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OK, so yeah, I get it. There are well over 400 shows in the Fringe this year. I guess you probably might not be able to afford every show that you want to see. Well never you fear, son, we’re giving away tickets to loads of shows during the festival. Keep your eyes peeled for the ‘Win tickets to this show at beat.com.au’ notes within the guide and then head to our website to win tickets to see these wonderful shows:
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Fringe Film: Digital Creatures Fringe Furniture: Living Traces Uncommon Places
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This Can’t End Well A Hard Day’s Night of Beatles Parodies The Sound of The Nazis Arj Barker: Keeper or Crapper Kim Kardashian is Bad For The Environment
This Can’t End Well, A Hard Day’s Night of Beatles Parodies, The Sound of The Nazis, Arj Barker: Keeper or Crapper, Kim Kardashian is Bad For The Environment, Show Stopper, Karl Redgen: Rapid Fire, Plan B, Twisted Tales For The Cynical Viewer, The Shuffle Show: A Playlist of Playlists Highly Flammable Love, Space Orchestra Plays To Bugs Bunny Cartoons, Placebo, Point & Shoot: A New Musical, Die Roten Punkte: Eurosmash!, Miss Fletcher Sings the Blues, The Marionettes: Album Launch, Through the Looping Glass, Old Melbourne Ghost Tour, The Explorers Club: Antarctica, Awkward Conversations with Animals I’ve Fucked and Reasons To Be Pretty.
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Show Stopper Karl Redgen: Rapid Fire Plan B Righteous: Rights at the Round Table Twisted Tales For The Cynical Viewer
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This year the Melbourne Fringe Festival turns 32. Yep, it’s been 32 years since the Melbourne Fringe Festival was first established way back in 1982 following the closing of the legendary Pram Factory in Carlton. And my word, hasn’t she grown up beautifully.
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With over 5,000 artists from Victoria and Australia’s diverse arts scene, featuring over 400 individual shows over 19 days in hundreds of venues across the city, the 2014 Melbourne Fringe Festival is set to be the biggest ever.
The Shuffle Show: A Playlist of Playlists Highly Flammable Love Space Orchestra Plays To Bugs Bunny Cartoons Placebo Point & Shoot: A New Musical
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Focus On: The Owl and the Pussy Cat
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Focus On: After Dark Theatre
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Die Roten Punkte: Eurosmash! Glasfrosch & Friends Play In C Miss Fletcher Sings the Blues The Marionettes: Album Launch Pete Reid: Songs From The Edge Of The World Through the Looping Glass
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Old Melbourne Ghost Tour The Explorers Club: Antarctica Awkward Conversations with Animals I’ve Fucked Reasons To Be Pretty MKA: Richard II
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The 2014 program will see the return of Fringe Festival favourites such as Arj Barker, Rod Quantock, Finucane & Smith and Die Roten Punkte, alongside a slew of emerging, established and exciting artists spanning a range of artforms, including comedy, music, theatre, circus, dance, design and visual art. There are the usual highlights, such as the beloved Fringe Furniture program and the return of Fringe Film: Digital Creatures, but there are also new and exciting additions - such as the Uncommon Places program which explores the concept of the ‘Third Place’ - a place where people gather, converse, catch up and hang out. But to try and further simplify the program would be vastly underselling it – there’s so much for you to see, enjoy, explore and engage with this Fringe. Have a flick through our guide, read about the wonderful shows on offer and go and support some of the finest independent artists in the world.
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FRINGE FILM: DIGITAL CREATURES
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Melinda Smith is an extraordinary woman. She has cerebral palsy and is mostly confined to a wheel chair, but that’s only a small part of her story. She’s also a successful visual artist, a consultant for children with cerebral palsy, she tests augmentative technology and she’s a dancer. Dancer and choreographer Dianne Reid met Smith when she was called in to choreograph some scenes for a play in which Smith was the lead. The scenes involved childbirth and lovemaking. “It occurred to me that if Mel was going to do those things, she’d need to be out of the wheelchair,” Reid recalls. “I asked her ‘can you do that?’ and in response she made this slow descent to the floor. There was such virtuosity and intensity involved in coordinating the movement. I can remember watching and then saying to her ‘that’s your dance’.”
Subsequently, Reid mentored Smith under a grant and since then they have practiced together on average for three hours a week since. “Recently Mel told me that she always felt like she was a dancer and now she describes herself as one working with cerebral palsy,” Reid reveals. Reid’s short film Beautiful Day documents the process of Smith dancing for the first time out of her chair and it’s just one of the remarkable films featuring in this year’s Digital Creatures, the Fringe Festival’s showcase of short films, animation and digital art.
