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PUTTING THE SPOTLIGHT ON AUSTRALIAN TALENT
StageArtXposed inaugural year delivered a unique festival celebrating new and
established artists in a plethora of genres. 8 handpicked shows delivering Australia's finest.
GIRLS UNINTERUPTED 'Good Value'
By Nicolette Minster & Louise Joy McCrae
GOOD VALUE is purely sketch comedy, a testament to their skill as storytellers and character comedians. Using sketch that’s inventive, insightful, delighting and confronting, GOOD VALUE follows the journey of a single dollar coin. Each character tells their own story but also serves to investigate the value of the coin, as it passes from hand to hand and continues its circulation.
Parody and satire feature heavily in the non linear narrative that includes a musical comedy trio, baby beauty queens, historical emotional eaters and investment bankers.
The pair have been likened to comedy duo French and Saunders and they warmly embrace this comparison. Other sources of comic inspiration include Jane Turner and Gina Riley, Abbot and Costello, Flight of the Concords, Curb your Enthusiasm and Black Adder.
Sketch Comedy
Musical
SUGARTOWN
By Katie Weston, Katy Roose & Dean Gourley
Sugartown is a; Detective, Film-Noir Comic-Book story with a modern, “Quentin Tarantino” narrative - set sometime in the present day in a “Gotham City” style metropolis. Starring a Porn Star, a Drug Dealer, an Undercover Cop, a Mistress and a Murderer. This show has everything! Now in it's final stages of workshops and having returned from a stint in Sydney StageArtXposed is thrilled to be assisting in getting this show to Melbourne audiences!
Starring - Kiara Kieser, Eley May, Hayley Burdon, Pru WIlson & Kaela Brushett
A story depicting the journey of women and how they, as a group, define the importance of friendship. Through their strong and distinct personalities, which are reflections of nature’s elements, we discover where their strengths and weakness’ lie. When an event unfolds that threatens their bond, all aspects of their friendship are tested. This leaves them questioning; are they stronger as a group or better off alone?
WILD EAGLES FLY ALONE
By Trent Harlow & Jayden Hicks - Redback Dance Co
Dance
Cabaret
RUMOUR HAS IT
Sixty Minutes Inside Adele - Starring Naomi Price
"Sassy, hilarious, poignant and gob-smackingly good... A raucous and rollicking performance that would make Adele proud." Scene Magazine
Youʼre invited to spend an evening with Adele: Grammy goddess, young mum, and pottymouthed everywoman. For the first time in Melbourne, Adele rolls in the deep down under, spilling intimate details about life on the road, love on the rocks, and the prick who took a sledge hammer to her heart...
Rumour Has It: Sixty Minutes Inside Adele marries a modern-day music legend with one of Queenslandʼs best-loved musical theatre imports, British chanteuse Naomi Price. Following critically acclaimed seasons in Sydney, Brisbane, and on the Gold Coast, this wickedly satirical new cabaret rolls into Melbourne for three performances only as part of StageArtXposed.
SWAN DIVE
By Julia Sutherland - Directed by Paul Watson - Inspired by the lyrics of Leonard Cohen and Ani Difranco
Play Reading
Jay goes to the coast. To be alone. To drop the costume of his perfect life. His 20 year self-made career. His high-rise apartment. His stunning wife. Crystal's terrified of water. Won't go within miles of an ocean view. Safe in the city. Working overtime. All the time climbing walls. It's what we do. The ocean is Jay's solitude. His mother. His nemesis. His reflection. His whore. Enter Suzanna Santiago, whirlwind gypsy who is all this and more.
Where do you go when you've climbed to the top, and the rules and the glass have been flipped around? What do you do when you stare out to sea, and you see that the only way free is straight down?
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HIGH AS A KITE
By Anthony Costanzo & Nicholas Christo
A revue celebrating the nights we can't remember and the mornings we'd rather forget.
A five hand new music theatre work by Anthony Costanzo (LIFE'S A CIRCUS) and Nicholas Christo (THE FABULOUS FRANCES FAYE IN AUSTRALIA) the piece is a roller coaster ride exploring the joys and jabs of getting high. The office Christmas party, the friends’ birthday drinks that went horribly wrong. You know what we're talking about. The search for connection, the search for meaning, the search for escape and the search for a good dealer.
MELBA
By Nicholas Christo
Dramatic Operetta
MELBA is a dramatic operetta which is set against the backdrop of the world’s greatest opera houses. It follows a headstrong, young, woman as she pursues a life of independence for herself and for her child far away from the hands of an abusive husband. That young woman just happens to be Nellie Melba.
Charting her meteoric rise from humble colonial origins to reigning supreme as the world’s first female rock star MELBA takes audiences on a journey of love and sacrifice through the glittering stages and palaces of Europe.
We watch a single mother’s rebellion and heartbreaking responsibility as she desperately tries to free herself from the clutches of a controlling spouse in Australia.
The ‘trial of the century’ that then ensues irrevocably rocks high society all the way up to and including the French Royal Family with shattering repercussions for all.
Based on the award winning biography by Ann Blainey, MELBA is a fusing of human drama and high opera directed by Stuart Maunder (DUSTY, MY FAIR LADY) with new music by composer Johannes Luebbers and with book and lyrics by Nicholas Christo.
Cabaret
LIFE OF PIAF
Starring Dahlia Dior
Based on the fascinating life of the most famous French musical icon of them all – Edith Piaf – The Little Sparrow of Paris. The public never seem to tire of hearing her wonderful songs. This tiny waif-like lady with the indomitable spirit and most extraordinary powerful voice, thrilled music lovers around the world, singing of pain and torment, as well as love and dreams. Piaf was an inspiration to millions and a universal symbol of courage and love. Next year is the 50th anniversary of her death, and is the ideal time to celebrate her passionate life. The show includes not only her most well-known songs, but also important songs that reflect different stages of her life, loves, and successful career.
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