#perth fringe

Perth Fringe at night was so pretty 🌈

No but seriously for anyone in Perth over the next couple of days because it is an hour forty of good fun, some laughs, a bit of cereal, salsa and the end of the world. The fringe page can be found https://www.fringeworld.com.au/whats_on/event/an_inordinate_number_of_steves/77abe8a0-12c7-44e8-8cde-82b1dce8eebe/

(if any of my Perth followers are interested we are performing at Fringe during the first weekend of February and it’d be cool if you came link for tickets here)

Follow the link and buy this lady’s album, because she’s amazing and talented and lovely.

Ya'll should check out my second review on Rory Lowe, a Brit who rapped after inhaling helium and it's the best thing I've seen all year.

I hope that where ever you live, you get to enjoy the incredible vibe of your home town's own Fringe. It might not be happening today, or tomorrow. You'll probably be enjoying your Fringe while I'm hibernating in winter. But whenever and wherever you enjoy your first/next Fringe, I hope you have a hoot and a half like I am right now!

So, apparently I haven't posted about this. What. Oh children of tumblr, I've been making a thing! With other people! A theatrerie, artsy, music... A fringe thing! Which is quite appropriate, considering my last post was about Edinburgh Fringe. I have been back in Perth for two months and two days and it's been a whole lot of Fringe. Let me tell you a story. Or if you're not in the mood for a story, spoilers, here's the facebook event: www.facebook.com/events/342853489254112/ A long time ago, about 5 metres away, a friend picked me up at around midnight to record an audition song in her little studio that has since been closed. I made a post about it, in fact. sholalee.tumblr.com/post/86199880321/recently-a-friend-of-mine-asked-if-id-play-guitar A shot time before I got on an aircraft to be hurtled across the world, she called me again, saying, 'So, I have a crazy idea. Crazier than that time I picked you up at midnight to make an audition tape. Do you want to make a fringe show with me?' I said yes. She did mysterious paperwork things while I was in Europe. She wrote the blurb while I was in Budapest; I drew the promotional image in a hostel in Prague. Neither of us yet knew what the show was about. I didn't tell facebook that. Feel privileged. That's the first and second image up there. A few days after I got back to reality (oh there goes gravity) I was in an empty high school theatre relearning how to play like a three year old. We would get homework like, make up three stories about things that happened to the boy and girl, and we'll transform them into fantasy. Maja (that friend) and our wonderful director, Warwick, had since dreamed up the thread of the story, in The Moon (a cafe), which can still be found holding its tapestry together. It's about Ash and Harlan, siblings united in fantasy to escape their small town reality. They have a pen pal, East, a prince from across the great sea, that sends them letters of grand adventures in bottles. Ash yearns for that brighter reality, Harlan needs their den of wonders here. The sea witch is trying to warn them. They quest to write the final, perfect letter. I've been really enjoying dipping my glittery toe in theatre. There's this "something" that's created between a live performed and audience that I'm quite familiar with from playing live music, but it happens here too. More than the sum of its parts. It's very exciting. There's a great host of talented humans now devoting their craft, time and grey hairs towards this. Animator David Thierry, Director Warwick Doddrell, actors Daniel Buckle and Maja Liwszyc, the jack ass of all trades me, sound designer Jesse Bach (he taught me the jack ass expression), costume design by Sarah Mikula, Sam Luckman a great photographer and great friend who I describe as "the one who looks like a pirate". I'm going to get back to painting the final versions of image 3 so out animator can make them appear out of the darkness. If you're in Western Australia, come see =D. If not, enjoy anyway. The last image I feel is a good metaphor for my life right now. Artistic and chaotic afloat, but wondering how I got there in the sun.