To say that the films are diverse is an understatement. Fringe Producer for the Creative Program Aneke McCulloch agrees. “There are probably six different types of animation alone - there’s even a film clip from a band called Quintessential Dolls. It’s really exciting - it’s Digital Creatures second year and we’ve almost doubled the size of the program. I’m really looking forward to seeing how this continues to grow in the future and hearing this year’s feedback. It’s definitely worth making the trip.” Digital Creatures screens in the Dining Hall at the Little Creatures Brewery from 6pm every night and there’ll be information about each entry " so you can enjoy a brew and a flick at the same time. The movies run silently, but if you’re after sound you can borrow headphones from the bar staff. Weevil
FRINGE FURNITURE: LIVING TRACES By Meg Crawford
Apparently Bruce Filley, the artist brainchild behind Fringe Furniture, said that “the furniture in Fringe #1 was pretty ordinary, but the act of assembling and exhibiting captured people’s imagination and, for better or worse, it encouraged any number of people ‘to have a go’ at furniture.” It’s not the world’s most flattering description, but things have come a long way, baby. Fringe Furniture now holds an illustrious place in the Australian design landscape. “The quality and caliber of design at Fringe Furniture is certainly very high,” reflects Fringe Producer for the Creative Program Aneke McCulloch. “It’s a combination of things. The general reputation of design is different now " it’s something that is really well respected and we make more of a connection with it than we used to. The
reputation of Fringe Furniture has built too " it’s been running for nearly as long as the Fringe and on the circuit of design events this one is really important. We’ve already had some interest from commercial buyers asking to know who’s in it this year. So, it’s got a reputation for marketable quality as well as more artistic experimentation. I’ve looked at what’s in this year and everything is excellent " all killer, no filler.”
UNCOMMON PLACES By Augustus Welby
Here in Melbourne we’re certainly not short on places that facilitate communal interaction. In fact, something that makes the city so addictive is its plethora of inviting social settings and seemingly incessant roll-out of intriguing cultural activities. One of the key attractions of this year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival is the Uncommon Places program, which will essentially put the spotlight on this aspect of life in Melbourne. “It’s a celebration of the way that most Melburnians are really happy to embrace something a bit different, and certainly happy to embrace something that celebrates the best of our city,” says Fringe Producer for the Creative Program Aneke McCulloch. Uncommon Places will utilise ten locations across the city to illuminate the notion of the ‘Third Place’ " somewhere that people come together outside the home or the page 6
workplace. Perhaps the most obvious social hang-outs are cafes and bars. These sorts of settings are indeed accounted for, but the program also encompasses a tram stop, the city’s two major libraries, a public pool, a cinema and a bookshop. “There’s a lot of different versions of what the ‘Third Place’ might be,“ McCulloch says. “Bars and cafes, usually it’s more with groups of friends or like-minded people. Other
Now in its 29th year, McCulloch has some thoughts about Fringe Furniture’s longevity and ongoing popularity. “I think it has to be linked to the idea that as art appreciators we are connecting more and more with design as an artistic form. It’s also an excellent platform for not only furniture, but also object designers " lighting features heavily too. It’s also a place for established designers to try new and experimental design as well as somewhere for emerging designers, people who are just out of uni or starting out to exhibit their work.” Every year has a theme and this year’s works are guided by the concept of ‘Living Traces’. The idea is that everything we create becomes a record of our history and at the same time provides a map for how things will continue to unfold " it’s also a bit self-reflective. “Design
Emily Dalkin at the City Baths places like libraries and tram stops and public places, there’s a bigger variety of people that are there for all sorts of different reasons.” Uncommon Places isn’t simply an exposition of the variety of third places to be found around Melbourne. Rather, the Fringe has commissioned ten artists to add a unique spin to the existing sites. After impressing the program curators, each artist " whose specialties range from visual art and design to film and theatre-making and literary arts " were encouraged to apply their own personality to the appointed site. “They were pretty much given free rein, just as long as they were responding to that theme of the third place,” McCulloch says. “The process for most of the artists involved visiting the sites and spending time there and
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It’s this laid-back environment which in part drew Reid to the idea of exhibiting in Digital Creatures. “I like the idea that people are relaxing and the film comes to them,” Reid explains. “It also means that people who wouldn’t necessarily see the film otherwise will get the opportunity to watch it.” Reid and Smith are also performing a 50-minute show called Unbecoming during this year’s Fringe, so Digital Creatures serves a dual role. “It’s a bit like a short for a main feature elsewhere,” laughs Reid. The prizes are awesome too. Judged by a panel of Fringe, MIFF and Little Creatures reps, the winning entry scores a cash prize and will be screened again in the Little Creatures Dining Hall come summer. “At the moment, any entry is on rotation amidst 21 films,” McCulloch explains. “The winner of that prize will receive more of a feature screening season.” Beer, food and film is definitely a winning combo. “The feedback from last year’s Digital Creatures was good,” says McCulloch. “For a lot of people, it was interesting and unexpected, particularly if they were walk-ins. Other people who heard about it through our program made the trip specifically and got to enjoy some food and beer while they watched the film.” Get your art on with a beer " why wouldn’t you?
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reflects society and the way we change is reflected in design,” McCulloch muses. “There’s the idea too that furniture and design evolve around social trends. Each year the cutting edge of design is evolving, as much as the artists and audiences are. There are a lot of pieces that respond to the idea, for instance a chair that was once a tree, and you can see elements of natural shapes in some of the works. Basically, anything that you’re using for manufacture was once something else.” Don’t go expecting anything staid either. “You don’t go to Fringe Furniture to see an old idea, but you can certainly go to see classic ideas,” McCulloch explains. “It’s about the future of design as well as those quality aspects that stay with us. There’s new and emerging designers making work that’s unlike anything you’ve seen and then we’ve got some really classic pieces from designers who have been around for many years and are making more traditional works with an artisan approach. Those qualities of classic design, you can really see how they stick with us and then you can look at the newer works with curiosity about which of those new design elements will become the future classics. I suppose that’s one of the appeals of Fringe in general - you’ve got an opportunity as an audience member to go and see what could be a future classic or a show by a new performer who may in 10 years time be a big international star.”
