MONDAY, 25 JANUARY, 2010

This time there's a reason for not writing in a year. We didn't do very much in 2009 - just CELLBLOCK BOOTY at Adelaide Fringe and then a well-earned rest. Now we're kicking things off in 2010 with TWO NEW PROJECTS in THREE MONTHS!!!

The first is a short play, WHEN LORRAINE STOPS FALLING, which we're performing one-night-only in a lounge-room with a cast of 14. Then on March 17 we open our new full-length play LITTLE MERCY, which is a companion piece to MOMMIE & THE MINISTER. But where MOMMIE was a mash-up of monstrous mother-figures in B-cinema, LITTLE MERCY takes on evil children - think The Omen, The Exorcist, The Bad Seed, etc... We're very, very, very excited to be working with a bunch of extremely talented new people on this one: costume designer Alice Swing, lighting designer Katie Sfetkidis, and a cast including Cara Mitchell, Sean James Murphy, and Susie Dee as the eponymous "Mercy"!. Expect an update with more LITTLE MERCY info soon.

WE MISSED YOU.

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TUESDAY FEBRUARY 10, 2009

We love the song "I'VE BEEN DRIVING ON BALD MOUNTAIN/WATER BOY" as sung by Odetta

Well, approximately a century ago we had a FANTASTIC + WAY WAYWAY TOO FUN run at Edinburgh Fringe. The sisters are now reunited in the same hemisphere after a gorgeous stint in London performing x-rated panto CINDERELLA, our definitive interpretation of the classical fairietayle. The eponymous heroine was reimagined as a screaminging shit-smeared baglady in a hideous world of garbage-eating drag-queens, and featured a Prince Charming with a butthole hungry for French's American Mustard. O THE ART. We did it at Resistance Gallery (for Ryan Styles & Jonny Woo's TRANSKABARETT MAXXIMUS night), The Doghouse (curated by the Dog-Eared Collective), and the infamous Ghetto faggot-bar, and it looked something like this:

In more recent news, ASH FLANDERS is performing Adam JA Cass' award-winning one-man-show at the Malthouse - CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS/BOOKING INFO

AND in about a month we're remounting our sell-out sexploitation smash-hit CELLBLOCK BOOTY at the Garden of Unearthly Delights!!

We love you.

More updates soon or within 7 months

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TUESDAY 22 JULY, 2008

In about 30 hours Ash and I leave for Edinburgh on Sisters Grimm's first ever overseas outing. Fucking amaaaazing. On the plane ride over we're planning on finishing a new play, MONDO PANTO, so fucking PITY the poor assholes who have to sit anywhere near our offensive self-congratulatory cackilng on that 23 hour flight. HA!

Before we head off we've got to say an absolutely HUGE thank-you to everyone who supported our fundraising ventures over the last couple of months. I won't be so CRASS as to disclose the amount of money we made, but it was much more than we'd hoped for. So huge gingivitis soaked snaggletoothed mustached kisses go to Josie Byrt, Susie Dee, Yvonne Virsik, Jason Lehane, Steph Hughes, Lee Gambin, GAY, Taste the Venom, Sample Theatre, Doug Montgomery, and the entire cast of CELLBLOCK BOOTY -- plus anyone and everyone who turned up to support us/shovel their hard earned $$$ into our open mouths.

As part of our fundraising season we recently did a two-night bad-taste variety hour called "SISSY CAKES"; the first night of which featured a double-bill with Sissies & Sluts' blackface minstrel tribute "COONSKIN" plus a hysterical (in the most histronic sense of the word) piss/cum/barf-elegant parlour comedy entitled SALAMANDER PUSS that was written by the fucking astounding Lee Gambin for Ash and I to perform. Suffice to say it caused a bit of a STIR - but Ryder Jack at VIVE COOL CITY + the divine Ms. Matt Kulesza came along to watch/film/talk to us -- so ENJOY!

