Presented at the Adelaide and Melbourne Fringes.
Winner of the Melbourne Fringe Touring Award and the Spirit of the Fringe Award. Nominated for Best Theatre (Melbourne Fringe).
“It’s catastrophe comedy that leaves you breathless, thoughtful, and craving fairy bread.”
★★★★1/2 Mark Wickett, Stage Whispers
“A high energy, inventive, intelligent production.”
★★★★1/2 Craig Cook, The Advertiser
A party. A fourth birthday party. A truly wonderful and lovely fourth birthday party. The world isn’t ending. We have honey crackles and fairy bread and the world isn’t ending at all.
In a suburban backyard, in front of an altar of compostable party plates and fun-size sausage rolls, a darling little boy is having an outer-space-themed birthday party.
Somewhere in Texas, a billionaire charts his next phallic-rocket voyage to Mars.
A mother crawls through a Mad Max desert in search of life-sustaining supplies.
A father beats the candy out of a crêpe-paper lolly-horse.
With surreal storytelling and a blistering sonic landscape, SAMUEL is a shimmering, hypercolour attempt at extinguishing the flames of the apocalypse, one birthday candle at a time.
Playwright/Performer- Mary Angley
Performer/Co-Creator- Yoz Mensch
Sound Designer/Co-Creator- Dan Thorpe
Creative Producer- Caitlin Ellen Moore
Supported by The Mill and the Adelaide Fringe through the Centre Stage Residency
Photography: Caitlin Ellen Moore and Dylan Minchenberg
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