'The Martyrs' is an absurd, pitch-black comedy about the violent collision of faith and sexuality. A large Adult Convention has just rolled into Melbourne and a local Mega-church ministry, ‘Earthquakers’, has taken to the streets to denounce the evils of pornography. A charismatic youth pastor, Mike Foster, is on the case. He’s hitting television talk shows, the internet and the pulpit with a force that the media are calling a ‘Crusade’ on smut.

'The Martyrs' is an absurd, pitch-black comedy about the violent collision of faith and sexuality. A large Adult Convention has just rolled into Melbourne and a local Mega-church ministry, ‘Earthquakers’, has taken to the streets to denounce the evils of pornography. A charismatic youth pastor, Mike Foster, is on the case. He’s hitting television talk shows, the internet and the pulpit with a force that the media are calling a ‘Crusade’ on smut.

After the success of its first production, Lawyers and other Communicable Diseases, the not-for-profit group Showroom Theatre is proud to announce auditions for the first play of its 2013 season - the original comedy/drama Wedlock, to be performed in the Subiaco Arts Centre Studio from the 14th to the 18th of May. The synopsis: