business - 2026-07-03

Former Pittwater High student Rob Carlton to bring Virgin in a Knife Fight to Glen Street Theatre

Source: www.northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au

Actor and writer Rob Carlton will return to the Northern Beaches next month when Virgin in a Knife Fight plays two nights at Glen Street Theatre in Belrose, giving local audiences a chance to see a performer with long-standing ties to the area on one of its main stages.

Actor and writer Rob Carlton will return to the Northern Beaches next month when Virgin in a Knife Fight plays two nights at Glen Street Theatre in Belrose, giving local audiences a chance to see a performer with long-standing ties to the area on one of its main stages. Carlton attended Pittwater High and played for the Narrabeen Tigers Rugby and Collaroy Plateau Cricket clubs during his younger years on the beaches. That local connection is central to the appeal of the run, which brings him back to perform in front of a home-area audience rather than simply as another touring act. The show is built around four true stories, each centred on a moment of reckoning in Carlton's life. According to the production details, the material moves from an encounter in the backstreets of Salzburg, where an 18-year-old Carlton finds himself caught in a three-person knife fight, through university mishaps, a courtroom episode on the Northern Beaches and a later story about fatherhood and friendship. That structure places the production somewhere between memoir and solo theatre. Rather than relying on a large cast or elaborate staging, the performance is driven by Carlton's storytelling, timing...