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Does the Mens Gallery count as a theatre?
Performers are live, on stage, there's music and there's acting. Seems to tick all the boxes.
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Went with Mrs WPT to the Malthouse last night & saw:
Nicola Gunn
Piece For Person and Ghetto Blaster
Presented by Malthouse Theatre; a co-production with Performing Lines
Walking along the canal in a foreign country, you see a man throwing stones at a nesting duck. You ask him to stop. He tells you to mind your own business. What do you do?
Piece For Person and Ghetto Blaster explores the rawness of confrontation and the ethical dilemma of intervention. Through the lens of a surreal but everyday event, Nicola Gunn plays out a tangle of imagined responses and repercussions through performance and dance.
Gunn returns to Malthouse Theatre with her signature wit, teaming up with choreographer Jo Lloyd, to create a work that is part dance, part theatre, and entirely hypnotic. This is Gunn at her best: profoundly funny and brilliantly self-scathing.
Great performance. High energy, highly recommended. Of course taste is individual: there's my taste & bad taste
Basically Nicola Gunn talks & interacts with the Audience throughout. Unique, funny, self deprecating, energetic and thoughtful.
So far have seen 3 plays & all have been winners:
1. The Encounter
2. Homosexuals (faggots)
3. Piece for Person & Ghetto blaster
Nicola Gunn
Piece For Person and Ghetto Blaster
Presented by Malthouse Theatre; a co-production with Performing Lines
Walking along the canal in a foreign country, you see a man throwing stones at a nesting duck. You ask him to stop. He tells you to mind your own business. What do you do?
Piece For Person and Ghetto Blaster explores the rawness of confrontation and the ethical dilemma of intervention. Through the lens of a surreal but everyday event, Nicola Gunn plays out a tangle of imagined responses and repercussions through performance and dance.
Gunn returns to Malthouse Theatre with her signature wit, teaming up with choreographer Jo Lloyd, to create a work that is part dance, part theatre, and entirely hypnotic. This is Gunn at her best: profoundly funny and brilliantly self-scathing.
Great performance. High energy, highly recommended. Of course taste is individual: there's my taste & bad taste
Basically Nicola Gunn talks & interacts with the Audience throughout. Unique, funny, self deprecating, energetic and thoughtful.
So far have seen 3 plays & all have been winners:
1. The Encounter
2. Homosexuals (faggots)
3. Piece for Person & Ghetto blaster
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Went to see a play at the Malthouse Theatre last night with Mrs WPT. Wow, talk about in your face: Wild Bore
http://malthousetheatre.com.au/whats-on/wild-bore
The play opens with the curtain going up, a trestle table covered from the front then one bum resting on the table with anus just about showing facing the audience. A monologue ensues with the woman actor reading critics who have panned the play and perhaps another work.
She is then joined by another bum doing the same thing but with aa different set of critiques followed by a third one. Three women, three bums, reading criticism that is mostly so inane it is very funny.
The play moves well beyond this but does use bums, anus's & later nudity.
All 3 women are award winning actors & comediennes in their own right(s): One from the US, one from the UK & one Australian.
In small part by the American actor / comedienne it is a brief homage to Andy Kaufmann's humour at other times it is political but they send themselves up in doing so: part absurdist, part slapstick & part serious theatre so to speak.
This review captures it reasonably well:
"They've got a lot of cheek, these three women"
These whip-smart comediennes are brazen, tasteless and hilarious...
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/sta ... w8l1x.html
Worth going. It's not the best of plays I've seen this year but still worth going IMO, very funny & confronting at times.
http://malthousetheatre.com.au/whats-on/wild-bore
The play opens with the curtain going up, a trestle table covered from the front then one bum resting on the table with anus just about showing facing the audience. A monologue ensues with the woman actor reading critics who have panned the play and perhaps another work.
She is then joined by another bum doing the same thing but with aa different set of critiques followed by a third one. Three women, three bums, reading criticism that is mostly so inane it is very funny.
