# Fourteen

**Featured** — On Your Markus  
**Published:** 25 March 2024  
**Author:** Markus Hamence  
**Source:** https://onyourmarkus.au/fourteen/

Shake & Stir Theatre Co and Adelaide Festival Centre presents Fourteen by Shannon Molloy The year is 1999 and Shannon has a secret.  Shannon Molloy is a year 9 student at an all-boys rugby-mad Catholic school in regional Queensland, with a secret that no one can ever find out. Shannon is gay.  Based on the…

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Shake & Stir Theatre Co and Adelaide Festival Centre presents Fourteen by Shannon Molloy

The year is 1999 and Shannon has a secret. 

![Two performers face each other on a blue-lit stage set with illuminated panels and spotlights overhead.](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/originals/7320/Fourteen-DF-Mitchell-Bourke-Conor-Leach-.jpg)

Shannon Molloy is a year 9 student at an all-boys rugby-mad Catholic school in regional Queensland, with a secret that no one can ever find out. Shannon is gay. 

Based on the best-selling memoir by award-winning journalist Shannon Molloy, Fourteen is the inspirational true story of growing up gay in central Queensland, transformed into a powerful must-see theatre production by nationally acclaimed **Shake & Stir Theatre Co**. 

This moving coming-of-age memoir about adversity and tragedy is also a story of resilience, hope and hilarity – thanks to the love of a group of close-knit friends, a fiercely protective family, an extraordinary mother and… S Club 7. 

So press play on your discman, lose yourself in a pumping 90s pop remix and take a technicoloured trip back to your teens. This is Fourteen. 

![Performer in black blazer holds a decorated box on stage with blue lighting, gesturing expressively toward audience.](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/originals/7321/four.webp)