‘The Pride’ – actor-turned-playwright Alexi Kaye Campbell’s 2008 debut – explores two sets of triangular relationships, ebbing and flowing between 1958 and 2008. It shimmers with humour on the surface but its exploration of emotional isolation, closeted gay love and the implications of longed-for ‘liberation’ is what gives this work its potency. In the 1950s, […]
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‘Remember That Time? – A Musical’ Outhouse 9pm, Saturday matinee 2.30pm Written and composed by Anne Marie Cullen. ‘Remember That Time?’ is a musical biopic of returned Irish rock star Cullen, which charts her music careers in the band Saucy Monkey and her life and loves. The multi-media presentation not only impresses for a Fringe
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Sketches Invented and Drawn Teater Dictat, Sweden Outhouse at 7.30pm, Saturday matinee 4pm Johan Svensson has a lot of parts to play, a lots of countries to visit, lots of times to live in, and a lot of famous people to sleep with. He is telling (playwright) Matthew Short’s story. It is a play where he flips between playwright Short and
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Theatre@36, Teachers Club Time: 7.30pm, Saturday matinee 2.30pm Duration 60 minutes Written and performed by Rupert Bevan Directed by Lucy Rossen. Rupert Bevan is energy and charm unleashed in his solo show from Melbourne ‘Darling Boy’. It’s a story that is hurled from the stage with so much power that it leaves the audience thrilled and exhausted.
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Baklâ Theatre@36, Teachers Club Time 7.30pm, Saturday matinee 4pm Duration: 60 minutes Written and Performed by Max Perry. Baklâ is quite a story. We meet ‘Max’ son of a British father and a Filipina. He is definitely in this story, culturally the latter but for those rarer qualities on this Fringe circuit, his enunciation, diction and projection are flawless. Max
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