Drink Pepsi, Bitch performed and written by Eddie Perfect and Tom Wright.
Directed by Tom Healey. Music performed by Ben Hendry, Dustin McLean,
Vincenzo Ruberto. Beckett @ The Malthouse Theatre until October 2. Bremen ,
directed by Michael Cammilleri, North Melbourne Festival Hub, Lithuanian
Club Main Theatre until October 1.
Apologies for my lateness this week. Balancing this blog with everything
else I do sometimes proves a tightrope act I can't quite manage, especially
when I am bitten by yet another novel. I warn all budding writers: novels
are a serious drug. You might begin with harmless poems and little
playlets, thinking that you can stop any time you like, but before you know
it you're trapped in the tentacles of addiction, sacrificing your life to
feed your corrosive habit...
Currently, I am writing four novels. Even I think that is excessive. But
despite being manacled to the computer, I managed to get out to a couple of
Melbourne Fringe shows this week. (Eddie Perfect's show is certainly listed
as part of the Fringe, even though, as he said himself, the lighting is too
good.)
Drink Pepsi, Bitch! is fun with razor blades. Here is our multi-mediated
corporatised world in all its inglorious unreality, from alienated cybersex
to call centres to commodified celebrity. It's the universe of Michael
Jackson, Britney Spears, Oprah Winfrey and celebrity disaster journalism,
where our unfulfilled consumerist desires flash and crackle like sick
hallucinations above a black abyss of fear.
Read more at http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
All the best
Alison
Alison Croggon
Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
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