AustLit
Latest Issues
AbstractHistoryArchive Description
Feel, a young man, wants to mop for a living in Backward by Twenty, where mopping is a high art form. Instead, he is forced to work in a take-away medicine shop until he discovers the Liquid Ooze, which removes pig fat from the floor, and goes on to tour the subways of the world.
(Abstract provided by author.)
Production Details
-
Read at the Women's Gallery (Fitzroy, Melbourne) at In Between Cultures (organised by Lisa D'Onofrio), part of the New Wave Festival.
Readers: Pep Zoiti (Feel), Amanda Di Carlantonio (Mia), Maria Simonetto (Ma), Sally Wood (Nan), and Kate Wood (Hari).
Performed at Theatreworks during the Melbourne Comedy Festival, 22-24 April 1995.
Produced by the author and directed with the assistance of the actors.
Music: Andrew Rusker and Damien Ballinger.
Graphics: Steven and Felix Zoiti.
Cast members: Natalie Carr (Mia), Justin Smith (Feel), Tatyana des Fontaine Burns (Hari, Ms Sardine, Reporter, Mia's Crony, and Greta Garbo), and Julie O'Reilly (Nan and Mr Lard).
