Sometimes It's Hot Like The Sun | Imperfect Creatives
I found in the performance and the deeper reading the play later, a refreshing candour for ugliness. The mother who does not particularly like her kids and is somewhat resigned to such a poor choice made some time before. The lack of self-awareness that occurs when an adult berates a tiny child for social transgressions of which it can scarcely be aware. A wistfulness for an imagined life that was never really pursed with any commitment.
Comedy Course Showcase, June 2021 | The Humour Experiment
As MC Dorothy May (founder of The Humour Experiment) said in her welcome address, tonight was all about stand-up tragedy and boy did the performers deliver. From toilet analogies to discussions to the social lubricant of alcohol to bad santa stories, there was no waiting at the door for the jokes at the Humour Experiment’s Comedy Course Showcase.
Corpus Null | AXIS
Corpus Null opened strong. A lone walker approached the audience, slow, barely moving at all. One by one, bodies emerged, running in figure eights, crashing into the walker’s line of sight, as if hit by an electric shock over and over again. It conjured up images of the daily grind, being lost among the chaos of the unrelenting rat race. I was distressed and captivated.
Explore the search for connection, the beauty of vulnerability, and the awkwardness of first dates while laughing yourself silly
[Plucked] began with a casual conversation about how there were limited opportunities to play LGBTIQ+ roles. We started joking about writing our own. A few weeks later she’d written an awesome script, was accepted into the Anywhere Festival and before I knew it, I was knee deep in a gay rom-com.
Corpus Null explores the positioning of the body within capitalism as both its function and its evasion.
Corpus Null is a performance work that inhabits the intensity between the desiring and desired. Inspired by Deleuze and Guattari’s concept Body Without Organs, this work of butoh dance theatre reflects on the positioning of the body within capitalism as both its function and its evasion. This tension is mirrored in cycles of symbiotic genesis and extinction and attempts to exist between becoming and undoing, in the void of unattainable desire.
"I went searching for snippets of inspiration in old articles on the terrors of youth" - Iley Jones on creating 'Good Talk'
Good Talk is a 40 minute two-hander revolving around high school sweethearts Jiā lǐ and Erin. While avoiding the realities of their deteriorating relationship they return to their hometown for their high school reunion. Upon arrival they find themselves alone with their thoughts and feelings, listening to each other and finding the cracks in their 10-year relationship. What was thought to be safely secured and locked in, is now exposed and left raw.
Two absolute idiot characters bring-their-own pageant all over Australia, performing wherever they can
Beauty queen Victoria Beauvoir and her lifelong devotee Roger Seahorse are on a mission to bring children’s beauty pageants to every Australian town. The Beryls present this narratively driven, immersive sketch show that casts the audience as contestants and pushy showbiz parents as they satirise the pageant world. Leave your name, age and gender identity at the door because The Pageant is a world unto itself.
This show is for anyone who has loved, has lost, who has made a mistake, who has simply lived
Taking place over three years in fictional Brisbane pub, His Majesty’s, this play follows a blossoming new relationship, a young woman who struggles with addiction and a young man who finds himself suffering from a terminal illness. This play deals with love, loss and how we deal with these emotions.
"One person’s loneliness is symptomatic of everyone’s problem." - Christopher Bryant on award-winning show, 'Intoxication'
Intoxication is a post-dramatic patchwork about queer millennial anxiety exploring how the intense fear of being alone rules modern society, and how one person’s loneliness is symptomatic of everyone’s problem.
'Mental Illness Is Not A Crime' - a live art performance of ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian responses) experiences
'Mental Illness Is Not A Crime' is a one-hour immersive, interactive, and live art performance of ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian responses) experiences. With body painting, letter writing, hair brushing, as well as interaction with textures, foods, and scents, and ending with guided meditation, the show is an extension of a previous show with Vulcana Circus and Ruckus Brisbane. Inspired by artists Carolee Schneeman and Marina Abramovic, 'Mental Illness Is Not A Crime' aims to break down barriers between our mental and physical selves, and allow us to reconnect with others through immersion and touch.