My Complicated Relationship with Laurie Anderson

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Rub My Belly for Good Luck! Presents
My Complicated Relationship with Laurie Anderson
2 – 4 March 2007
7pm Friday, 4pm & 7pm Saturday, 2pm Sunday
Bluenote Bar, 191 – 195 Cuba Street, Wellington
Tickets: $12 full, $10 concession, $8 Fringe Addict
TO BOOK phone (04) 801 5007

Brains in aquariums, resin sheep, heated phone conversations with an American idiot – a solo musical comedy that’s sharp as a knife; hard as a diamond…

Something truly unusual and NOT to be missed! Book your tickets now to see the world premiere of a show that really is in a league of its own.

Created and performed by Charlotte Everett, My Complicated Relationship with Laurie Anderson is a cabaret-style drama about what can happen when a fan decides to do a tribute show – is Charly really an obsessed fan? You decide!

Everett takes her audience on a roller-coaster journey through cult performance artist Laurie Anderson’s work, as well as her own – all with the help and guidance of Gareth, her aquarium-dwelling brain…

Featuring new live music composed by Robbie Ellis, Charly sings, dances and story-tells her way through Saddam Hussein’s hanging, controversial Vice Chancellor Stuart McCutcheon (ex Victoria) putting live lambs into the freezer, and even Buddhist philosophy.

The show is directed by Patrick Graham, no stranger to the Wellington Fringe Festival and an up-and-coming writer and director of critical acclaim:

“In every aspect of the production of iS there is something beautiful and something unsettling… It is groundbreaking and genre-defying, filled with possibilities.”
Kathryn van Beek, www.theatreview.co.nz

“Graham has daringly directed the actors towards the grotesque and unexpected, yet elements like plain costumes pull the experience down to basics. The results are tense with room to imagine more, a clever move to pare everything else back with such strong deliveries.”
Raewyn Alexander reviews Woyzeck, which Graham directed and Everett acted in.

“By dealing with a little known work, the director is liberated from the constraints that accompany more revered texts and Patrick Graham makes the most of the chance by conjuring up a dreamlike space where Kiwiana meets Monty Python…”
Paul Semi-Barton, New Zealand Herald, 13.02.2006.

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