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FRINGE FURNITURE: LIVING TRACES will be on display at the Abbotsford Convent throughout the festival from Wednesday - Sunday, 11am - 5pm. Admission is free, visit melbournefringe.com.au for more information.
talking to people that usually use those sites and visit those sites. “We’ve got an artist making some work at the Flagstaff Bowls and he spent a lot of time engaging with their members and hearing their stories. It will be really exciting to see their regular users interact and respond to the pieces.” Yes, generally speaking, each of the featured settings attracts or suits a specific audience. But McCulloch says that this program makes a visiting all ten locations worthwhile for any culturally hungry folks. “A large point of it is that there’ll be something a bit different to what’s the usual. So if you’re not someone who usually goes to one of the city libraries, it’s a perfect opportunity to have a look at the space with something new in it that’s going to help share the story of what that space is usually like. It’ll be an excellent opportunity for people to learn a bit more about a space they don’t usually hang out in.” The Uncommon Places map can be viewed on the Fringe Festival website right now and the works will be open for public viewing for the entirety of the festival. OK, so city pride and cultural education is all well and good, but where can we go to grab a drink and talk a whole lot of pontificating bollocks? “We’ve done a little bit of a circuit that you can follow around the city, ending up at The Warren, which is at the Fringe Club at the North Melbourne Town Hall. That’s the perfect end to the circuit because it’s open late into the night.”
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This Can’t End Well is hardly the most hopeful title for a show, but writer/performer/ improviser/self-proclaimed “nut-job” David Innes reckons his Fringe Festival debut is quirky and humorous enough to belie its name. “It’s three stories intertwined,” Innes explains. “Three characters are coming out, looking for love or coping with depression.” Innes will perform the three characters himself. Are any of them close to home? “Jonathan Canterbury, the lonely little nerd is most like me,” Innes admits. “He is a parallel universe version of me, if the universe had dealt me a different set of cards.” (This interviewer heard ‘if the universe had covered me in custard.’ But no.) Another character is a Shakespeare-quoting chef who’s in love with a waitress. “Hugh Burlap is an ad-break character,” explains Innes. “He’s a chef who doesn’t really want to be one. He dreams of treading the boards. Then he meets a waitress and does soliloquys. It’s a lovely story. He’s the ad-break character who
we hear from before we go back to the dramas of the other two characters; theirs are the more serious stories.” Innes said he wanted to create a kick-arse female character so he created Roslind Greenhall, a chemistry professor and mother who also happens to be a WWII war hero. “I wanted to rewrite history " a war hero who’s a mother and also chemistry professor at Cambridge University. She’s combatant. She’ll cut people down in the lecture theatre if they heckle her. Rosalind is the kind of character I wish I was. Strong and confident. Even when shit happens.” Did Innes need to do much research to create his characters and their stories? “I did a bit of research about Bletchley Park,” he answers. Bletchley Park
was the UK government’s centre for code and cypher activities in WWII. “I made Roslind Greenhall a contemporary of Alan Turing.” Turing was the brilliant British mathematician and code breaker who was convicted of homosexuality and chemically castrated in 1952 by the State, events which led to his suicide two years later. Basically, This Can’t End Well deals with issues Innes wants to talk about himself, using social commentary and parody. “There are so many secrets,” continues Innes. “The thing with LGBT coming out dramas is that they’re so sad. I wanted to write positive, hopeful stories about coming out. Even though there’s a story about depression, the show is still hopeful. Jonathon is the easiest character " t he main exploration of the show is his story. He has mental health issues; essentially Jonathan is created in my own image. His story is a parody of the coming out story. He makes this change in his life and it becomes a humorous change, a monumentally huge and ridiculous change.”
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VENUE: Lithuanian Club, 44 Errol St, North Melbourne DATES: September 19 – October 4 (except Mondays) TIMES: 10.30pm (Sundays 9.30pm) TICKETS: $20 - $25
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VENUE: Club Voltaire, 14 Raglan St, North Melbourne DATES: September 18 - 21 & 26 - 28 TIMES: 6.30pm (Sunday 7pm) TICKETS: $19 - $24
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Beatlemania is set to sweep Melbourne once again when the musical comedy show A Hard Day’s Night of Beatles Parodies hits the stage. The show will be a Magical Mystery Tour where The Beatles’ timeless tunes Come Together with amusing and clever lyrics from musical funny man Stew Walker. Stew’s Beatles parodies poke fun at modern life " fr om myki, hipsters and politicians to celebrities, ageing and technology. And with Stew being a proud Melburnian, this is probably the only Fringe show with songs about Melbourne’s weather, laneway venues and local identities like Shane Warne, Franco Cozzo and Frank Walker from National Tiles.
VENUE: The Last Jar, 616 Elizabeth St, CBD DATES: September 30 - October 5 TIME: 8.30pm TICKETS: $15 - $18
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Innes is a maths/chemistry teacher at a high school in the ‘far-eastern suburbs’. “I’m known as that funny shouty teacher; I’m always ranting to my year 11’s.” He’s well-used to the performing life, having been Artistic Director of the successful genre-based impro theatre troupe The Impro Box. As well as teaching full-time Innes hosts a podcast panel game show on the first Saturday of every month at Northcote’s Wesley Anne. The main challenge with This Can’t End Well, he says, is the logistics of putting the entire show together himself. “I’ve got a director " R ob Lloyd " s o I’m a bit happier now.”
KIM KARDASHIAN IS BAD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT Dr. Pam Rana is here to perform the Heimlich manoeuvre on our social psyche which is being choked by a cultural meatball known as Kim Kardashian. The doctor will perform this emergency procedure en masse, freeing neural pathways by creating a forceful expulsion of air and sound (also known as laughter). In this side-splitting multimedia slideshow she will dissect how eco-catastrophes are perpetuated by the rise of hedonistic icons such as Kim. From the icy shores of eastern Canada, Pam brings to our sunburnt country a cool headed brand of environmentalism and mischievous wit. “It’s a rare form of comedy like Bill Hicks meets Al Gore in a solid night of entertainment,” says not Pam’s mom. Kim Kardashian is bad for the environment and this comedic expose full of pictures, puns and pisstaking will show you why.
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VENUE: Farouk’s Olive, 711 High Street, Thornbury DATES: September 18 - October 2 (Thursdays and Saturdays) TIME: 7pm TICKETS: $10 - $15
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SHOW STOPPER By Liza Dezfouli
Show Stopper, a solo show by queer artist Agent Cleave, takes its name from a song by the remorselessly independent singer/songwriter Peaches. “I got her blessing and her respect to call this Show Stopper,” says the performer, gender bender and provocateur. Cleave worked alongside Peaches for six years, opening shows in front of thousands and thousands of fans, “I was having the time of my life,” the beautiful bearded performer otherwise known as Anthony recalls. “I’d toured with Peaches over the years and done major festivals, and while I was having some time off in Sydney I impulsively got Show Stopper tattooed on my wrist. It’s one of my favourite Peaches singles.” If you saw the Sisters Grimm’s show Summertime in the Garden of Eden at Theatre Works last year, you’ll know exactly what sort of hilarity Agent Cleave is capable of. For those of you yet to enjoy the experience of seeing him on stage, his Fringe show is a showcase for all that the character has to offer while both deconstructing and
lauding sexual identity. “I wanted to extend the character further, do more than the club stuff; it was really hightime to make something of myself as an erotic performer, to invest more in Agent Cleave who has been my performance character for six years.” Show Stopper is essentially a cabaret where Cleave uses other people’s music in order to explore gendered tropes, the tired archetypes of ‘dangerous and effeminate sexuality’. Cleave talks about how these characters were formed in the early days of cinema, where a dangerous and effeminate sexuality was given to men - films from the time often featured a male ‘ponce’. “In the 1920s, on stage and on film, there was always that mincing, featherboa’d male who was a stalwart character, this was before
artists I have actually seen perform live,” Cleave adds. “I open with a fluffy effeminate Pirate character, who’s safe, familiar; it’s all innuendo. The audience is invited to objectify me as a performer but they are invited to respect that position also. Then the show moves into a more authentic sexuality with the other characters, something rougher, but more truthful. I reference Madonna in Dick Tracy, Jessica Rabbit…as far as the content goes, I could have written this show when I was eight,” Cleave continues. “I’ve been watching and absorbing a different range of feminine personas all my life; I still do.”
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VENUE: The melba Spiegeltent, 35 Johnston St, Collingwood DATES: September 18 - 21 & 25 - 28 TImE: 10pm TICKETS: $22 - $25
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the censors came along, and then it all changed, they had to hide those overt images of daring effeminate sexuality in the male.” It takes a drag performer to really show us what being a girl is about, to challenge our ideas about how we ‘do’ feminine, to remind us that, as women, we unconsciously adopt the models of femininity offered to us. Whether we conform to or wholeheartedly reject ubiquitous feminine personas, to some degree or another, women still orient or perform ourselves in relation to these show business types. “Thedmermaid,” explains Cleave. “My show is a celebration of all that; I’m loath to be judgemental of the drag that we all wear. I want to take everyone’s hand and say let’s not be criminalised or judged.” Be it the virgin, the vamp, or the mermaid, Cleaves’s characters flounce, swoon and strut against a live musical backdrop (provided by Pete Barry, Jonny Badlove and Kieran John Brooks) informed and inspired by the music of the great women of rock‘n’roll. “They are all
RIGHTEOUS: RIGHTS AT TWISTED TALES FOR THE ROUND TABLE THE CYNICAL VIEWER
The year is 1968, the peak of the Vietnam War, or at least that’s what Charlie thinks. Charlie is a Vietnam War enthusiast whose backpacking adventures and one too many viewings of Apocalypse Now have taken him to a dark place. Convinced he is stationed in a bunker on the brink of the Vietnam War, there is only one way out of his delusion " stand-up comedy. Featuring many true stories and anecdotes from his time in Thailand, Laos and Vietnam, Karl uses a combination of stand-up, storytelling and theatrical homage to classic war movies to re-tell his comical misadventures around South East Asia. Rapid Fire goes beyond tubing in Laos and full moon parties in Koh Phangan. It’s a show about the scary truth that sometimes you can be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Plan B is a solo circus piece created and performed by Thomas McDonald. Using circus and physical comedy, Plan B explores that space we often find ourselves inhabiting but can’t really explain. It’s a place created due to lack of planning, bad luck, poor life choices and necessity. Plan B promises to be a unique, intimate and entertaining approach to modern circus.
