor: Bronte Locke is a babysitter, actor and writer. Her screen credits include: Stan’s “Bad Behaviour” and NBC’s “La Brea” (additional voices). She’s an ATYP National Studio alumnus published by Currency Press and was selected for Trent Dalton’s Write Your Heart Out program (with “Rock Pool Visualisations” published in the Love Stories Anthology).
The Director: Barney Pollock is an actor, improvisor and comedian. He is an ensemble performer in Working Dog’s and Channel Ten’s “Thank God You’re Here” and ABC Comedy’s “White Fever”. Barney was nominated for Best Newcomer at MICF 2026.