Nil, Cat + Buried

Presented by The Dog Theatre, La Mama and Le Poulet Terrible

By Stephen Sewell

"When you look into someone's eyes and you can't see anyone looking back, that's when your skin really starts to crawl..."

Three stories of love, sex, violence and horror by one of Australia's finest and most provocative playwrights.

"great dark humour and outstanding performances" Australian Stage Nov 08

Directed by Alice Bishop

With Natalie Carr, Richard Cawthorne, David Kambouris, Elizabeth Thomson and the music of Biddy Connor

demens

By Amedeo Astorino

demens takes you behind the walls of Elysian Fields, a private psychiatric hospital, where not all is what it seems...

Valerie (Sarah Bollenberg) is a victim of incest and fantasizes about being lobotomized. Gabriel (Nicholas Barker-Pendree) is the sadistic nurse who wants to save her soul. Dr. Osmond (Ian Rooney) is the respected psychiatrist tormented by secret desires. Allan (Glen Hancox) is going to be 'cured' of his homosexuality by undergoing electro shock treatment. This is a disturbing and often surreal psychodrama that explores mental illness, sexual abuse, and religious fundamentalism.

Directed by Bruce Langdon

With Nicholas Barker-Pendree, Sarah Bollenberg, Glen Hancox and Ian Rooney

Serenade

As part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2010

By Slawomir Mrozek

Three Hens, a Rooster and a Fox... one enchanted evening.

Follow the character of Fox, a charismatic natural-born killer with a conscience who laments being tied to the cruel laws of nature and longs for a new self-identity.

He attempts to seduce the Hens of a local henhouse with sweet music and rebel angst, all under the beak of an overprotective Rooster.

Written by award-winning Polish playwright Slawomir Mrozek - one of the finest exponents of the Theatre of Absurd and master of short form, this parable of today's cannibalistic social order is at once contemporary and timeless. Serenade is directed by Polish-born Marta Kaczmarek, who trained at the prestigious StateTheatre School in Krakow.

Presented by Tadaria Studio

La Petite Mort: the orgasm

As part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2010

Performed by Isabel Hertaeg

La Petite Mort is a raunchy cabaret romp through sex and sexuality. Edinburgh Fringe Sell-Out Show 2009.

"This is a truly original, delightful, accomplished show (and) another of the shows that remind you why you love the Fringe so much." The Scotsman,09.

"Best Bet of the Melbourne Fringe Festival." The Age.

Did You Know:
Scientific research has associated true love with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, which means that love, like OCD can be treated with Prozac. The vibrator was originally invented as a medical instrument and preceded the vacuum cleaner as a household appliance by 9 years.

"The biggest draw here is Hertaeg's powerful voice, she quickly sets a sultry mood and is well on her way to becoming one strong cabaret diva" Australian Stage.
"Strap yourself in for a night out with cabaret artist Isabel Hertaeg." The Age, Australia.

Le Garçon Néurotique

As part of the Adelaide Fringe 2010

By Josh Cameron

Le Garçon Néurotique is a dark and hilariously twisted journey into the mind of a cocktail waiter, teetering on the edge of madness. Concocted together with a stirring insight into the elegant but depraved heaven of world-class alcoholism and the indignity involved in an industry that can simply be observed as paid servitude.

So perch yourself on the edge of your stool to witness a story diving into the world of hospitality, inside a mind struggling to cope with himself, life and ultimately a job that demands you sacrifice your dignity, in whatever state, for the sake of a buck.