Thursday 2 February, 2012
We have a new website!!!
It's pretty much just as shithouse as the old one, but it's easier to update, so there's something you can look forward to. #*(_*$(_*$R_#$)#_$)#_$090
We have a new show coming up! Read about it >>> HURRRR <<<
Here things that have happened in the last year:
-- We did a development on "Little Mercy" with STC, as part of their Rough Drafts program. It was great.
-- We performed at Falls Festival to a bunch of intensely confused bogans.
-- We applied for lots of things that we didn't get. For obvious reasons.
That's all. Xx
Sunday 1 January, 2012
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ABOUT SISTERS GRIMM
Sisters Grimm are Ash Flanders & Declan Greene. We formed in 2006, and for the last five years have been making theatre that is cheap, accessible, and extremely faggy.
Here are some things people have said about us:
"Flanders and Greene create queer gross-out plays that are hilarious, inane, intentionally shithouse, and often vile beyond belief." THE AGE
"Extremely important - albeit insane - theatre." INPRESS
"You will soon come to hate them. And their SHRIEKING." THE SCOTSMAN
Ash Flanders is a graduate of the Ballarat Arts Academy (formerly BAPA). In 2007 he performed Adam Cass one-man play I LOVE YOU, BRO, which then toured to the Malthouse, the Spiegeltent, London's Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe and the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, where Ash was nominated for Best Male Actor. His solo cabaret work NEGATIVE ENERGY INC recently completed a season at Theatreworks for their Midsumma "Men At Work" program.
Declan Greene is a writer and theatre-maker, whose works include A BLACK JOY, MOTH and POMPEII, L.A. His plays have been performed at La Mama, Malthouse, the Sydney Opera House, and the Brisbane Powerhouse. He has recieved the Malcolm Robertson Prize, the ANPC Bursary, the Green Room Award for 'Best New Original Work', and has been twice awarded by the R.E. Ross Trust. He also performs drag under the stupid name 'GLASS OV WAHTAH', for which he has recieved little to no acclaim.
FAT CAMP.
A DAMP, CAMP, COMEDY.
It's a tough and lonely life for an overweight girl. Makaila Goldstein's parents are dead, boys wont make eye contact, and she has to wash herself with a pack of baby wipes. Until one day, Makaila gets the opportunity of a lifetime: three weeks at the nation's number one fat camp! SEE WHERE THIS IS GOING?!?!?!?!!
Once at Camp Jolly she attracts new friends like a fat man attracts skin infections. New BFFs by the TONNE. All is going well until the camp leader, Jed Gristle, starts gaining weight and makes the shocking discovery that fat equals contagious! OMG!!! It's an OBESITY EPIDEMIC!!!! (get it?) Will Makaila find true love? Can Delia, the sinewy and psychotic ex-model, save the campers from their flabby fate? And if so, who will save the girls from Delia? -- You? I guess well just wait and see
THE SISTERHOOD:
Performers: JENNIFER DOUGLAS, ASH FLANDERS, KILORAN HISCOCK, NICK KASCHKE, GILLIAN MULHOLLAND, DIANA NGUYEN, GILLIAN PERRY, SHANNON WOODFORD
Directed by DECLAN GREENE
Set Design by KAT CHISHKOVSKY
Costume Design by KELLY AITKEN
Lighting Design by ABI GOUGH
Make Up Design by THEA LAIDLAW
Stage Managed by JESS LEE
Video & Dance Choreography ALETHEA JONES
Promotional material designed by MATT PAVICH
Production photography by CLARYSSA HUMENNYJ-JAMESON
SEASON:
7 - 19 AUGUST, 2006
MECHANIC'S INSTITUTE PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE
CNR GLENLYON RD & SYDNEY RD, BRUNSWICK
REVIEWS:
"It's probably not to everyones taste, but I thought Fat Camp was the funniest thing I've seen on stage all year. [...] Flanders and Greene are a breath of weird smelling fresh air in the Melbourne theatre scene. Personally, I cant wait to see what these lovable loonies come up with next." INPRESS
"Fat Camp is cruel and idiotic and crass. And it had the first-night audience gasping and howling with guilty laughter. [...] Enjoy Sisters Grimm while we have them." HERALD SUN
MOMMIE & THE MINISTER.
A HOMICIDAL HIGH-CAMP THRILLER.
Edmund and Harriet Lovely are your average six-year-olds. Except they live in a basement, play with rats, and are in their late twenties. Locked downstairs by their demented Mommie, the "children" have waited twenty years to meet "the Minister"....
