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Yana Alana - Tears Before Bedtime: A Live Art Exhibitionist

21 – 25 Jan 2015 Much-loved cabaret provocateur and divine diva, Yana Alana, has not slept for weeks, Join her in bed for an intimate live art experience as a handful of lucky fans help get her through the night. Accompanied by the eccentric, steadfast Bec Beat of Circus Oz Fame, you will be privy to Yana's fantasies, nightmares, hopes, dreams and dirty laundry. Set in a gallery space where all of her dysfunctions are clearly on display, this live art exhibitionist invites you into her heart, so that you can repair it! Tears Before Bedtime is best experienced in the comfort of your pyjamas, onesey or nightie.

Warnings: . Adult Concepts and close proximity . If you are uncomfortable with close proximity to people you will find this show as difficult as Yana does.

Tix: https://midsumma.org.au/event/tears-before-bed Venue: Northcote Town Hall

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Camille O'Sullivan: Changeling 22 – 24 January 2015 Fierce, amusing and “dangerously fragile” Camille O’Sullivan transforms each song she performs into an intense emotional and theatrical experience, inextricably drawing her audience into a world illuminated by the dark and the light.

Performing her album Changeling, O’Sullivan’s interpretation of works by Radiohead, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, David Bowie, Arcade Fire and more have stunned audiences around the world and established her with an enviable international reputation.

Drawn to narrative songs, O’Sullivan treats each as a monologue; inhabiting them like a chameleon on stage she gives all aspects of herself – the fragility, the toughness, the fun and the anger.

Experience this magnetic song-stress in full flight in the intimate confines of the Fairfax Studio.

Tix: http://www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/whats-on/popular-music/camille-osu... Venue: The Arts Centre Fairfax Studio

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An Evening With Amanda Palmer: The Art Of Asking Book Signing Fri January 23 2015 Doors Open 6.30pm

Join musician, performer, and best-selling author, Amanda Palmer at the Thornbury Theatre for an evening of music, discussion, Q and A, and readings from her new book, The Art of Asking. The book will be available for purchase at the venue, and book-signing will commence immediately after the performance.

Tix: http://thethornburytheatre.com/event/evening-amanda-palmer-art-asking-bo... Venue: The Thornbury Theatre

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AFFLUENZA: A late-night riches-to-rags synth-pop cabaret 22 Jan – 8 Feb In Affluenza Will Hannagan transforms from kale-crunching North Fitzroy twat to Hollywood golden boy gone bad. He's LiLo meets Miley, only gayer: a drug-addled clubkid on the road to redemption after a vacuous life of excess. A Disney child star, a pin-up of Uncle Sam's, corrupted by the Pop machine. In one tell-all interview, Robert Ten Eyk, Footscray's finest turned hard hitting talk show host to the stars, questions him on the fame, the abuse, the scandal and finally, the redemption. But while Will is just trying to win back some public kudos and promote his new album, Affluenza (an ode to decadence and decay), Robbie's sole object is great television. No matter what the cost.

Will has been writing cabaret since he was fourteen. Playful, political, promiscuous, at its core his work is an interrogation of contemporary ideological divide masked in the escapist sensation of intoxicating pop spectacle. Opulent but minimal, this promises to be his most ambitious work to date. You can follow the creation of Affluenza online now in Will's new VLOG, We Love You Mr Hannagan for all the behind-the-scenes shenanigans.

Tix: https://midsumma.org.au/event/affluenza Venue: The Butterfly Club

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Paul Capsis in Little Bird 29 January – 4 February 2015 The Brothers Grimm meets Ziggy Stardust.

A dark fairy-tale for grown-ups, a song cycle, a thrilling piece of solo performance, Little Bird is a gripping story of how people can transform many times over the course of a lifetime.

Little Bird looks at the journey of young boy, Wren, from his parents’ isolated cottage all the way to the lights of the big city. Along the way a series of startling transformations occur, blurring the lines of identity, gender and reality as Wren searches for self, for love and for a place to belong.

Little Bird has been created especially for Australian stage legend Paul Capsis by multi-award winning playwright Nicki Bloom (Tender, Land and Sea) and features songs by Cameron Goodall (The Audreys) and Quentin Grant (When The Rain Stops Falling) who collaborated on the Adelaide Cabaret Festival hit, You Me and the Bloody Sea. The production promises to be a rich and powerful theatrical experience.

Drawing upon fable, mythology and song to create a compelling dramatic and musical journey, Little Bird will leave you transported, uplifted and with tears in your eyes.

Tix: http://www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/whats-on/theatre-drama/paul-capsis... Venue: Arts Centre Melbourne

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Dolly Diamond Under A Big Top 29 – 31 Jan A flamboyant and illustrious career on the stage has led Dolly Diamond to this, her most exciting Midsumma show to date. This year Dolly lifts the lid on a number of her untold stories and secrets - like the 9 months she spent with the circus - and her constant need to work with penniless amateurs.