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May 2017
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow 2017 (Brisbane)
Presented by Brisbane Powerhouse Buckle up Australia! The Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow is back on the bus, hitting the road to home deliver the freshest and funniest from Australia’s largest comedy festival! With an all-killer, no-filler cast of Australian stars, talented newcomers and international performers we’ve got all your comedy bases covered. Featuring everything from stand-up to sketch, slapstick to song, each individual line-up presents the best of the Festival in one hilarious show. Every year our cast of intrepid entertainers board the bus and set their sights on over 80 destinations across this great Southern land. No road is left untraveled and no sides are left un-split, from Darwin to Devonport and everywhere in between! Don’t miss your chance to join the laughs at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow. Get on board, grab your mates and get giggling as the ultimate comedy roadtrip rolls into town! Lineup:…
Find out more »July 2017
Salty
The Butterfly Club presents gooey Singaporean horror comedy.* Two-time Melbourne Fringe award-winner Shannan Lim and his spook buddies Jayde Harding and Tye Norman vomit three short, interconnected plays—contemporary slants on the lurid demons of Singaporean-Malay mythology. Accompanied by neat video projections, Salty features a curious stillborn fetus, a slippery oily man nobody can catch, and a smouldering sex vampire looking for somebody to impregnate her. Each story places a ghost of Singapore in a modern Australian context and deconstructs contrasting ideas about culture, masculinity and self that exist between Asia and Australia. Southeast Asian ghosts are frequently people who died in agonising circumstances, and whose motives are therefore recognisable as base human desires, only so pure and singular to the point of terror. In Singaporean folklore, salt is the currency of the afterlife. Salty—together with acclaimed Asian Ghost-ery Store and upcoming The Yonder—are part of a series that looks at cultural identity with absurdity and play. WINNER Melbourne Fringe 2016 —…
Find out more »September 2017
Chef: Come Dine with Us! (Atobiz Co & Persona Inc)
The perfect satisfaction for all theatre-loving foodies! Two rival sous chefs compete in the ultimate cooking show to determine who stays in the kitchen to carry on the legacy of the popular Korean dish bibimbap. Combining jaw-dropping beatboxing and breakdancing, astounding acrobatic displays and pure visual delights, this culinary cornucopia of entertainment will please every palette. Purchase tickets at brisbanefestival.com.au Sat 9 & Sat 10 Sept @ 7:30PM Sun 10 Sept @2PM (Post show Q&A) Tue 12- Sat 16 Sept @7:30PM Sat 16 Sept @2PM Venue: Brisbane Powerhouse - Powerhouse Theatre 119 Lamington Street NEW FARM QLD 4005 Cost: Adult - $38 Concession - $32 Child - $19 Group (6+) - $32
Find out more »In Between Two
Celebrated Asian-Australian Hip Hop artists, Joel Ma and James Mangohig share their stories growing up in Howard's Australia: underscored with humour and rap beats that resonate with Asian Australian youth today. Produced by CAAP (Contemporary Asian Australian Performance). On Tour NOW - 15 OCT.
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