Could murder be their only escape?
Featuring ASH FLANDERS, MATT HICKEY, GILLIAN PERRY
and GERARD ANTHONY as "Mommie"
Costume design by JASON CHENG
Promotional material designed by JACQUI HINE
SEASONS:
10 - 20 MAY, 2007
LA MAMA THEATRE
FARADAY ST, CARLTON
26 FEB - 9 MARCH, 2008
Basement of BIG STAR RECORDS
AS PART OF ADELAIDE FRINGE FESTIVAL
JULY 31 - AUGUST 26, 2008
UNDERBELLY
AS PART OF EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL
"Greene directs the show with a deft hand, maintaining a swift page and dynamic rhythm. The performances by Flanders and Perry are delectable... Funny, funny, funny! Go see it." HERALD SUN
" * * * * What is Fringe about if not really weird theatrical experiences done really well? [...] For those with a bent for high-camp gore kitsch with a John Waters flavour, this is your show." THE ADVERTISER (Adelaide)
"Out of control in the bad-taste stakes. Top drawer trash.... A must-see." THE STAGE (Edinburgh)
BUMTOWN.
AN EPIC TRASH-MUSICAL.
WORDS BY SISTERS GRIMM.
MUSIC BY ROSE TURTLE ERTLER.
When sugar-sweet six-year-old Bitsy is kicked out onto the mean city streets, she thinks all hope is lost. But after an enchanted sleep, she finds herself magically transported to BUMTOWN: an idyllic junkyard shanty-village, populated by hobos, homos, hookers, and gutter-trash.
Teaming up with fast-talking man-killing hooker Connie Horowitz, Bitsy sets to starting life afresh... But her happiness is short-lived. A big, evil corporation is threatening to bulldoze BUMTOWN, to make way for A SHOPPING MALL. And the towns pompous Mayor would rather play rat-golf than do anything about it. The answer: Bloody hobo-revolution.
But will Bitsy save Bumtown in the end - or will it crumble like cardboard in the rain? What of Connie's love with the paint-sniffing artist Squirrel? And most importantly - why are all the hobos singing and dancing?
Featuring BRUCE CARBOON, ASH FLANDERS, SIMON MORRISON-BALDWIN, MILES RABIES, KELLY PARRY, GILLIAN PERRY, MARC TESTART, and AMY TURTON.
Directors: DECLAN GREENE & PAUL TERRELL
Music Director: NAT GRANT
Costume Design: JASON CHENG
Lighting Design: DOUG MONTGOMERY
Choreography: ALETHEA JONES & HAYLEY WINCH
Stage Manager: JESS LEE
Graphic Design: MATT PAVICH
Production Photography: CLARYSSA HUMENNYJ-JAMESON
Set Design: THE TIP
1 - 17 NOVEMBER, 2007
" Bumtown is a roller-coaster ride of bad taste, corrupt morals, rank outsiders, filthy showtunes, and the odd man-gina thrown in for good measure. [...] This is irreverent, inconsiderate, insanely chaotic stuff: punk theatre in the truest sense of the word, dancing deleriously to its own devilish drumbeat." INPRESS
"Had me longing for deafness." THE AGE
"Nothing truly prepares you for the moment the makeshift curtain is drawn back to reveal the atonal abrasion that the Sisters Grimm have pulled together in BUMTOWN." THE PROGRAM
CELLBLOCK BOOTY.
A FURIOUSLY FILTHY SEXPLOITATION RIOT.
"Racy rebel girls behind bars! Can solid steel contain their PASSION?!"
The county's toughest prison is no place for a French-Domenican nun. But when Sister Dominique of the Order of the Little Wing is thrown in the Big Dollhouse, she must survive hose-downs, knife-fights and a sadistic lesbian matron with a taste for torture. Justice has never been this rough, tough or sexy!
A high-camp comic sexxxtravaganza featuring turf-wars, drugmules, chain-gangs, snitches and gutternsipes, CELLBLOCK BOOTY celebrates all that is beautiful in the glamourous world of an all-female prison.