Multicultural Arts Victoria, in partnership with the Melbourne Fringe Festival, present Righteous: Rights at the Round Table " a youth driven forum providing a creative space for culturally diverse youth expression and celebration. Righteous is an equal platform and ‘round table’ for young people 25 and under to present and discuss ideas, stories and struggles. This year’s forum will offer five hours of provocative thinking, performances, discussions and workshops in hip hop, spoken word and zine making.
Developed by a troupe of some of Melbourne’s best up-and-coming aerialists, Twisted Tales For The Cynical Viewer is a re-telling of well loved fairytales without the happily ever after. Featuring performances in lyra, aerial hammock, pole dancing, hula hoops and cabaret, this is circus at its storytelling best. Once upon a time some cynical aerialists grew tired of happy endings. Why does the damsel in distress always need rescuing? Why does the handsome prince always win the hand of the beautiful princess? And where do all these incredibly good looking people come from anyway? Twisted Tales For The Cynical Viewer is the circus with a difference and we promise there will be no happily ever blah, blah, blah.
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VENUE: Portland Hotel, Cnr Russell & Lt Collins St, CBD DATES: September 17 – 28 TImE: 6.45pm TICKETS: $12 - $20
VENUE: Gasworks, 21 Graham St, Albert Park DATES: September 23 - October 4 (except Sunday and monday) TImE: 9.20pm TICKETS: $16 - $26
VENUE: North melbourne Town Hall, 521 Queensberry St, North melbourne DATE: September 28 TImE: 12pm TICKETS: Free
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VENUE: Gasworks, 21 Graham St, Albert Park DATES: September 30 - October 4 TImE: 10.30pm TICKETS: $21 - $26
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THE WARREN Sharing a name with legendary rapper Warren G, American billionaire Warren Buffett and Beat’s favourite Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Earl Warren, The Warren is a cozy little place to enjoy a beverage before or after your Fringe show. Find a comfy corner downstairs from the Fringe Club or explore the fascinating installations and performances throughout.
Did you know that this year is the biggest Fringe ever? Seriously. There are over 5,000 artists from Victoria and Australia’s diverse arts scene featuring in over 400 individual shows in well over 100 venues around the city - so don’t feel too bad if you get a little lost along the way. Take our program with you to each and every show, check our trustworthy maps and we’ll make sure you get to your next venue on time. Deep breaths. Relax.
THE FRINGE HUB The Fringe Hub is the beating heart of the Melbourne Fringe Festival, and this year North Melbourne will once more host a brilliant selection of Fringe Festival shows as the Hub showcases a diverse cross-section of the indie arts scene in Melbourne. This year the Hub will encompass 60 shows, ten venues, three bars, four community events and 12 club nights. Covering all genres, from theatre to dance to comedy, the Fringe Hub program amalgamates work from both emerging and established artists. The Fringe Hub has been serving the Festival for years, and there’s a reason why. Check it out.
THE FRINGE CLUB So, all of your shows for the evening have finished but you want to kick-on? The Fringe Club is for you. This year the Fringe Club will host 12 nights of incredible talent from across the Fringe - and all for a mere $0. With music, circus, comedy, colour and a touch of magic, the Fringe Club is the place to kick up your heels and dance the night away. You won’t be the same again.
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1,000 songs in a one hour show? Sounds, if not impossible, at least highly unlikely. But Grant Busé, musical comedy performer, isn’t giving too much away. The Shuffle Show features two musical performers, Busé and his musical comedy buddy Elena Gabrielle, who do live performances of 1,000 songs during the course of The Shuffle Show. Really? “Come along and find out,” Busé says. “We are fighting time in this show; we’re racing against the clock.” So whose idea was this? “It’s a musical collaboration between me and Elena,” explains Busé. “We met and it turned out that she’s the ‘woman of me’ when it comes to musical comedy. We wanted to push the boundaries of medleys, create an assortment of mega medleys inspired by certain playlists, including embarrassing ones and make a comedy show out of different types of music. We mix up things like Eminem with Jimmy Hendrix, so we pack as much variety of genre into one show and we do it very fast. “There are many commercial hits, songs everyone
knows and loves,” the performer continues. “They’re all there together " w e have themed playlists, for instance, we do the Foreplay Playlist which includes songs by Marvin Gaye, classic Rod Stewart " t unes for getting in the mood!” What are the oddest playlists in the show? ‘Melbourne Weather’, answers Busé. “We do I Can See Clearly Now as well as Thunderstruck " w e recreate a day of Melbourne weather in song. There’s the ‘Diva’ medley, the ‘Booty Mix’ which is 34 songs about big bottoms, and a few surprises " I don’t want to give too much away. The Shuffle Show is an epic musical adventure; we go on a rollercoaster ride. It’s a great gig " w e get to play songs audiences love, playlists they may have at home and we bring them alive on stage. They get to listen to all of them in a short amount of time. We had our premiere at the Comedy Festival and there was a lot of demand for a
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Snoop Dogg to " y ou name it! Plus there’s a bit of social commentary thrown in. And there’s a bit of a narrative involved: the playlists actually form a story along the way. I can’t tell you what that is though!” Any special moments in performance that stand out so far? “The last time we did the show we had a guy from Italy in the audience; he didn’t speak any English, his friends brought him along and said he loved it ‘cos he recognised all the songs!”
