The Gonzo Hour
I recently had the joy of seeing Debbie Zukerman’s The Gonzo Hour as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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The Money
In an era heavy with self-publishing, from the selfie to the blogger influencer, from citizen journalism to reality TV, from political outsiders to plebiscites, we’ve rejected the elites and valorised the everywoman and everyman as earthy, connected and wise. Traditional arts and performance are challenged by the practically infinite stream of user-generated content, curated and hosted…
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Lilith: The Jungle Girl
Camp, trashtastic anachronism is the order of the day in Sisters Grimm’s Lilith: The Jungle Girl. Which is unsurprising on some level if you’ve ever seen a show from Declan Greene and Ash Flanders, or indeed just visited the company’s website. Blending the familiar colonial narrative tropes of taming-the-savage and classying-up-the-dame (TBH, pretty much the same story), and queering roles…
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Trailer: The Maze
Trailer shot for The Maze, an upcoming Melbourne Fringe Festival show written and directed by my partner, Kasey Gambling, and produced by The Honeytrap. The Maze takes a single audience member on a walking journey along night-time streets in North Melbourne, following an ‘ideal woman’ as she heads home from a bar. As she walks, the…
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Trailer: Real Piece of Work
A reel of video from a recent performance piece development, Real Piece of Work, by feminist theatre company The Honeytrap. Featuring performances by Debbie Zukerman and Kasey Gambling, directed by Jo Redfearn, and devised by all three women, Real Piece of Work explores a dystopian future and explores learned behaviours for woman, and what it means…
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Lottery
Lottery explores the old saying ‘be careful what you wish for…’ and shows a $9m division one lotto winnings split three ways, and into three acts. Each act follows the story of one of the major winners, and what effect three million dollars has on their lives. They’re uniformly punishing results in a variety of settings.…