Show Synopsis

Surprise Musical Parody!

A musical parody that will surprise and entertain you. A celebration of familiar childhood characters mashed together with a popular melody, to bring you a show stopping piece of theatre. Get ready for eight minutes of sheer fun.

Carnival Lussurioso

Original devised piece
A devised (created by the actors and rehearsal during the rehearsal process) piece based around the stock characters of Commedia Del Arte. Fabio and Valentina are in love, but her father Pantalone (not quite himself as of late) has arranged an engagement for Valentina to marry his doctor’s nephew. Margherita, driven and sensuous, has finally found her match in El Capitano, but he is woefully unavailable. As usual, it is up to the servants to sort out their messes. Little do they know that it could lead to romance for them as well.

Platform Theatre

Devised Piece/Improvisation
Platform Theatre is a genre based on a group of actors telling an epic story – the Odyssey for example – in a contained playing space of about 150cm by 250cm. The aim is to create a compact version of a staged or cinematic narrative.

Seagull Valentine

Music and lyrics by Ricardo Hizon
Book by Heath Jeremy Ivey-Law
An excerpt from a musical inspired by Chekhov’s Seagull. Set in the Louisiana Bayou a year before the Great Depression to a jazz-infused score, Seagull Valentine re-envisions the iconic scene from Chekhov’s play where a tortured artist shocks his lover with the gift of a buckshot-riddled seagull carcass.

Sovereignty

By Rolin Jones
The neighbors are acting strange and the mail is piling up, but Mrs. Elsbeth is determined to turn a blind eye. A scathing and satiric play about the people right next door.

Monologues

By Tara Meddaugh

A Nice Night Together
Samuel, a married man, is standing outside of a hotel bedroom, speaking to his recent fling, Brigit. He explains the difference in her expressing things that will make them have a nice night together and expressing things that will make them have a bad night. He’ll stick around if it’s the former. He’ll leave if it’s the latter.

Disappointing Hell
Van, a man in his 20s-30s, stands in a line of people in a kind of waiting room of Hell. He is uncomfortable, almost annoyed to be where he is. He speaks to the other people in his line.

The Bus Stop
Lawrence stands at a bus stop. It is cold. He has just been to the grocery store. He talks to a woman in her 70s or so, who is also waiting at the bus stop.

A Waste of a Perfectly Good Jellybean
Steven, speaks to his dad. Steven has just shared his Easter jelly beans with his dad who has gobbled up a handful of them all at once. Steven implores his dad to eat the jelly beans the “right” way.