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After being harshly dumped by his longterm girlfriend, socially awkward Dennis grows miserable living in the quiet town of Shepparton. However, a drunken encounter with the eccentric Zoe soon leads to a series of events that shake up Dennis’ boring world more than he could ever have anticipated. Following a bizarre evening together, Dennis is shocked to discover that Zoe is a pyromaniac on the run from police. As Dennis is forced into helping protect her, events spiral from bad to worse when an angry father, a judgmental ex-girlfriend and the law begin to catch up with the unlikely duo. Over the course of this farcical adventure an unexpected connection forms between contrasting personalities, forcing Dennis to jump out of his comfort zone and embrace the crazy world surrounding him. Funny, fastpaced and exceedingly unpredictable, Highly Flammable Love promises to be one of the ultimate theatrical experiences this Fringe.
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longer season. We’ve developed it since the Comedy Festival; we’ve added new songs, seven more songs to the show.” What has been the hardest aspect of putting The Shuffle Show together? “Making them all fit,” replies Busé. “At one stage we’ve got three different songs going at once. It’s a mammoth test. I might be riffing one song and Elena might be singing another " w e have to work out ways to merge songs that might not be in the same genre or even in the same key. We’re transposing, adjusting, making them fit, so we’re learning new skills. I’ve had to teach myself percussive guitar to fill out the sound, create some depth " a s musicians we’ve learnt a lot.” Busé and Gabrielle are on to a winner with The Shuffle Show, because as he says, given that it features songs from Beyoncé to the Beatles, there’s something for everyone. “It’s a very commercial show. Everyone can get on board. And we play to the room, so there’s room to adjust to the crowd. There’s every genre, from
POINT & SHOOT: A NEW MUSICAL
Placebo is the second season for Melbourne City Ballet for 2014/2015, providing a showcase of classical, contemporary and neoclassical movement featuring the works of choreographers Yui Masukawa, Brendan Bradshaw, Michael Pappalardo and Alexandra Tylee. The works will be performed by the dancers of Melbourne City Ballet, Melbourne’s newest neo-classical dance company with a focus on developing independent artists. These performances will explore the very personal themes experienced by those dealing with grief, internalising, or living with bipolar disorder. This will be a night of personal exploration, reflection and abstract art.
It’s the year 2042. The film industry as we know it is dead - out of money and out of ideas. A has-been producer and an ambitious young screenwriter believe they’ve hit the jackpot when a mysterious femme fatale offers them the rights to a little-known ‘60s television show - a property they can use to revive mega-budget movie franchises. But turning the adventures of Selma the Dutiful Housewife into an action-packed blockbuster turns out to be an exercise fraught with danger, intrigue and perils - with potentially apocalyptic consequences. Ridiculous plot twists, explosive film sequences and showstopping musical numbers abound, as four actors take on over 50 roles and play a variety of musical instruments in this unique and hilarious production.
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FOCUS ON: THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT By Liza Dezfouli
The long-term future of The Owl and the Pussycat theatre in Richmond may be uncertain but its presence at this year’s Fringe Festival is strongly assured. The Artistic Director and founder of The Owl and the Pussycat, Jason Kavanagh, is stepping down so this Fringe season will be a swan song of sorts. Beat spoke to Phillip Rouse, Director and Producer, about the season of works coming up at The Owl and Pussycat for the Melbourne Fringe.
stay around for the next show. It’s not as hectic as having to run from venue to venue. People don’t have to run around bumping in and bumping out their shows. Everything is so localised. You can sit and chat and meet the other actors.” Rouse’s company Don’t Look Away is producing a show called The Great God Mogadon. “My show is a classic radio play where four women play roles that were originally written for men. I chose it ‘cos it’s a brilliant satire. It’s about a man in the public service who gets a knock on the door and becomes a very important cog in the public administration…but eventually he becomes a lamb to the slaughter when they conspire against him.” Sounds familiar. “It’s still relevant,” notes Rouse. “It’s a big thing when the government is willing to put its own people in harms way. The original play is written for radio. We have four women on stage who are telling the story rather than acting it out. There’s a special look and character to it.” Other shows in the season include Gavin Roach’s I Can’t Say the F Word, about the impact of language on
“Jason curated these shows,” says the theatre-maker. “It’s all still up in the air what will happen after he leaves but he will make the announcement when we do know,” he notes of the future of the small venue which has become something of a favourite amongst the indie theatre spaces of Melbourne. “It’s a great venue,” says Rouse. “Very handy. A small intimate theatre. It’s unique as people do live there. There’s one word to describe it and that’s ‘diversity.’ So much of Fringe happens in North Melbourne and there are 400 other shows so even though ours are all individual shows, and they’re all incredibly different from one another, we thought it would be foolish not
to work together " in t he spirit of collaboration that is the Fringe Festival. Fringe is so large so we wondered how we could present all these shows together in a way that makes it special. Rather than being separate producers competing with each other, we decided to make our theatre a sort of Fringe hub and do them all together.” This means audience members can stop at The Owl and the Pussycat for an entire evening and catch three different shows on the one night. “There are three vastly different experiences each night, one at 6.30pm, one at 8pm and one at 9pm,” says Rouse. “You can grab a drink, meet the cast and talk to everyone and
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identity; Who Are You Supposed To Be by Keith Gow, a love letter to all things geek; Loose Canon Theatre Company’s Ten Plagues inspired by Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year; Ludwig and Lowengrin, a one-man show inspired by historical events offering a glimpse into the enigmatic world of King Ludwig II; and The World Inside by five young minds, a sharing of the very young child’s experience and co-devised with its young performer. Rouse was around when The Owl and the Pussycat was established. “I did one of their first shows,” he says. “It’s nice to go back. The Owl and the Pussycat has allowed for all sorts of experimental theatre. You can do that in a small theatre when you’re not relying on ticket sales.”