The play moves well beyond this but does use bums, anus's & later nudity.
All 3 women are award winning actors & comediennes in their own right(s): One from the US, one from the UK & one Australian.
In small part by the American actor / comedienne it is a brief homage to Andy Kaufmann's humour at other times it is political but they send themselves up in doing so: part absurdist, part slapstick & part serious theatre so to speak.
This review captures it reasonably well:
"They've got a lot of cheek, these three women"
These whip-smart comediennes are brazen, tasteless and hilarious...
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/sta ... w8l1x.html
Worth going. It's not the best of plays I've seen this year but still worth going IMO, very funny & confronting at times.
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For David & Lola: Heard this on PBS on the weekend (part of their radio-thon) having re-subscribed:
Sarah Vaughn's version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvcaSBN82ns
Sarah Vaughn's version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvcaSBN82ns
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She did! She wanted to see Carmen and was disappointed to miss out on tickets, but we took a punt on this instead and both really liked it. Then followed it up with some Stravinsky at Hamer Hall the next day before I headed off to work. 
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Went with Mrs WPT to see "The Moors" at Red-Stich Theatre (rear 2 Chapel Street St KIlda corner Dandenong Road opposite the Astor Theatre) tonight.
Good fun.
Small theatre, upfront and personal.
A recent review:
https://www.timeout.com/melbourne/theatre/the-moors
Good fun.
Small theatre, upfront and personal.
A recent review:
https://www.timeout.com/melbourne/theatre/the-moors
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Went with Mrs WPT a couple of days ago and bought (limited) seasons tickets for 6 shows for 2020 season at The Malthouse Theatre (after a 2 year hiatus):
https://www.malthousetheatre.com.au/wha ... ories=4794
Not too expensive (per show) when you get 6 or more tickets.
https://www.malthousetheatre.com.au/wha ... ories=4794
Not too expensive (per show) when you get 6 or more tickets.
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Off to the theatre this weekend to see a RedStitch theatre production (part of the Midsumma festival: The Feather in the Web
This is a review of the same play when it was in Sidanee in 2018:
https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/th ... 16lyd.html
This is a review of the same play when it was in Sidanee in 2018:
https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/th ... 16lyd.html
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The other week Mrs WPT and I went to the Malthouse theatre and saw a great version of “The Importance of being Earnest” a two man show playing 6 roles. Great fun and a good romp.
2 days ago in Adelaide we saw Molliers “Tartuffe” a French play a farce performed by Scottish actors with English subtitles. It was a hoot, great acting and good fun.
https://theclothesline.com.au/tartuffe- ... 20-review/
Last night after the bike ride we saw Columbian Circus. It was the last night of the fringe and honestly it was one of the best shows I’ve seen in many many years. Uplifting, lots of energy, fantastic sound and just lots of fun. It was the last show of the Adelaide Fringe festival and Mrs WPT and I had a great time.
If you get a chance in the post coronavirus world to see it don’t pass it up:
https://indaily.com.au/arts-and-culture ... s-acelere/
2 days ago in Adelaide we saw Molliers “Tartuffe” a French play a farce performed by Scottish actors with English subtitles. It was a hoot, great acting and good fun.
https://theclothesline.com.au/tartuffe- ... 20-review/
Last night after the bike ride we saw Columbian Circus. It was the last night of the fringe and honestly it was one of the best shows I’ve seen in many many years. Uplifting, lots of energy, fantastic sound and just lots of fun. It was the last show of the Adelaide Fringe festival and Mrs WPT and I had a great time.
If you get a chance in the post coronavirus world to see it don’t pass it up:
https://indaily.com.au/arts-and-culture ... s-acelere/
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Guessing this thread won’t be getting updated again for a while. 
https://www.theage.com.au/national/vict ... 54abt.html
https://www.theage.com.au/national/vict ... 54abt.html
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