Original Cast (2008)
ALEXANDRA ALDRICH, SIMON MORRISON BALDWIN, PAT CONSTANTINOU, JENNI DOUGLAS, ASH FLANDERS, KILORAN HISCOCK
Adelaide Fringe Cast (2009)
SIMON MORRISON BALDWIN, PIP EDWARDS, ASH FLANDERS, KILORAN HISCOCK, ASHLEY NISH, TANYA WEILER
Costumes by JASON CHENG
Graphic Design by ANDREW DOWNER
Production Photography by CLARYSSA HUMENNYJ-JAMESON
1 - 11 MAY, 2008
COLLINGWOOD UNDERGROUND ARTS PARK
48 HARMSWORTH STREET, COLLINGWOOD
10 - 21 MARCH, 2009
GARDEN OF UNEARTHLY DELIGHTS
" * * * * [CELLBLOCK BOOTY] is corny porn, heaving cleavage, strip-search cabaret - as drugs, drag, and sadomasochism tangle to unleash psychedelic episodes. With a raunchy soundtrack to match the drop-the-soap opera on display, this cellblock really knows how to tango." THE SUNDAY MAIL (Adelaide)
"See CELLBLOCK BOOTY at any price... This is supremely important, albeit insane, theatre." INPRESS
"I'm not sure if the Sisters Grimm realise just how good they are. Dont get me wrong this is by no means slick, brilliantly written, soul touching theatre. Its cheap, chaotic and crappy. They do everything wrong and thats what makes it so right." AUSSIETHEATRE
LITTLE MERCY.
EVIL JUST TURNED EIGHT.
Roger and Virginia Summers have it all. He, a successful theatre director. She, a successful drunken housewife. But their charmed lives are empty - they long for a child.
...Careful what you wish for.
In this companion piece to 2008's MOMMIE & THE MINISTER, Sisters Grimm cordially invite you on a play-date with little Mercy Summers a plucky 8-year-old with a taste for ice-cream, lollipops... And murder.
Featuring ASH FLANDERS, CARA MITCHELL, SEAN-JAMES MURPHY, and SUSIE DEE as "Mercy"
Costumes by ALICE SWING
Lighting Design by KATIE SFETKIDIS
Video by ROHAN SPONG
17 - 27 MARCH, 2010
"A madly entertaining ride... Laugh-out loud funny." HERALD SUN
"[LITTLE MERCY] is acted with the appropriate po-faced melodramatic passion by its cast, with some ingenious stage tricks and multi-media... The production and performances are high quality, with Ash Flanders as the soft-hearted innocent Virginia stealing the night. Nonsense, yes, but irresistibly funny nonsense, delivered with brio and flair." THEATRENOTES
"Greene and Flanders should be rewarded lavishly for their witty script-writing and unconventional method of storytelling. [...] Wickedly original and entertaining." ARTSHUB
SUMMERTIME
IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN.
"The South will fall, and so will her pride...
...In the greatest love story ever told."
Georgia. 1861. A faded Southern belle returns to the family plantation after ten years away from home.
But where has she been? Why did she run? And what secrets are buried in the ol' greenhouse?
From the creators of Little Mercy and When Lorraine Stops Falling comes a sweeping romance, set against the backdrop of the American Civil War.
AGENT CLEAVE, MUMMY COMPLEX, GENEVIEVE GUIFFRE, PETER PALTOS, and ERIN TASMANIA as "Big Daddy"
Created by ASH FLANDERS & DECLAN GREENE
Costumes styled by ANTHONY CLEAVE of ROSE CHONG'S COSTUMIERS
Graphic Design by RENA LITTLESON
22 FEBRUARY - 3 MARCH (Wednesdays to Saturdays)
8:00PM
The garage of 10 Hobson St, Thornbury
122 Tram - Stop 33
$14 / $18 / $12 Preview (Wed 22 February)
SALAMANDER PUSS
WHEN LORRAINE STOPS FALLING
THE RIMMING CLUB
GINGO'S NEW SLED
SUMMERTIME IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN [short version]
the FAERIETALES series
FUGLY
LITTLE MERCY [v.2]
BY L.A. GAMBIN
Emeline and Herle Shetland are the two most fucking refined upper-class society matrons ever to vomit raw mince on a plate., and they're here to teach you about MANNERS.
Gross-out etiquette lesson with bible-eating, intense hysterics, and hard-to-swallow milk-vomit grand guignol. Guaranteed to leave a bad-taste in your mouth (and splashes on your shoes).
Directed & Performed by Ash Flanders & Declan Greene
Performed at the Tote Hotel and Catfood Press, 2008
One girls epic journey of self-discovery, incorporating Hey Dad!, The Diary of Anne Frank, and Cakefarts.
Lorraine needs to win the National Youth Figure Skating Championships. Problem is: she's narcoleptic!!!! THERE YOU HAVE IT!!!! A SCENARIO WITH GENUINE PROMISE OF CONFLICT/COMEDY/DRAMA!! ITS ALL YOU NEED!!