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FOCUS ON: AFTER DARK THEATRE By Liza Dezfouli
Who would elect to produce 15 shows for Fringe? Francesco Minniti, the Creative Producer of After Dark Theatre, is doing just that. Although he’s more like an überproducer for Boardwalk Republic, the company’s circus extravaganza coming up at Gasworks. “The artists actually produce themselves. My company has made make sure their shows are in the right venue, that they’ve got the right lighting, that sort of thing; our team is pulling it all together.” Circus lover Minniti noticed that the circus component of Fringe had diminished as a result of North Melbourne’s Meat Market no longer being used as a hub for Fringe, and wanted to address this. “There wasn’t a centralised circus hub,” he explains. “Over the last few years the circus component of Fringe has gotten smaller. A bunch of independent producers banded together to create a chaotic yet fun environment and put together a hub for circus on the south side. The Boardwalk Republic is a centralised collection of venues, drawing inspiration from two of America’s famous boardwalks in entertainment history: the infamous Atlantic City boardwalk and the family
friendly Coney Island.” With some funding from the City of Port Phillip, support from Gasworks as well as some private sponsorship, fundraisers, a Pozible campaign and ‘love from me and my business partner’, Minniti and After Dark Theatre have organised three venues at Gasworks: the larger theatre they’ve renamed the Big House, the smaller studio theatre is now the Clover Club plus there’s a big top, a domed tent called Bally. “That’s more like a pop-up venue,” says Minniti. Creating an awareness of Gasworks in the public mind as a Fringe venue has been one challenge facing the After Dark Team: people don’t see it as easy to get to
in comparison to other venues. “There’s only one tram that goes to Gasworks,” notes Minniti. “So we decided to fix that " we’ve put on the Bootlegger, a bus service that runs from Southern Cross station to Gasworks. It’s a free service that goes every 30 minutes. The shows in Boardwalk include Plan B (a one man performer), Illuminate, a crew of NICA students in their final year…some bigger names like Avon Waite who’s a great gentleman, contemporary artists Idle Hands, there are mirror ball specialists…some performers have trained at Jacques Le Coq school in Paris.” There’s a Best of the Boardwalk, a variety night which will showcase the highlights from the different shows. People can come along and see three different shows a night.” Taking their inspiration from the atmosphere in the outdoor spaces at Adelaide Fringe Festival, the team are creating a fairground vibe at Gasworks Art Park. “People come in for free, they can wander around, we’ve got a popcorn cart, a fairy floss machine, there are market stalls and an art gallery,” continues Minniti. “There’s a lot of outdoor entertainment. Performers are outside spruiking their shows. We’ve got an outdoor
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stage and we’re screening a short film festival in the big tent between performances.” Although putting together something like this sounds like a huge undertaking, Minniti reckons it’s not that difficult. “Once you get it going it’s not that hard to put something together,” says Minniti. “We’re a good team, Harry Cope and I go way back; we’ve been working together for a couple of months on this with our ‘lovely assistant’ Emma Shepherd, she’s managing the outdoor stalls.” Minniti is a circus performer himself but for Fringe he will be wandering around for the duration of the Boardwalk Republic and hosting the whole shebang, all the while performing Charlie Carbone, a heighted ‘people-pleasing’ version of himself.
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MISS FLETCHER SINGS THE BLUES Miss Fletcher. Motivator, inspirer and teacher. Fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe and winner of the People’s Choice Award at the New Zealand Fringe Festival, Miss Fletcher Sings the Blues is a musical comedy with educational benefits. A well-meaning, but slightly unhinged music teacher treats an unwitting geography class to a surprise music lesson. Tackling the big issues of the world, her songs such as Key Changes for Africa, Puberty Express and Moustache Paradise make for an hilarious off-kilter performance that brings to mind the likes of Tim Minchin and Flight of the Conchords.
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Fresh from their European dates with Amanda Palmer, Berlin’s Prince and Princess of indie rock and Europop return to Melbourne to launch their new album Eurosmash! Astrid and Otto are Die Roten Punkte (The Red Dots). Orphaned as kids when Astrid was 12 and Otto was nine, the brother and sister duo found shelter in a Berlin squat and never rockin’ well looked back. Eurosmash! is Die Roten Punkte’s fourth full-length show and comes after nearly seven years of critical acclaim from touring worldwide. A Die Roten Punkte gig is a wild, rock‘n’roll cabaret ride, full of hilarious, truly catchy and award winning pop songs, constantly interrupted by the squabbling of the dysfunctional siblings. Astrid is a notorious party girl regularly ending up in the European tabloids and gossip columns. Otto sings songs about politics and fruit and has become the new wave pin up boy for the straight edge movement.
