Imagine! Julia Gillard and Julie Bishop putting aside their political differences to take bloody revenge — with an axe, a sledgehammer and a vial of poison — on the red and blue-tied men who ruined their dreams and banished them to the wilderness. That’s the plot of Gone Girls, a “drag revenge fantasy” that opened on Tuesday night at the Adelaide Fringe. Starring Patrick Livesey as Gillard (Australia’s first female prime minister and first female Labor leader) and Annabel Larcombe as Bishop (the first woman to formally stand for the Liberal leadership, the party’s first female deputy leader and Australia’s first female foreign minister), the comedy starts in 1998 when both were first elected to parliament. Livesey says he was frustrated by the greater hurdles the pair faced because of their ovaries. “Definitely with Julia Gillard, the only impression people have of her is this almost grotesque version that we were spoonfed when she was prime minister,” Livesey told the Advertiser. “The big undercurrent is how female power is presented in the media and the way it is pigeonholed, in contrast to male power. ” The show comes with this warning: “Contains strong coarse language, both sudden and sustained loud noises, some infrequent/low pressure audience interaction, potentially triggering content or themes, including staged violence, sexual references, death, murder, simulated blood, use of replica weapons”. Sign us up.