Meme Girls
Malthouse Theatre
9 April 2015
Beckett Theatre
to 2 May
malthousetheatre.com.au
YouTube is only ten years old. Like Facebook and Twitter, it's already hard to imagine life without them. And enough people have now grown up not knowing that opening your life and your secrets to the world isn't strange. Meme Girls at Malthouse Theatre is about searching for identity by confiding to strangers on the internet.
Created by Stephen Nicolazzo, Ash Flanders and Marion Potts, the idea came from Flanders's 2011–12 solo show that was directed by Nicolazzo, Negative Energy Inc. For all it's self-questioning and stories about his mum, Heather, and boyfriend, Daniel, the piece was unexpectedly defined by his performance of the Horse Woman from the tv show Judge Judy.
It was astonishing. Flanders captured the heartbreak of the woman and found the pin-head spot of balance where poignancy and parody meet to create something that transcends both.
This was a drag verbatim performance of a nobody talking to a camera that doesn't care about the death of her horses!
Meme Girls is more of this and then far more.
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The full review is on AussieTheatre.com and will be published here in a few days.
Malthouse Theatre
9 April 2015
Beckett Theatre
to 2 May
malthousetheatre.com.au
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| Meme Girls. Art Simone & Ash Flanders. Photo by Pia Johnson |
YouTube is only ten years old. Like Facebook and Twitter, it's already hard to imagine life without them. And enough people have now grown up not knowing that opening your life and your secrets to the world isn't strange. Meme Girls at Malthouse Theatre is about searching for identity by confiding to strangers on the internet.
Created by Stephen Nicolazzo, Ash Flanders and Marion Potts, the idea came from Flanders's 2011–12 solo show that was directed by Nicolazzo, Negative Energy Inc. For all it's self-questioning and stories about his mum, Heather, and boyfriend, Daniel, the piece was unexpectedly defined by his performance of the Horse Woman from the tv show Judge Judy.
It was astonishing. Flanders captured the heartbreak of the woman and found the pin-head spot of balance where poignancy and parody meet to create something that transcends both.
This was a drag verbatim performance of a nobody talking to a camera that doesn't care about the death of her horses!
Meme Girls is more of this and then far more.
...
The full review is on AussieTheatre.com and will be published here in a few days.