VENUE: Howler, 7 - 11 Dawson St, Brunswick DATES: September 30 - October 4 TIMES: 9.30pm (Saturday 5.30pm) TICKETS: $15 - $20
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THE MARIONETTES: ALBUM LAUNCH The Marionettes are an eight-piece funk/soul band from Melbourne. Featuring original tunes written by jazz pianist/composer Fionn O’Sullivan, as well as one of Melbourne’s leading big-band composers and saxophonist Rob Simone and coupled with the soulful sounds of Lorraine Salvador on vocals, The Marionettes are ready to funk the house down with their new album Can’t Wait For The Weekend. Supporting will be Melbourne’s leading Tarantino tribute band, The Tarantino Experience.
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VENUE: The Shed At The Edge Of The World, 271 Nicholson Street, Brunswick East DATES: September 24 – 27 TIME: 8pm TICKETS: $15 - $19
Performing a series of newly composed pieces for electro-acoustic violin and loop station, Through the Looping Glass explores the relationship between contemporary classical music and modern technology. Discover what happens when composers and performers are challenged by the parameters of the loop station. This solo performance by international violinist Helen Bower features compositions from local, interstate and international composers including Ade Vincent, Charles MacInnes, Max Perryment and Grace Huie Robbins. Following each show there will be a Q&A session with the artist. This will be an opportunity for audience members to find out more about the works performed, the collaboration process between composers and performer and the challenges of incorporating the loop station into both composition and performance.
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Writer/creator and singer/actor Pete Reid brings his latest collection of songs and stories, all penned as a tribute to those on the edges of life, to a remote shed in Brunswick. Ranging in styles from alternate folk, smokin’ blues and dark cabaret, and featuring stories and songs about English high rollers in Las Vegas and wayward polar bears. In order to evoke an atmosphere of remoteness the show is being performed in a small wooden shed in East Brunswick, the cedar-wood walls creating a certain wooden cabin quality. As performer and creator Pete combines acting, oral storytelling, set design, and projected illustrations and animations to deliver a transportive concert experience in an intimate environment. Experimental guitarist Jeremy Parker contributes his rich textures and haunting tones to the songs and stories, contributing both nuance and atmosphere to the sound. Andrew Tanner (Vulgagrad, Zulya) will also join on some nights as a guest bass player.
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VENUE: Feat Theatre, 62 - 64 Oakover Rd, Preston DATES: October 1 - 5 (except Thursday) TIME: 8.30pm TICKETS: $11 - $20
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AWKWARD CONVERSATIONS WITH ANIMALS I’VE FUCKED by Rob Hayes
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Bobby is an outsider. He doesn’t quite fit in with his peers, he’s certainly not welcome at work and the less that’s said about his family life the better. But where Bobby does find a shred of happiness is in his love for the animal kingdom. All parts of the animal kingdom. Directed by James Dalton and featuring Heath Ivey-Law, Awkward Conversations with Animals I’ve Fucked is the second time Unhappen has brought the work of award-winning British playwright Rob Hayes to Australia. This series of intimate, post-coital monologues see Hayes’ evil wit applied to the taboo realm of zoophilia, charting a provocative line between tender melancholy and cringe humour.
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Hot off a country-wide tour of last year’s controversial and sold out Melbourne Fringe show Unsex Me, creator/performer Mark Wilson attacks Shakespeare’s Richard II " a God-king who realizes he’s human " a nd comes out with a treasonous consanguinity of celebrity, corruption and religious self-love. Whoever your political Gods are, Richard is the acknowledgement that they are human, corruptible and compromised.
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Be a ghost hunter for the evening on the Old Melbourne Ghost Tour. Lantern Ghost Tours are revealing the dark side of the capital during this year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival. Put your walking shoes on and journey back in time through Melbourne’s hidden laneways and haunted locations. Hear of our most famous ghost - opera singer Federici - who plummeted to death in front of his audience. Learn of body snatchers supplying fresh corpses in the name of medical science and just why there is mounting evidence to suggest that Jack the Ripper himself escaped to Melbourne to continue his killing spree. Tour guides rotate nightly and include actors Ross Daniels, Jeremy Kewley, Matt Shembri, Stephanie Osztreicher and Angela Sims.
Venue: Starts at Federation Square, Cnr Flinders and Swanston St, CBD DATeS: September 18 - October 5 (except Wednesdays) TIMe: 8.30pm TICKeTS: $16 - $30
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Another savagely comic work from Neil Labute about the perfidy of the human beast. Four repugnant characters, four far-toorecognisable relationships, insults that draw blood, raunchy sexual slurs, face-crushing fights and the death of an innocent pet fish.
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Venue: The Wilde, 153 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy DATeS: September 28 - October 4 (except Monday) TIMeS: 8pm (extra show at 5pm Saturday) TICKeTS: $12 - $15
Marcus Doherty brings his “wit, insight and not a small amount of skill” - Shepparton News
A twisted romantic comedy set to light up the Melbourne Fringe. Socially awkward Dennis’ world spirals out of control when he falls in love with eccentric pyromaniac Zoe... The crazy adventure that follows is hilarious and heart warming. Written and Directed by Marcus Doherty. Venue: Guild Theatre, Level 1, Union House, University of Melbourne, Parkville Time: 8.00pm (60 min) Tickets: Full $19, Conc. $15, Cheap Tuesday $13, Group (4ppl) $13 Dates: September 29 - October 4 www.melbournefringe.com.au / 03 9660 9666
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