Fringe @ The Store Room
WELCOME TO FRINGE @ THE STORE ROOM!
The award winning independent Festival hub The Store Room is back with an exciting festival line-up for the 2009 Melbourne Fringe Festival. Featuring up to 6 different shows every night and a variety of late night shows on Friday and Saturday, there is something here for even the most die-hard of Fringe-goers. With the bar open from 6:30pm till very late, the intimate surrounds of The Store Room is the perfect place to either experience the exhilarating vibe that is Fringe or just chill out between shows. Either way, The Store Room will be the place to check out and check in during the 2009 Melbourne Fringe Festival.
ATTRACT/REPEL by MELBOURNE TOWN PLAYERS
Directed & Devised by Ming-Zhu Hii. Presented by The Store Room Theatre.
29 Sept - 10 October Tues - Sun (no show mondays) @ 7pm
Tickets: $30 Full/ $20 Conc / $20 Group 8+
Bookings: CLICK HERE / 9660 9666 or at the door
More info: www.themelbournetownplayers.com
An installed, performance-interrogation into self and the other. What's your favourite topping on toast? How would you describe the colour of your skin? How un-Australian are you? In Attract/Repel, writer and director Ming-Zhu Hii takes a bold, raw, and idiosyncratic new look at race and identity, similarity and difference, and the age-old issue of us and them. Visually and aurally stunning, it is a brazen new work that pushes artistic as well as thematic boundaries. It challenges old assumptions, and asks big and tricky questions of its audience. With a dramatically diverse creative team, The Melbourne Town Players interrogates who we are, how we behave, and why we are still being racist.
HOME ECONOMICS by LITTLE ONES THEATRE
Written by Declan Greene. Directed by Stephen Nicolazzo
29 Sept - 10 October Tues - Sun (no show mondays) @ 9:30pm
Tickets: $22 Full/ $17 Conc / $10 Tightarse Tuesday
Bookings: CLICK HERE / 9660 9666 or at the door
More info: www.littleonestheatre.org
A five-course black-comic digust-ation. Splattered stories about sex, food and history, laced with LSD. From blood-soaked business dinners to boy-love bakery classes, acclaimed collective Little Ones Theatre presents a tasty, confronting evening of characters who play with their food, push boundaries and expose the slimy inner-workings that lie beneath domestic facades. They say that food brings people together, and it does in Greene's episodic satire, however, instead of creating the ultimate in wholesome family fun, food becomes an outlet to bring our darkest fantasies to the table.
'Greene is a major talent. His career will be watched with much interest' - The Age.
DEAD RIVER - A NEW SHOW BY KATE MCLENNAN
Written by Kate McLennan. Directed by Fiona Harris
29 Sept - 10 October Tues - Sun (no show mondays) @ 8:15pm
Tickets: $21 Full/ $18 Conc / $15 Tightarse Tuesday
Bookings: CLICK HERE / 9660 9666 or at the door
More info: www.myspace.com/katemclennan
In 2006 Kate's show "The Debutante Diaries" won the Melbourne Fringe Best Comedy Award and the Most Outstanding Newcomer, it was also nominated for a Barry Award in the 2007 Comedy Festival. In her new show Kate brings the inhabitants of a fictional country town Dead River to life. Told through the eyes of 6-year-old Janie McCallister and her older sister Rachel, we meet their psychic, poker-playing neighbour Tanya and her feral kids, the local pie shop worker Irene and her wheelchair bound daughter Narelle along with members of the McCallister family. For Janie and Rachel life is full of freedom with one Enid Blytonesque adventure after another but when the body of a man is found on the outskirts of town life in Dead River takes a darker turn.
THE HOUNDS
Written & Performed by Adam McKenzie, Robby Lloyd & Tegan Higginbotham
29 Sept - 10 October Tues - Sun (no show Mondays) @ 8pm
Tickets: $20 Full/ $15 Conc / $15 Tightarse Tuesday
Bookings: CLICK HERE / 9660 9666 or at the door
They have acted out Every Film Ever Made in an hour and saved the world's water supplies, but now The Hounds have to face their most confusing and difficult challenge to date...themselves! The Hounds - Adam McKenzie, Robby Lloyd and Tegan Higginbotham debuted with a sell out season at the 2006 Melbourne Fringe Festival with The Hound Of The Baskervilles. Following its success, they wrote and performed Every Film Ever Made which had sell out seasons at the 2007 Melbourne Fringe Festival, 2008 Adelaide Fringe and 2008 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and is now in plans for a national tour. Recently, The Hounds performed their latest show, The Last Bucket of Water at the Arts Centre as part of the Full Tilt Comedy season during the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
BART FREEBAIRN in A Breathtakingly Magical Journey into the Ordinary
Written & Performed by Bart Freebairn.Dramaturg - Dave Callan
29 Sept - 10 October Tues - Sun (no show mondays) @ 6:45pm Bookings: CLICK HERE / 9660 9666 or at the door
More info: www.bartlol.com
Find the magic behind the shroud of toast and tram timetables. Jump down the rabbit hole and drink from the teapot of destiny. Look behind the Wizards beard and find the real magic. Watch the bright, hilarious Bart Freebairn weave a fancy comedy rug of the absurdity, hilarity and the profound. Coming from well received seasons at Adelaide Fringe Festival and Melbourne International Comedy Festival Bart Freebairn has a treat for Melbourne Fringe that should not be missed. This rising young comedian will take you on a magic carpet ride into his wonderfully chaotic mind to explore our relationship with the extraordinary and mundane. Hold tight and let the fun begin!
