The Horse's Mouth  

A FESTIVAL OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PERFORMANCE
24 NOV-17 DEC 2011

THE OLD FITZROY THEATRE
TUES-SUN 8PM

$42 FESTIVAL PASS
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SINGLE SHOW $30 ADULT/$20 CONC
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PROGRAM A. BOLTED
ZOE COOMBS MARR, PHIL SPENCER AND TIM SPENCER

PROGRAM B. HELL FOR LEATHER
JONO BURNS AND ZOE NORTON LODGE

PROGRAM C. ONE TRICK PONY
SCARLET MCGLYNN, BETTY GRUMBLE, ALEX VAUGHAN, NICK COYLE, AND LUCINDA GLEESON.

STORY CLUB ON SUNDAYS AT 8PM

27 NOV

  • Rachel Corbett
  • Rosie Stevenson
  • Patrick Lenton
  • Michael Hing
  • Zoe Norton Lodge
  • Hosted by Ben Jenkins

4 DEC

  • Cait Harris
  • Adam Yardley
  • Alice Grundy
  • Hosted by Alex Lee

11 DEC

  • James Colley
  • Mark Sutton
  • Hosted by Alex Lee

 

 

 

Artistic Director PHIL SPENCER
Producer VANESSA HUGHES
Production Stills by Cybele Malinowski

 

(A Bambina Borracha Productions in association with Tamarama Rock Surfers Theatre Company production)

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Opening Night!
Bolted Hell For Leather One Trick Pony
The Performances
TIM SPENCER
Tim Spencer Show Me Yours, I'll Show You Mine

Show Me Yours, I'll Show You Mine explores themes of integrity and happiness.

It is a conversation between Tim Spencer and a male sex worker (portrayed by Charles Purcell) about their work, the world and life in Sydney.

Their interaction is delicate, gentle and humorous.

Underlying assumptions about sex work and theatre remain veiled but provide a counterpoint to their exchange and to their relationship with the audience.

Performed by Tim Spencer & Charles Purcell.

 

PHIL SPENCER
Phil Spencer The Great Apeth

Phil has a very special friendship with his 82-year-old Nanna, Gaye.

This show is about Gaye…ohh and Mexican Wrestling, appendicitis, Victoria sponge cakes and family grief.

Performed by Phil Spencer & Maggie Blinco.

ZOE COOMBS MARR
Zoe Coombs Marr I’ve been everywhere, man.

In a moment of bravado, I moved out, shipped all my stuff to my parents place, spent my savings on a 1986 Diesel Pajero, and hit the open road. Soon I was lost and drunk and sleeping with a steak knife in my hand.

I also killed a lot of birds.

I’ve been everywhere, man; A misguided ramble across the desert on a sugar high.

ZOE NORTON LODGE
Zoe Norton Lodge This is not a Possum.

Zoe doesn't know much about nature because at her place, the outdoors were forbidden.

However household neglect and her own Matilda-esque curiosity/natural intelligence have led her to formulate a veritable dosia on possums.

She'd like you to meet her family.

JONO BURNS
Jono Burns Home

I know you need unique New York, but does unique New York need you?

When Jono's family home is sold, he journeys to the city of his dreams to study acting.

Confronting the method head on he digs up his past with a sensorial shovel and is forced to ask himself, 'if home is where the heart is - does a broken heart lead to a broken home?

EMMA MAYE GIBSON
Betty Grumble Betty Grumble

Betty Grumble is a former child beauty pageant star, beauty queen and burlesque heroine.

Grumble's performances promise to both titillate and terrify, a full glitz monster she lives and breathes by beauty offering forth assumptions about the female body that violently unravel in a flurry of feathers, fans and glitter.

Is she woman or beast? Babe or bitch?

You decide.

ALEX VAUGHAN
Alex Vaughan Les & Eileen

(Photographic Project)

This series is about confronting something we all face.

These images are a selection from a personal project photographed over two months in June and July 2010.

Les is 95 and Eileen 96.

Their journey started in 1945 as they walked by each other on Archer Street in Chatswood, Sydney, Australia.

They shared a life together for the next 65 years.

NICK COYLE
Nick Coyle Archaeopteryx

nothing, god, the earth, demons, dinosaurs, ARCHAEOPTERYX, birds, angels, the sky, god, nothing.

SCARLET MCGLYNN
Scarlet McGlynn

R.S.P.W.B.

R.S.P.W.B (Rebecca and Scarlet’s Private Writing Book) is a very special artefact.

I recently discovered it whilst cleaning out my Oma’s house.

Filled with hot goss from the locker room, updates of Beverly Hills 90210 and pre-teen musings on life, love and Boyz II Men.

17 years later, I revisit this tattered old scrapbook to see what kind of girl I was then, and what kind of woman I am now. 

LUCINDA GLEESON
Lucinda Gleeson

Mapping the Meeting Place

Walter Burley Griffin has a lot to answer for...Mapping the Meeting Place is a dark watery tale from deepest suburbia.

Design by Vanessa Hughes

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