VIVE COOL CITY PRESENTS... "AN EXERCISE IN OFFENSE": Sissies & Sluts + Sisters Grimm's "Coonskin"/"Salamander Puss"!!! P.S. You should probably just watch it on the website, its BIGGER. And SUSCRIBE, their vids are really amazing!!

WWW.VIVECOOLCITY.COM

FRIDAY 13 JUNE, 2008

So. Busy.

OK just a quickie kids! So basically CELLBLOCK BOOTY was our most successful thing ever; sold out most of the shows and had a ludicrously well recieved run. Which is why you're so excited we're doing ONE MORE SHOW on the 26th of June...

Yes, the spirit of the moment is FUNDRAISING, with our little Sisterhood heading to the UK in just under SEVEN WEEKS! So we've got this BOOTY performance, plus 4 performances of MOMMIE (the revamped Edinburgh version), PLUS a one-off warehouse double-bill with heinous fellow faggot filthmongers SISSIES & SLUTS! You actually can't wait.

More news soon. Hope you like the Jonathan Brandis, RRRIIIPPPP!!!

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TUESDAY 22 APRIL, 2008

CELLBLOCK BOOTY is so, so near...! Opening NEXT THURSDAY

One of the highlights of our stay in HotHouse was taking a workshop in TRASH-THEATRE at La Trobe Uni, Wodonga, incorporating screenings of ORGY OF THE DEAD/JUST FOR THE HELL OF IT/DESPERATE LIVING/THE LIVING END, etc, plus talks on D.I.Y. ethics/aesthetics, writing CAMP, etc, had sooo much fun. The class in groups ended up writing a short scene each, and our personal favourite was the group who made an epic class struggle set at a White Supremacy Rally where Paris Hilton lobbies for the rights of black men (because they have bigger dicks and give better anal). She then decides to kill off the entire white race by fucking them to spread her syphillis. The clip below opens with Paris' rally cry!! FAVOURITE PIECE OF THEATRE-WRITING EVER!!! i.e. We wish we were this fucking good!!

WEDNESDAY 9 APRIL, 2008

HEY BAAABES!! Sisters Grimm are being BORDER BOIS for most of April: currently in residence between Albury and Wodonga slash VIC/NSW with five amaaazzzing actors to make fucking incredible new play CELLBLOCK BOOTY!! We're all living together in a huge old farmhouse with some great old heaters and double-beds and on the first night Alex found a dead rat under her pillow. We suppose this is the hotel-mint done Albury style - needless to say the hospitality was more more MORE than appreciated.

We're rehearsing fulltime in the farmhouse studio, photos + clips to come! In the meantime, be sure to make plans to see the show! 1-11 May at Collingwood Underground Arts Park - booking details on the "CURRENT" page.

Sisters x x x

SATURDAY 22 MARCH, 2008

The website has been overhauled, and even though it doesn't look a whole lot different it sure will be easier to update from now on, so expect those a little more regularly.

The MOMMIE & THE MINISTER Sisterhood just returned from Adelaide Fringe, where we all had an absolutely WIIILD time. The play was staged in the basement of Big Star records on Rundle St, and was advertised with extensive spruking, which included:

- Mommie leading the children around the streets with a leash made of rope yelling "ISN'T IT A LOVELY DAY FOR A STROLL? - SMILE FOR THE PEOPLE, CHILDREN! SMILE!"

- Mommie doing curbside Bible readings from Leviticus with the children roped to a tree nearby, which all went along the lines of: "YOU WILL NOT LOOK UPON THE NAKEDNESS OF YOUR FATHER! HE IS YOUR FATHER! THIS IS THE WORD OF THE LORD! I AM THE LORD! YOU SHALL NOT LOOK UPON THE DISCHARGE OF YOUR SON-IN-LAW FOR IT IS THE DISCHARGE OF YOUR DAUGHTER'S HUSBAND! ANYONE WHO TOUCHES IT WILL BE UNCLEAN! THIS IS THE WORLD OF THE LORD! I AM THE LORD!" To be honest, the best part was hearing a drag queen in beehive wig and 50's power-suit yell over and over "I AM THE LORD."

