Blowing up a Storm

Labrug | 02/06/2006 - 13:25

OUTRAGE! SHOCK! CONSERVATIVE KNEE-JERK! All over a title.

All right then the title is somewhat suggestive, but never judge a book by its cover. "7 Blowjobs" is a play about 7 such acts. Acts that have been photographed and handed anonymously to a conservative republican and his support team, over which they pour, faint, revile and intrigue over. However the shock over the title is preventing the director from putting up a simple poster. The director is not giving up however.

"I will get it up there, even if I have to plaster it up myself," says Lee Lewis, who is directing the play for Belvoir Street's B Sharp. "Me, a glue bucket and a roller late at night!"

Lewis says there has been a "massive conversation" about advertising outside the play's venue, the Seymour Centre. It's part of the debate in the arts as sedition laws and censorship threaten freedom of expression. - http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/06/01/1148956468720.html?from=rss

But with no apparent difficulty in comparison, you can quickly book tickets via the Bevloir's Web Site - http://www.belvoir.com.au/320_whatson_downstairs.php?production_id=149

It's about time that extreme conservatisim got a quick shot of something (anything) up the back-side. I am an artist, hear me roar. Eye-wink

Chow.

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Featured event

English and Cultural Studies - UWA (Perth) presents
Women Beware Women

Playwright:
Howard Barker/Thomas Middleton

Director:
Steve Chinna

Details:

Theatre students in English and Cultural Studies at UWA present contemporary English playwright Howard Barker’s rewriting of Thomas Middleton’s early-1620s Jacobean revenge tragedy Women Beware Women. Middleton’s play was last performed at UWA in the Octagon Theatre in 1982, directed by the then director-in-residence Timothy West with a cast comprising English Department staff and members of the UWA Grads and student theatre communities. This radical reworking utilises most of the first four acts and language of Middleton’s play in its first half, with a second half comprised of Barker’s mixture of vividly poetic and robust vernacular language that takes the trajectories of the protagonists towards a denouement which leaves most of the characters surviving, but which shatters the ducal state of greed, misogyny, and moral corruption – a denouement which Middleton saw fit to end with a conventional revenge tragedy massacre of his troublesome protagonists. Suitable for audiences 15+.
Tickets at Dolphin door.

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