UNIMA Australia is proud to share the final report from our 2025 Ross & Rose Hill Scholarship recipient, Duckie L’Orange, who used the grant to create Clitosaurus — a feminist comedy cabaret work developed and premiered in Berlin. Below is a summary – you can download the full report with photos, videos and sketches here.
Duckie L’Orange at the Sydney Opera House
About Duckie
Duckie L’Orange is an Australian artist based in Europe who blends puppetry with clowning and drag to make bold, funny work for adults and children alike. Her work has toured across Australia, Germany, Europe, the UAE, India, Timor-Leste, Indonesia and the US, for clients including Deutsche Telekom, Samsung and Universal’s Jurassic World, and on stages from the Sydney Opera House to the Royal Danish Theatre. (More at duckielorange.com)
The idea
The project set out to tackle a subject Duckie felt was strangely under-explored in puppetry: the clitoris. Despite being a well-known organ, its actual anatomy is rarely taught or depicted. Clitosaurus takes this on through a feminist, comedic lens, casting the clitoris as a giant, city-destroying kaiju monster in the tradition of Godzilla and King Kong — creatures that are less “evil” than deeply misunderstood, lashing out after human interference with their natural state, with a nod too to the bouffon clowning tradition of the misunderstood outcast. The project began with a song, co-produced with fellow Australian artist Bogan Mongrel — the phrase “Clitosaurus” grew out of that collaboration and shaped the storyline from there.
Construction in progress – watch progress video here
Bringing in Alli Sebastian Wolf
To design and build the puppet and costume, Duckie commissioned Sydney-based maker Alli Sebastian Wolf — a natural fit, given Alli previously created The Glitoris, a viral gold anatomical clitoris sculpture that made international headlines. The brief covered both a full-body puppet/costume and a smaller companion hand-puppet, with tricky practical requirements: light, safe on the neck and back, good visibility, hands free, walkable, packable into a suitcase, durable. The solution: a costume built around a jumpsuit and jacket base, inflatable “dolphins” tucked into internal pockets for volume and smoothed with wadding, and a cap-mounted head kept smaller than anatomical scale for practicality.
Development and premiere
Clitosaurus rehearsal
Duckie and Alli spent several studio sessions devising the piece, first exploring how the body puppet naturally moved, then layering in a storyline: a hunter (Alli) encounters and captures a small clitoris, which grows into a towering, threatening creature (Duckie in the full body puppet) that rampages through a miniature cardboard city — until it’s eventually calmed through love.
Clitosaurus had its first outing at Silent Night Cabaret, Theaterpool Berlin in May 2026, a sold-out night of non-verbal physical theatre, performed as a duo with Alli. It landed brilliantly — plenty of enthusiastic, unsolicited feedback, and animated post-show discussion in the foyer about just what audiences had seen.
A second, reworked version — a tight three-minute piece framed as a Eurovision entry, with Duckie singing and Alli entering as the clitoris — was performed soon after at the queer club night Party Dyke’s Eurovision at Crack Bellmer, to an equally electric response.
What’s next
Duckie is now developing a solo version of Clitosaurus she can perform without Alli, aiming for a tight ~10-minute cabaret piece, and is also exploring whether the character could work as a roving/hosting act for events.
In her own words: “This has been a great (ongoing) opportunity to showcase Australian puppetry internationally… I had the concept for years but due to the high cost of construction and development, this simply would not have been made without the support of UNIMA & the Hill family.”
Design & development: Duckie L’Orange & Alli Sebastian Wolf
Construction: Alli Sebastian Wolf
Sound & song composition: Bogan Mongrel
Vocals: Duckie L’Orange
Clitosaurus at the Berlin Dom square
📄 You can download Duckie’s full report — including design sketches, construction photos, rehearsal shots and the full budget breakdown — here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10bb_iw0RSQtF5lhnsgJX70s2N3ADohsH/view?usp=sharing