Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Rollin with the Fringe Fest

Bake Sale for Art have their Tiger Two Times hats on until this Friday for the rest of the Melbourne Fringe presentation of 'Nature League in North Melbourne'. Audiences have been picking up, we finally got programs, and we have got some really great, sometimes surprising, feedback.

Here's some things people have said about Nature League: "It's like a Renoir", "It's pretty much Pink Floyd's The Wall", "Gorgeous, wacky and delightful" (Peta Murray, playwright), "I'm a pretty highly strung person and I haven't been this relaxed in years", among adjectives like "magical", "trance-like", "creepy" and "idyllic".

Feels like we are rolling along nicely after the saga of getting down here. That is, our van broke down just out of Tarcutta, which is a truck stop of a town halfway between Sydney and Melbourne that does a surprisingly good hamburger and a mean instant coffee. So budget has been blown out for the hire of another van and the sad little borrowed van is still waiting for some TLC from Tarcutta Motor Repairs.



Nature League shows 7:30 and 8:30 every night till Friday, it's $5 and, bias aside, it is really worth seeing. So if you're in Melbourne come along, and if you have friends in Melbourne tell them to come. Other Sydney peeps worth seeing are Claudia O'Doherty from Pig Island doing 'Monsters of the Deep 3D', and Pip Smith and Lexi Freeman's 'Invert'. They are all in the Artshouse complex in North Melbourne at different times, so one could see them all in one night of amazing, entertaining performance. Book at Fringe Website.

Spruiking.

I also wanted to mention that the next Monthly Friend will be upon us before we have time to say, "well here we are back in Sydney." We have decided upon the theme..
DEAD OR ALIVE
Curtorial blurb coming soon. It will be on a Saturday afternoon, 17th Oct, at PACT Theatre as part of the October Quarterbred. Contact us if you are interested in doing something. bakesaleforart(at)gmail.com.