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 Join Kate McLennan for her multi-award winning comedy that follows the trials and tribulations of a high school community preparing for that (albeit dated) teenage rite of passage - the Debutante Ball.
The Debutante Diaries takes audiences back to their High School days, where the scent of Impulse deodorant and decomposing sandwiches still linger in the air; as Kate plays a range of teenagers hilariously navigating their way through adolescence. Experience first love, first kisses and first boob jobs all over again - you’ll cringe and cry at the gut wrenching honesty but ultimately laugh because it’s not happening to you! A “Mean Girls” meets “Carrie” comedy from this critically acclaimed actress.
Firmly rooted in Australian Suburbia; The Debutante Diaries hilariously and at times poignantly, depicts the stories of 9 characters, as Kate slips effortlessly between roles. The audience are introduced to the dubious Deb organiser, Mr. “Call me Guy” Gerrity, who is trying to top last year's controversially themed 'Burlesque Deb'. They meet the manic perfectionist, Chrystelle with her ‘Fairytale Deb’ scrap book and the school Bitch & Beauty Queen, Stacey, kindly takes us through her beauty regime…“Monday is hair straightening, Tuesday tanning, Wednesday waxing and then on Thursday Mum and I get colonically instigated.” But it's the character of Sophie, with her painfully honest and touching diary entries, who takes us back to our own High School days where we were all just kids trying desperately to find our place.
Kate McLennan made her stage debut as a flower girl in the 1984 Mortlake Rotary Club Debutante Ball, since then she has worked consistently within the Melbourne fringe theatre and comedy scenes, performing her trademark characters to critical acclaim. Kate appeared on Let Loose Live (Seven Network) and as a regular sketch performer on Vulture (ABC TV.) She plans to stage The Debutante Diaries in the Adelaide Fringe in March and the Edinburgh Fringe in August. The Debutante Diaries is directed by Fiona Harris, cast member of long running sketch comedy Skithouse. Fiona is currently filming the 5th series of Comedy Inc.
Winner 2006 Melbourne Fringe
“Best Comedy Award” & The “I’m Off To Edinburgh Award”
“really hysterical…I’m still laughing... McLennan has it totally under control” BEAT Magazine
“had me absolutely howling with laughter... McLennan is a master at transformation” Aussietheatre.com
“This is a great show which goes from gut wrenchingly funny to sweetly sad… her accomplishment as a character actor is apparent from the get go.” The Groggy Squirrel
The Six presents
THE DEBUTANTE DIARIES
Written and performed by Kate McLennan
Venue: The Acacia Room
Dates: April 5th – 29th (No show Mondays)
Time: 9.30 & 8.30 Sundays
Tickets: Previews (April 5th- 8th) $13, Full $18 Con $16, Tightarse Tuesdays $13
Bookings: Ticketmaster www.ticketmaster.com.au or 1300 660 013
Website: www.myspace.com/katemclennan for more information
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