Month: March 2016

Five Good Reasons To See…The Mighty Little Puppet Show!

  1. It has puppets!

Like the title suggests The Mighty Little Puppet Show will have puppets in it…but these puppets are like nothing you’ve seen before.

What’s unique about our puppets is that they are custom-built, by the extremely talented people at The Puppet Workshop.

Our puppets (called The Ritas) are brightly coloured and blank-faced, we’ve also had large selection of eyes & noses build that can be attached and removed to The Ritas whenever we want.

Meaning we can create new and interesting puppet characters for every performance.

  2. It is an improvised show!

Yup…every show will be improvised so no two show will be the same. The Ritas were specifically created because the Mighty Little Puppet Show is completely improvised.

We wanted our puppets have the potential to be just as spontaneous as the scenes they will be in.

  3. We have a stellar line-up of Special Guest Stars!

We are so fortunate to have some of Melbourne’s most respected, popular & most experienced performers joining the Ritas on stage throughout the whole season. Each night we will have one Special Guest Star.

Our guest include:

–Geoff Paine (Neighbours, The Adventures of Lano & Woodley, Spontaneous Broadway).

–Emily Taylor (Award winner actor, the face of COLES, regular with Impromptunes)

–Heath McIvor (Award winning performer, Randy from Sammy J & Randy)

–Lliam Amor (Senior member of Impro Melbourne, the face of Choosi Life Insurance)

–Ross Daniels (Senior member of Impro Melbourne & Spontaneous Broadway)

–Sarah Kinsella (Senior member of Impro Melbourne)

–Russell Fletcher (Only Australian to appear on Whose Line is it Anyway?, The Adventures of Lano & Woodley, Spontaneous Broadway)

  4. We have an amazing troupe of impro-puppeteers!

For this show we handpicked performers from the Melbourne Impro community who were known to have experience working with puppets or at the very least had a strong desire to.

It takes an intensely focused performer to improvise while operating a puppet and it takes a very humble, generous performer to improvise in a scene with one.

We’ve really lucked out.

We have: Amy Moule, Michelle Nussey, Scott McAteer, Caitlin Yolland, Petra Elliott, Matt Saraceni & Rob Lloyd.

  5. We have a wonderful host!

Mister David Innes will be hosting the entire run of The Mighty Little Puppet Show. After receiving glowing reviews for his hosting work at the Doctor Who Festival 2016 (Sydney), where he had to deal with Daleks, Sontarans & The Mire…we figured he’d fit right in wrangling a whole heap of improvising puppets.

 

The Mighty Little Puppet Show is running Thursday March 24th to Sunday April 3rd at The Upstairs Lounge @ Hairy Sista. Show starts 7:30pm. No shows Monday. Tickets can be purchased at:

http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2016/season/shows/the-mighty-little-puppet-show

5 GOOD REASONS To See Quiz in My Pants: Hardcore Trivia

1. Cocks. Big uncut cocks.

2. Informative and entertaining quiz format hilarity.

3. A couple more cocks.

4. A chance to witness two performers “as victims burning at the stake,

signalling each other through the flames”. – A. Artaud

5. Clunge

Quiz in My Pants is on from 22 March to 3 April at the Butterfly Club.

For more information go to the MICF website:

http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2016/season/shows/quiz-in-my-

pants-hardcore-trivia-always-working-artists

5 Good Reasons TO see IMPROVILICIOUS: THE IMPROVISED GUIDE TO THE INTERNET

1. Learn how to surf the World Wide Interweb

2. It’s all made up

3. Cassie is weird looking

4. Ben Rulez

5. It’s a fun way to spend 50 minutes of school holidays.

Improvilicious: The Improvised Guide to the Internet is a show for big kids (10+)  and its on from 26 March to 10 April at Melbourne Town Hall.

For more information go to the MICF website

http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2016/season/shows/improvilicious-the-improvised-guide-to-the-internet

5 Good Reasons to See Paul Ayre The Unenduring Depths of Your Soul: To the Tune of Michael Bolton

1. If you want to hear a harsh skeptics story of his journey into the Soul

2. If you love the music of Michael Bolton

3. If you really hate the music of Michael Bolton

4. If your life is great, but ultimately hollow and disconnected, and you’re struggling to find out if the experiences that poets used to describe actually do exist, so you don’t have to just continue to bore through the weighty miasma of being

5. If you like jokes!

Paul Ayre The Unenduring Depths of Your Soul: To the Tune of Michael Bolton

For more Info see the MICF website http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2016/season/shows/the-unenduring-depths-of-your-soul-to-the-tune-of-michael-bolton-paul-ayre

5 Good reasons to see Jeeves Verma: He’s Just Not That India

1- You have parents that drive you crazy and you need to vent vicariously through Jeeves’s comedy

2- You left a potentially high-paying career to “follow your dreams” and you need validation for your choices

3- You have an ethnic background that doesn’t in anyway influence you as an Australian but everyone else assumes it does.

4- You’ve suspected for a long time that endorphins are a myth because no one could ever feel that good after killing themselves at the gym. Also they sound like they might actually be a mythical creature… Endorphins.

5- You love cats.

 

Jeeves Verma performs He’s Just Not That India at Belleville

For more info go to the MICF website:

http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2016/season/shows/he-s-just-not-that-india-jeeves-verma

5 Good Reasons to see Clara Cupcakes in Hot Patootie

1. It’s a choose-your-own-adventure show where the audience picks what they want to see in the show. It’s like Goosebumps without all the ghosts and slime monsters and stuff. Or is it…….

2. It’s actually two shows! That’s right. Circus and Hollywood. I wrote two shows like a big dummy. But both of them are real fun and good and you get to pick which one you want to see at the start. You’re in charge! Which is not at all intimidating for me AHAHAHAHA oh god.

3. Hot Patootie is fun to say. Go yell it at the top of your lungs in the middle of the street, “HOT PATOOTIE”. See? So much fun!

4. There are animal hats. So many animal hats.

5. They are very silly shows but also fun and meaningful so you’ll feel super nice after you leave. Like a big ol’ warm hug from your favourite crazy Auntie.

Clara Cupcakes performs Hot Patootie at The Butterfly Club from March 22 – April 3

*note it starts Tues 22nd March.

http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2016/season/shows/hot-patootie-clara-cupcakes