PLEASE DON’T USE MY FLANNEL FOR THAT
Written & Performed by Lou Sanz
29 September - 3 October @ 9:15pm (5 shows only)
Tickets: $20 Full / $15 Conc
Bookings: CLICK HERE / 9660 9666 or at the door
More info: www.lousanz.com
When Lou first moved out of home she wound up living on a piece of floor in suburban LA with a real life cowboy for a potential pimp and landlord. Her attempts to take control of her life landed her living with a heroin addict, a guy who didn't believe in pants, a gun enthusiast and everyone else your mother always dreamed of. Listen, I'm sure things got better...
ANDREW MCCLELLAND’S Somewhat Accurate History of the Fall of the Roman Empire
Written & Performed by Andrew McClelland.
6 October - 10 October ( 5 shows only) 9:15pm
Tickets: $20 Full / $18 Conc
Bookings: CLICK HERE / 9660 9666 or at the door
Join Andrew (2009 Sydney Comedy Festival Jury Prize Winner) as he examines how the world's greatest empire managed to throw itself to the lions. Was it the decadent orgies, the rise of Christianity or purely a case of wide scale lead poisoning? Featuring blood thirsty/humorously ironic assassinations, the fascinatingly perverse personal habits of Emperors, people named Sextus, intriguing parallels with the present day and magic potion-toting Gauls.
I LOVE LULU - A RADIO SITCOMWritten by Claire Hooper. Performed by Paul Goddard. 2, 3, & 9 October @ 10:30pm (3 shows only)
Tickets: $18 Full / $14 Conc
Bookings: CLICK HERE / 9660 9666 or at the door
More info: www.clairehooper.com
Paully and Lulu have been friends for years but living together is putting a strain on the relationship. Paully's high pressure job at the Comedy Laboratory is squeezing all the joy out of his already melancholy soul, and the only way he can communicate with Lulu these days is by sending letters to her highly successful, nationally syndicated, love advice column, I Love Lulu. If she realized who was sending all those letters she'd know he was completely, desperately in love with her. But a horse, even one as well read and morally decent as Paully, is not a fit love match for a real human girl. A radio sitcom, puppet show and love story all in one.
PUPPY FIGHT SOCIAL CLUB
Hardcore Improv with a resident DJ
2 & 3 October @ 10:45pm (Two shows only)
Tickets: $20 Full / $15 ConcBookings: CLICK HERE / 9660 9666 or at the door
More info: www.bloustien.com/puppyfight
Look out Melbourne! The stars of Sydney's improv underground are in town to smash your brains and soil your souls. For two nights only, this ancient society of amusement freaks will transform The Store Room into a house party haven of comedy, bowel-churning impro, drama, music, variety and everything in between. Starring Cale Bain (iMPro3 Shuffle), Dave Bloustien (Good News Week), Jon Williams (The Chaser), the DJ sowndes of Tom Lowndes (Underbelly) with some very special guests from around the Fringe. This is not a show. This is Puppy Fight, and it's in your face. Woof!
SANZ SCRIPT
One Writer, One Night, One Story
Written by Lou Sanz Conceived by Toby Truslove
Saturday 10 October @ 10:30pm (one show only)
Tickets: $20 Full / $15 Conc
Bookings: CLICK HERE / 9660 9666 or at the door
More info: www.lousanz.com
Writer Lou Sanz (Moosehead 2009, Life Support SBS TV) takes her storytelling talents off the page and onto the stage in attempt to write an entire play live (yes, with a complete narrative and all) with the help of some of Melbourne's most accomplished impro and comedy performers. Featuring The Hounds, Toby Truslove, Geraldine Hickey, Celia Pacquola, Luke McGregor and many other special Fringe guests... this is sure to be, if anything, a rather spontaneous event.
