Millie yearns for love and acceptance, finding instead rejection and humiliation at every turn… except from her sad, soft old grandfather, and her best friend Annie.

She shapes her loyalty to Annie into a bond that burns hotter than any romantic furnace. Life sends them on different paths, but when Annie turns up bruised and bloodied on the doorstep, Millie sets out to honour her childhood friend in the only way she knows how: revenge.

kerosene is a homage to the blind loyalty that accompanies lifelong friendships and the realities of what it means to grow up young, quiet and forgotten in modern day Australia.

Following her award-winning performance in The Almighty Sometimes, breakout emerging actor Winsome Ogilvie reunites with director Lachlan Houen to present a blistering and honest portrayal of love, loneliness and obsession in the suburbs – in the play's first staging outside of Melbourne.

"theatre at its most stripped back and its most potent" - Theatre First

"Nichol builds a world that is dense and rich with life" - Australian Arts Review

★★★★ The Age ★★★★ Time Out ★★★★★ Theatre Matters