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BUMTOWN.
an epic trash-musical.
by Ash Flanders & Declan Greene
original score by Rose Turtle Ertler
the
filthiest, noisiest, ugliest, most irritating trash-musical since
Pippin
SYNOPSIS.
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 prostitute
Connie Horowitz, Bitsy sets to starting life afresh... However,
herhappiness is short-lived. A big, evil corporation is threatening
to bulldoze bUMTOWN, to make way for… A SHOPPING MALL. And worse
still, the town’s pompous Mayor would rather play rat-golf than
do anything about it. The answer: Bloody hobo-revolution!!
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?
PRODUCTION.
1
- 17 NOVEMBER, 2007
MECHANIC'S INSTITUTE PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE
CNR GLENLYON RD & SYDNEY RD, BRUNSWICK
SISTERHOOD.
BRUCE CARBOON, ASH FLANDERS, SIMON MORRISON-BALDWIN, MILES RABIES,
KELLY PARRY, GILLIAN PERRY, MARC TESTART, 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
REVIEWS.
MICHAEL
MAGNUSSON, "MCV":
"The youthful cast howl the songs while accompanying themselves
by bashing an assortment of scrap metal with hammers and sticks
making sure that anything remotely resembling a show tune is beaten
to death."
MICHAEL
SCOTT, "THE PROGRAM":
"Nothing truly prepares you for the moment that the makeshift
curtain is drawn back to reveal the atonal abrasion that the Sisters
Grimm have pulled together in BUMTOWN."
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Cameron Woodhead, The Age,
"Appalling Songs Sink Sisters' Latest Gross-Out",
November 13, 2007 |
Tony
McMahon , Inpress, November 14, 2007 |
PRESS.
Interview
on SYN FM, The Mess Room, October 25, 2007 [9.7mb]
Tony McMahon,
Inpress, "Trash Is My Life", Wednesday
October 24, 2007 |
Fiona Scott Norman, The
Age EG, "They just want to have fun", Friday
October 19, 2007 |
Daren
Pope, B News, "Pop Culture Reigns", Wednesday
October 17, 2007 |
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