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The YouTube Comment Orchestra single work   drama   - 90 minutes
Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 The YouTube Comment Orchestra
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'Do you read the comments on YouTube? The Last Tuesday Society sure does – and they’re inviting you to delve into this dark world of our online unconscious. The Last Tuesday Society’s intrepid artists will create brand new works from these open forums, sifting through grammatically incorrect insults, dodging trolls, finding the LOLS and perhaps even encountering unexpected pathos. Will enlightening vistas be revealed amongst the mountains of banality? Or vast plains of offensive drivel? Will this YouTube comment orchestra play beautiful music ... Or just auto-tune?

'The Last Tuesday Society regularly presents Australia’s most innovative performance-makers in pubs, warehouses, tin sheds and once even a theatre restaurant. A practice perfected over the past six years, The Last Tuesday Society has carved out a joyful niche for Melbourne’s live art, underground cabaret and left-field comedy scene.

'The YouTube Comment Orchestra is a theatrical spectacular exploiting the innocent enthusiasm, unintended surrealism, incomprehensible babble and mad manifestos of our online world to create a commentary on commentary.' (Production abstract)

Production Details

  • Presented by Malthouse Theatre and Melbourne Fringe Tower Theatre, 17-27 September 2014

    Hosted, Co-Curated and Performed by Richard Higgins

    Co-Curated, Produced and Performed by Bron Batten

    Performed and Devised by Zoey Dawson, Nicola Gunn, Mish Grigor, Grit Theatre (Tom Browne, Laura Hughes and Clare Phillips), The List Operators (Matt Kelly and Richard Higgins), Telia Nevile and Lara Thoms.'

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Works about this Work

Making Music Out of Online Invective Chris Boyd , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 22 September 2014; (p. 13)

— Review of The YouTube Comment Orchestra 2014 single work drama
Making Music Out of Online Invective Chris Boyd , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 22 September 2014; (p. 13)

— Review of The YouTube Comment Orchestra 2014 single work drama
Last amended 22 Sep 2014 10:08:52
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