Sadly, a decade and a half into the twenty first century, many people think that same sex marriage and children bred and born to such unions – gaybies – are akin to scabies and rabies.

Dean Bryant’s verbatim theatre, GAYBIES, picks away at the prejudice by producing a jamboree show, literally out of the mouths of Gaybies.

Set in a school hall complete with piano, red curtain and proscenium arch, seven performers present twenty-one characters each with a story to tell about being the child of homosexual parents.

The play has a pedestrian beginning, with the actors ambling onto the stage in their own good time and taking a seat, lining up as if in a meeting of Gaybies Anonymous.

That anonymity doesn’t last long as each character cantilevers their story with those of the others.

It’s relaxed, conversational with undertones of confessional, and a common humanity is forged between players and audience through the use of humour.

There are musical interludes and a scene with all the performers playing infant school kids.

The ensemble of Cooper George Amai, Sheridan Harbridge, Rhys Keir, Steve Le Marquand, Zindzi Okenyo, Olivia Rose and Georgia Scott are energetic, effusive, and effervescent.

GAYBIES is an entertaining feel good piece that zeros in on the zeitgeist of the zipless zygote and the irony of conservative social forces denying the quaint, conservative notion of matrimony to same sex couples.

GAYBIES plays til March 8 at the Eternity Playhouse, 39 Burton Street, Darlinghurst.