The year that was, in our original home The Workers Club in Fitzroy.
2016
#1 – January
Rosie Clynes and Hayley Bracken – Bluette. Rosie Clynes and Hayley Bracken performing a scene from Bracken’s song-cycle play Bluette, which examines the relationship between femaleness, hospitality work and performativity. 2. Grub Theatre Collective – Planning Atlantis. Are you feeling good? The good way? Feel better, a better way: Docklands Homes and Living. Where the water waterways are…
#2 – February
Guest Artist – Tom Lew Tom is one of those soft headed kind of atheists, like a gently mashed sweet potato. He likes to think about aliens and DNA. This one time he cried listening to an ad for carpets. He works as a doctor in a hospital in Melbourne and is planning on doing…
#3 – March
Guest Artist: Magic Steven Magic Steven. He is a Melbourne-based performer whose work has been described in many ways, including autobiographical storytelling, deadpan not-comedy, guided meditation and long-form beat poetry. He has performed as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Melbourne Fringe Festival, and more recently at White Night, Liquid Architecture Festival,…
#4 – April
Guest Artist: Harley Hefford. Rosie Clynes, Justin Nott, Danni Ray, Ellie Kent, and Chris Fieldus – Can’t Be Tamed We invite the audience to fall into the kaleidoscopic and strange mind of MILEY CYRUS: What is it to be a child star under Disney while discovering you own sexuality? What is it like to so publicly…
#5 – May
Guest Artist – Liv Satchell Matilda Dixon-Smith – FOUND Tess and Levi are lost in the bush. Then they find Jim. What would it take to make you leave the world you know; and what would you say to bring someone back? FOUND, structured as a series of conversational vignettes, explores adolescence as performance and…
#6 – June/EWF
For our June event we collaborated with the Emerging Writers’ Festival! Alexandra Macalister-Bills – Pieces “At some stage you will react and you may not be able to predict when and how.” Pockets has locked himself on one side of the door. Sam and Amo are on the other. 37 hours and no contact. What…
#7 – July
Saverio Minutolo – Griffin: An Act of Theatrism.How does an invisible person suddenly become visible? How does our unconscious perception of a normality around us suddenly turn into a disturbing discovery of an “abnormal” presence? Griffin – An Act of Theatrism is a theatre intervention that aims to explore the precarious appearance of anonymous humans…
#8 – August
1. ‘At the end of the alphabet at the bottom of the sea’, or, simply, ‘scratch’ by Fiona Spitzkowsky ‘At the end of the alphabet at the bottom of the sea’, or, simply, ‘Scratch’ is a break-up story. But it’s also an interrogation of language, intimacy and madness, carried out through two characters, five…
#9 – September
In the flurry of Fringe, we cuddled up in the slightly-smaller but utterly delightful Aeso Studio for these tasty offerings: Red White and Blue Polls, by Jordy Shea ‘Obama is leaving. It’s been pretty straight forward. Short, back and sides. Bush never knew what he wanted. Who knows what Donny and Hill are thinkin’. Rehearsal…
#10/11/12 – christmasbonanza
Our final event for 2016 was our SMALL AND LOUD CHRISTMAS BONANZA. This was a three-night festival running Tuesday 29 November – Thursday 1 December. It was full of hot new art. Tuesday Nov 29 (7-8.30pm) Jean Tong during the ghost festival, the gates of hell open up and ‘hungry ghosts’ roam. they are the forgotten…
Small and Loud 