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 From Tuesday June 17 until July 12, the Old Fitzroy Theatre hosts the WORLD PREMIERE of Poster Girl – a sexy, smart, important black comedy about terrorism and activism in the celebrity age.
Mindy Xyloine, a celbutante heiress, has been kidnapped by hapless young lefty “terrorists” and the world is watching. Sort of. As the cops succumb to the lure of magazine photo-shoots, staying ahead of the investigation becomes slightly less important than staying ahead of the zeitgeist. It takes Mindy to teach her kidnapper collective how to play the game.
This re-telling of the Patty Hearst story for the Paris Hilton era is directed by James Beach (White Russian, NIDA) and stars recent NIDA graduate Shannon Dooley as the eponymous anti-heroine. It is the latest offering from the pen of the enfant terrible of Australia theatre, Van Badham.
Badham has only recently returned to Australia after five years as a working playwright in London. She has racked up eight Edinburgh productions in six years, and her stellar critical reputation has seen her work staged across the UK, in Germany, Austria, the US and even Iceland. Poster Girl is her first world premiere staged back home in more than five years.
Director James Beach was immediately attracted to Poster Girl for its feisty humour. “The play challenges the falsehoods of a fast and cheap celebrity-driven culture, while at the same time basking in the tacky allure of it all,” says Beach “It’s hot.”
Platform 19 and The Gemeinschaft Dogs theatre company present
Poster Girl
by Van Badham
Venue: Old Fitzroy Theatre | Cnr Cathedral & Dowling Sts Woolloomooloo
Dates: June 17 - July 12
Tickets: $20/$28 or $34 for a beer, a laksa and the show
Bookings: moshtix.com.au
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