Much to do with Law, but more to do with Love

Winner of the 2025 Queer Playwriting Award

“I think the law is ghosting me?”

It’s alienating. It’s violent. It’s pretty much incomprehensible. For one queer lawyer, it’s the ultimate toxic lover.

In his award-winning lecture-performance, Danish Sheikh returns to the courtroom that broke his heart, and the play that healed it. Tracing a journey through colonial legacies that refuse to die, court transcripts that won’t let him move on, and a certain pop star who insists on the redemptive power of shaking it off, this charming and provocative show asks: what’s the point of loving the law when the law won’t love you back?

Directed by the genre-defying Vidya Rajan (Crisis Actor, Arts House), with design by Asha Barr (Running into the Sun, Melbourne Fringe Theatre Award winner 2024) and dramaturgical consultancy by Gabrielle Fallen (Mature Skin, MTC Cybec Electric 2024), Much to do with Law, but More to do with Love brings together a powerhouse creative team known for blending form, theory and feeling with rare precision.

Supported by Gasworks Arts Park and Aphids' Odyssey Odyssey program.