ThePenny-ToyMan
There is only one way through the squalid labyrinth of filthy lanes in London’s worst criminal rookery and that is in the secure company of Alphonse Cheese-Probert and Heapus Maximus. The men that know. The Laudanum Project.
“On the streets of Spitalfields the horror has now all but drained away but in 1884, the year of our Lord, the East End of London was, for a week or two, in the grip of something… infernal.”
So begins ‘The Penny-Toy Man’ the newest blood caked offering from the dark and fetid Laudanum Project. The snipes of the East End are vanishing and word is beginning to spread on street corners and in back alleys that perhaps kind old Albert Scratch is not all that he seems. In the slums, workhouses and sewers terrified Cockneys huddle against the chilled winds of pure evil as the blood begins to run in rivers and the gates of Hell slowly creak open.
Listing Information:
Venue: The Retreat Hotel, 226 Nicholson St Abbotsford. PH: 03 9417 2693
Date: 7th 0f March 2011
Time: 8pm.
Duration: Approx 60 minutes.
Tickets: $15.00 On the door on the night or online from
www.thelaudanumproject.com
Contact: Nick Ravenswood
e-mail: laudanumpro@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/pages/The-Laudanum-Project/154078744236
www.twitter.com/LaudanumProject
www.myspace.com/laudanumproject
A cross-media, pseudo-spiritual journey in search of The Truth.
6:30pm at the Next Wave Festival Club, Melbourne (for 7pm sharp space shuttle departure)
6 performances only
Wed 19 May – Fri 21 May 2010
Wed 26 May – Fri 28 May 2010
Marking the much-anticipated debut performance season of Melbourne artist collective Tape Projects, 100 Proofs the Earth is Not a Globe is a live art installation and guided performance that is part science project, part religious intervention. Meet at the 2010 Next Wave Festival Club where your journey begins; a space shuttle will ferry you to and from state-of-the-art research facilities in a galaxy not too far away.
This secular and spiritual space mission will launch on six nights only – will you be aboard?
100 Proofs Artists: Jessie Scott, Eugenia Lim, Zoe Scoglio, Michael Prior, Lee Anantawat, Cait Foran, Tanja Milbourne.
More Info:
http://tapeprojects.org/
http://2010.nextwave.org.au/
“I was looking for love and then I found love, but heaven knows I’m miserable now”
Written by ALEX BROUN
Directed by ROBERT CHUTER
Music Re-creation by SIMON POLINSKI & COLIN BERWICK
With MARK TAYLOR as William
William is a young man with three obsessions: very strong long blacks, pining for his lost Salome, and listening to The Smiths. He only exists to devour coffee, despise people and worship the patron saint of wrist-slashing Steven Patrick Morrissey.
Just like his idol, the world he occupies can be cruel and lonely. He stumbles from café to cemetery in search of a companion or even just a confidant. He runs headlong into Salome; the obstructive agent of seduction who slithers her way into his life, and entices his addictive personality. Meanwhile, the best friend, Rick, whom he takes for granted, is struggling with his desire for William while confronting his own mortality.
A dark and funny play set to the music of The Smiths, the music that gives William a chance to be more than just half a person.
Venue: Chapel Off Chapel, 12 Little Chapel St, Prahran, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Dates: Thursday 20 – Sunday 30 May 2010
Times: Wednesday-Saturday 8.00pm, Saturday matinees 2.00pm & Sunday 6.30pm Tickets: $28.00 [Full] & $24.00 [Concession] (+ transaction fee) Bookings: 8290 7000 or www.chapeloffchapel.com.au
Comedy gets the silent treatment again in 2010 as part of the Melbourne
International Comedy Festival, following the sell-out successes in 2008 and 2009. Enjoy the best in physical comedy in this unique show that shatters all language barriers.
Previously hosted by Adam Hills and Damian Callinan, Unspeakable has also featured the first ever Australian Deaf performers in the Festival – Asphyxia and Rob Roy, performing alongside stars such as The Birdmann, Sammy J & Heath McIvor and The Boy with Tape on His Face.
This year will see Justin McGinley (fresh from a world tour with Circus Oz), and Nadia Baradi – Melbourne’s first Deaf drag king – as ‘Kewl Rap’ performing music you can SEE, alongside 2009 Barry Award nominee, Asher Treleaven. The Frankston show will be hosted by Claire Hooper (Good News Week). Adam Hills (Spicks and Specks) will once again MC the Gasworks show, with a very special guest performer!
A wonderful, family-friendly show, suitable for people of all ages and comedy tastes. Produced by Erin Davidson with Gasworks Arts Park and Frankston Arts Centre, proudly supporting Vicdeaf creating arts opportunities for Deaf people.
“There should be less talk.” Mother Teresa
Bookings:
29th March – Frankston Arts Centre, Cnr Young & Davey Streets, Frankston (Victoria)
(03) 9784 1060, http://www.artscentre.frankston.vic.gov.au/, or at the door
12th April – Gasworks Arts Park, 21 Graham Street, Albert Park (Victoria)
(03) 9699 3253, http://www.gasworks.org.au/, or at the door
$25.00 Adult, $15.00 Concession, $10.00 Children (under 16)
Both shows 7:30pm (90mins)
Katherine’s Strange Blessings for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Or how to put on a variety show with one person or less.
Katherine has experienced many strange blessings in her life. Her new show entitled Strange Blessings being amongst them.
Strange Blessings is the story of the Blessington Community Variety Show. Every year the citizens of this small town strut their stuff: the librarian reads her saucy poetry, the plumber shows off his skills at air guitar, and Lord Mayor Frank the Bunny-Eared Angel demonstrates that his toes are indeed twinkly, performing a dance number with the mistress of ceremonies. This year something special happens when two of the performers discover true love.
Katherine says, “As a child if an activity proved creative, I was in it boots and all. So the only job that seemed to ‘sensibly’ combine my interests in comedy, writing, singing, dancing, acting, and macaroni necklaces was creator of Broadway musicals. I studied playwriting at the University of Washington where one of my schoolmates was Kyle MacLachlan.”
Katherine’s first job out of uni was editor-in-chief for a computer game magazine. This job led her to become the author of Australia’s first Internet book for the average punter, Surf’s Up: Internet Australian Style. The book sold out in a week. The media dubbed her “Princess Internet”. The book then led to a PhD scholarship for studying storytelling for computer game design at RMIT. Later it was sung on Spicks and Specks.
Since 2006 she has been working on her skills as a stand-up comedian and TheatreSports
improvisational actor performing at such venues as The Rhino Room, Comix Comedy Cellar and The Grace Emily in South Australia, and Willow Bar in Victoria. She has even done some writing for Monkeystack Animation and Nickelodeon. “I’m back doing theatre, but now I have the technological know how to do it myself using multimedia. Blessings don’t come much stranger than this.”
Strange Blessings is a one person show making use of soft toys, balloons, and audience
participation to bring quirky and endearing characters to life. It will be on throughout the Melbourne International Comedy Festival at POP Upstairs, 68 Hardware Lane, Melbourne CBD, 24 March–17 April 6-7pm Tues-Sat.
Tickets through Ticketmaster outlets or call 1300 66 00 13, Comedyfestival.com.au.
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