In 2013 we are offering three productions with different touring models, showcasing the best of La Mama.

La Mama Mobile aims to work with presenters to provide affordable, high quality and at times challenging work that

promotes audience development and exchange across metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria.

Written by Peta BradyPerformed by Danielle Carter and Peta BradyDirected by Sue JonesDramaturgy by Catherine Hill

“The script ricochets . 4/5 stars ****It’s brilliantly acted, heaving with postmodern alienation, Sapphic lust and a poignant search for connection in a world of illusion.”Cameron Woodhead. The Age

STATUS UPDATEStatus Update: A Facebook Tale.

Nominated for Best New Writing and Best Female Actor at the 2010 Greenroom Awards

Coral is a paraplegic, a result of a vicious attack. Eve is a paranoid agoraphobic brought closer to Coral through their mutual love of macabre poetry updates. Love blossoms until Eve suggests meeting. Problem. Both fear leaving their houses and Coral is not technically Adam, the boy she has been masquerading as. Coral suggests meeting up in ‘Bewtopia,’ a souped-up internet fantasy land; a combination of Second Life and Warcraft. A place you can be who you want to be and leave all your baggage and bodies behind. But do they follow? Can we really escape ourselves?

Status Update takes us on an hilarious ride as Coral and Eve try and unravel the lies that lead to its shocking conclusion.

“I urge you all to go and see Status Update at La Mama. With its killer script and excellent performances, it’s the best piece of theatre I’ve seen at Fringe so far.”Richard Watts, 3RRR

“LOL – heaps! Peta Brady and Danielle Carter work together with impeccable comic timing. A beautifully realised piece of wholly relevant contemporary theatre. Very entertaining.”Suzanne Sandow, Stage Whispers

“You were shocked when it was over because you were so caught up in it. Facebook will never be the same to me again”.Sarah Black, Year 11 Student

A man starts to build his own coffin but decides to turn it into a raft. He is struggling to unravel his emotional and mental knots so he can leave his grandchild one simple important piece of advice. But is it possible to give useful advice to anyone but yourself? And is being negative a neg-ative? Dawn is coming: soon the tide turns and it´s time to go.

Written and performed by award winning actor and composer Ben Grant, The Shrink And Swell Of Knots is a show filled with music, ideas and struggle that will keep you thinking long after the hour is over.

The Shrink And Swell Of Knots is intellectually dense but physically simple. A man enters the empty space dragging the “set”: 12 pieces of timber and 12 pieces of rope of varying age, size and colour. Rope and wood drag him down while the past and the future wrestle in his mind.

It is a show about struggle, death, negativity, conservation, the usefulness of giving advice and how to live a good life, explored through a shifting prism of plain speaking, poetry and song, and the metaphor of knots: knots of rope, knots in wood, the pun on “not” and nautical speed.

The Shrink And Swell Of Knots is a fresh, challenging and above all entertaining experience. The mix of topics and styles means the show engages audiences of all ages and backgrounds. It is created specifically to bump in simply to any kinds of intimate venue. The Shrink And Swell Of Knots is surprising, thought-provoking world-class theatre.

Created and performed by Nicci Wilks, Clare Bartholomew & Derek Ives Directed by Susie DeeComposed by Jethro WoodwardComedy Consultant: Stephen BurtonLighting Designer: Marko Respondeck

“Derek Ives, Nicci Wilks and Clare Bartholomew are arguably three of the finest Australian contemporary clown performers working today.” Mike Finch - Artistic Director, Circus Oz

We!3! We!3! is a one-hour twisted dark comedy about prejudice, suspicion of ‘other’ and the horror of the ‘unknown stranger’.

A profound but visually simple work, deeply rooted in physical and black comedy that attacks and questions values and beliefs that are the lynch pins of current Australian society and psyche. The mocking evilness of the buffoon, overlaid with the western clown’s traditional innocence, creates an environment which transforms unspeakable subject matter, and makes it palatable.

Nothing is sacred. All is profane. We!3! is a nasty piece of work.

Performed by highly skilled comedians Derek Ives, Clare Bartholomew & Nicci Wilks.

We!3! takes the craft of clown and dramatically slices, cutting it open to expose the dark, but playful underbelly of buffoon. Thus creating an explosion of mirth fed by the joy of being evil. Drenched in the blood of buffoon, but washed with the innocence of clown, society’s sacred cows (religion, family values, gender stereotypes, traditional moral codes), its unwritten taboos (racism, genocide, paedophilia, homophobia), and it’s vanities (plastic surgery, beauty ideals, gluttony, machismo) are dragged to the altar of black comedy and eviscerated, hung, drawn and quartered for the edification, amazement and amusement of all.

MODEL 1: Tried and Tested

Status Update by Peta Brady

After a successful season in 2010, this is a La Mama favourite. Aimed specifically at school audiences, ‘Tried and Tested’ comes with reviews, teachers notes and the La Mama guarantee.

MODEL 2: 1 Man, 100 Seats, 1000 Dollars

The Shrink and Swell of Knots by Ben Grant

This show was a highlight in La Mama’s ‘Exploration’ season last year, and comes highly recommended. It is available to tour immediately after its full season in August this year. Avoiding all remount costs, the ‘1 Man, 100 Seats, 1000 Dollars’ model is designed for touring to small theatre spaces.

MODEL 3: Try before you Buy

We! 3! By Nicci Wilks, Clare Bartholomew and Derek Ives

Presenters are invited to a highly anticipated ‘Exploration’ in December this year. This show will then be available immediately after the full La Mama season in 2013 avoiding all remount costs. In the ‘Try before you Buy’ model, La Mama hopes to work with presenters to select future touring works.

For all enquiries please contact Caitlin at caitlin@lamama.com.au

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