Incredible cast of 15, featuring "artists" from Sissies & Sluts, Spill
Collective, Vive Cool City, and Rat vs Possum
Starring: Chloe Boreham, Jenni Douglas, Ash Flanders, Lee Gambin, Declan Greene, Matt Hickey, Kiloran Hiscock, Matt Kulesza, Gillian Mulholland, Gillian Perry, Sebastian Robinson, Ryder Jack Susman, and Rachel Torrance.
Lighting by Katie Sfetkidis
Make-up by Daphne Shum
Performed once in the loungeroom of Ali, Drew, and Mary's house, after one day of rehearsal, in 2010
> > WATCH IT ON YOUTUBE < <
Four estranged friends re-unite on a Greek island, hoping to reclaim the summer of that forever changed their lives. But has too much changed? Can you really ever escape the past? What does poo taste like? (THIS IS WHAT IT TASTES LIKE!!!!)
Sisters Grimm proudly present the human centipede of Strien Theatre royalty: all your faves ass to mouth NOM NOM NOM NOM!!!!1!!!
Starring: Bron Batten, Mummy Complex, Chris DiPasquale, Declan Greene, Godzilla Jones, Tobias Manderson-Galvin, Anna McCarthy, Carrie McGrath, Sebastian Robinson, Mzzz Erin Tasmania, and Allison Wiltshire
Set designed & built by Carrie McGrath
Sound design by Claudio Tocco
Peformed at the Crack Theatre Festival, This Is Not Art, 2010
A hot Summer's night, in Crawford County, Georgia. Honey-Sue Washington returns to the family plantation home after ten years away. But has too much changed? Can you ever really bury the past?
Written & Directed by Ash Flanders & Declan Greene
Starring: Mummy Complex, Agent Cleave, Godzilla Jones, and Mzzz Erin Tasmania.
Created for the Last Tuesday Society's "Pimp My Play", held at Studio 246, Brunswick, in 2011
Gingo gets a brand new sled for christmas and goes on a magical adventure, making a new friend along the way!
....And then some serious shit goes down.
Animated, voiced, and directed by Ash Flanders & Declan Greene
Created for Last Tuesday Society's COMFORT ZONES, at Witches in Britches Theatre Restaurant, as part of Next Wave 2010
> > WATCH IT ON FUNNYORDIE < <
FAERIETALES
An ongoing series of short pieces based on classic fairyles.
> > CINDERELLA (2008/09)
Featuring: Gerard Anthony, Declan Greene, Thomas Jaspers, Stephanie Moore, Emma Newborn, and Peter Paltos.
Performed at venues across London including Resistance Gallery (as part of Transkabarett Maxximus), the DogEared Collective's "Doghouse", and Ghetto gay-bar.
> > CINDERELLA, SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN FRATBOYS, and CHICKEN LITTLE (2010/11)
Featuring: Mummy Complex, Emma Davey, Chris DiPasquale, Declan Greene, Godzilla Jones, Matt Hickey, and Amy Turton
Costumes by Carrie McGrath
Performed at the Village, as part of Falls Festival, Lorne, 2010/11
> > JACK & THE NICE OLD MAN (2011)
Featuring: Mummy Complex, Declan Greene, Matt Hickey, and Martin Sharpe.
Performed at the Last Tuesday Society Christmas Special, 2011.
AT THE MELBOURNE FRINGE FESTIVAL CLUB (2010)
"Cos you are beautiful / No matter what they say"
This aint drag like your grandaddy did it. FUGLY is a one-night art-drag ARMAFUKKKIIINNNNGEDDON, where you can tranny-out alongside the crème de la femme of Fringe.
The worlds most successful and beloved theatre company SIXXTERS GRIMM are challenging a few of their LEGITIMATE artist-friends to step out in drag, alongside Melbournes finest/foulest alt-trannies.
Dress up, throw up, thrown down whatever. Just make a mess (and then roll in it). HAWT!!!!
Featuring: ANGUS CERINI, ASH FLANDERS, GODZILLA & MUMMY COMPLEX, COUNT JACKULA, SHIAN LAW, POST, DAWN SERVICED & SMACK LONDON, and THE RABBLE.
Plus DJ WHISKEY HOUSTON + DJ SEX AXE + DJ GLASS OVV WAHTAH
AS PART OF SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY's "ROUGH DRAFTS"
Week-long redevelopment of our 2010 show LITTLE MERCY.
Featuring: VALERIE BADER, ASH FLANDERS, and LUKE MULLINS
Directed by Declan Greene
Designed by Emma Kingsbury
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