AND:

Oh, and the show did extremely well. You can read our reviews HERE.

In more MOMMIE news, thanks to the amazing Claire at THREE TO A ROOM we've got our Edinburgh Fringe venue confirmed as the BIG BELLY space at UNDERBELLY venues. Good times ahead.

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MONDAY 4 FEBRUARY, 2008

Welcome to 2008.

So far, we've had a piece in Midsumma's Pink Shorts 10-minute faggot play competition. Our entry was HOME ECONOMICS, PT III - an intense mesh of "QUEER NOISE" vocal distortion/looping, Michael Jackson, condensed milk, and gay bear baking. It was greeted something like this:

And reviews went something like this:

"Pink Shorts saved the best until last: Home Economics, Pt 3 was equal parts disturbing and hilarious, flipping between the two at schizophrenic levels. There was a depth and professionalism to the writing, while the performances and the stagecraft made it a stand-out."
NICK BOND, B NEWS

"Home Economics, Pt III by veteran playwright Declan Greene was, well, very Declan Greene only more so. Personally I believe this to be the best of Greene’s works that I have seen to date, with the piece utilising jarring sound distortions to bring the chaos inside the mind of the principle character into the minds of the audience. In contrast to some of his earlier work, Home Economics, Pt III strikes a perfect balance between the outrageous, the dark and the humorous – it is subtly nuanced where previous works have been hard-hittingly bold. I suppose the main question is where are parts one and two and when can we see them?"
YUHAN LIM, ARTSHUB

We head for Adelaide in two weeks. Wish us luck!

Sisters x x

MONDAY 12 NOVEMBER, 2007

BUMTOWN = OFFICIALLY 100% CRITICALLY LOATHED!!!!

We're definitely taking the prize out for most hated theatremakers in Melbourne at the moment!!! to date our trash has been trashed by The Age, MCV, The Program, Aus Stage Online... the love-in starts here, baaabes!

of course, it's comforting to remember that MOST critics didn't even like FREDDY GOT FINGERED when it was released!! Like... WTF do they know?!?! "DADDY WOULD YOU LIKE SOME SAUSAGE??" clearly genius!!

In other news, it's the FINAL WEEK of BUMTOWN so come join the love-in + see the shriekiest, loudest, stinkiest, mangina-iest piece of theatre you're likely to encounter this side of Priscilla!!!
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TUESDAY 16 OCTOBER, 2007

Well, BUMTOWN opens in about two-and-a-half weeks and today during rehearsal the cast & crew discussed in depth whether we should sell ear-plugs in the foyer before the show. I believe it was Simon Morrison-Baldwin who suggested we could make more selling them during interval, and we're inclined to agree. Suffice to say it's going to be the BEST SHOW EVER!!

In other news, HotHouse theatre have kindly offered us a stint in their Albury farmhouse for three weeks - so come April next year we'll be taking down a bunch of extremely brilliant actors to develop KELLY'S SLUMBA PARTY!!! - a nasty/RAUNCH take on tween-girl culture replete with awsum dance moves, ouija board, Dolly magazine, and accidental homicide.

Also in things 2008 related, we're looking to put together a kind of permanent SISTERHOOD to work on the Sisters Grimm shows; a collective of 8 or so like-minded histrionic trash-bags willing to act, direct, write, produce, stage-manage, and generally disgrace themselves for no money or glory whatsoever across the 4 shows we're producing next year. If you're interested, drop us a line.

Stay tuned for more updates before BUMTOWN takes off!
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WEDNESDAY 15 AUGUST, 2007

We decided to re-design the Sisters Grimm website after reports of migraines/seizures among the young + elderly.

It's a period of INTENSE activity within the Sisterhood a.t.m, planning our 2008 -- which at the moment involves: a trip interstate, a trip overseas, a workshop in the country (fingers crossed), a new play at mechanic's/storeroom/somewhere, and a no-budget film-shoot on VHS across darwin.