Hit Aussie Fringe Show Makes It’s NZ Debut!

Hit Aussie Fringe Show Makes It’s NZ Debut!

After it’s making its world debut at Fringe World 2016 and two years successfully touring Australia and Canada, the award-winning show finally makes it’s New Zealand debut in Wellington! A Sci-Fi Buddy-Comedy about a man who lives in another man’s beard from the bizarre mind of Festival-favourite Shane Adamczak (Trampoline, Zack Adams, Canadian Just For Laughs Award Winner and producer of other Fringe hits This Is Not A Love Song and Vicious Circles).

When a scientific accident causes a mild-mannered janitor to shrink and get stuck in another man’s beard, their unlikely friendship might be exactly what the two directionless men need to set them on the path toward being better men that proves that even the smallest people can do big things.

Featuring two of Australia’s most established Indy Theatre performers; Shane Adamczak (Stasis, Trampoline, Zack Adams and The Little Prince) and St John Cowcher (My Robot, The Red Balloon, Farm and The Adventures Of Alvin Sputnik), the show combines physical theatre, storytelling, musical comedy and indie-rock. The Ballad Of Frank Allen is a festival experience like no other and one of the most weird and original shows you’ll catch at this year’s Fringe!
/ WINNER – JUST FOR LAUGHS AWARD (Best Comedy) – Montreal Fringe 2017 /
“Brilliantly written... wildly funny performances... hilarious songs” - GLOBAL NEWS
“It’s what Australian comedy is supposed to be like. It’s touching, clever, hilarious, and wraps up perfectly.” –RIP IT UP
“One of the most original and entertaining buddy-comedies you’re ever likely to have the opportunity to see” – Kryztoff Raw


ABOUT wEEPING sPOON pRODUCTIONS
“Never stop playing make-believe, tour everywhere”
Weeping Spoon Productions is an international multi-award winning independent theatre company based in Perth, Western Australia. Co-founded by a group of professionally trained actors, Weeping Spoon Productions has become one of the most prolific theatre companies in Perth. Under the Artistic Direction of Shane Adamczak and new company members St John Cowcher, Whitney Richards and Libby Klysz, Weeping Spoon’s ongoing mission is to create challenging, exciting and innovative works for production in Western Australia and tour these productions throughout Australia and Overseas.

THE CAST
Shane Adamczak (Writer/Producer/Performer) Shane Adamczak graduated from WAAPA in 2003 and has since gone on to become a stalwart of the West Australian Theatre scene; a Fringe Festival veteran of over 40 festivals worldwide and “One of Perth’s most successful independent theatre creators” (The Sunday Times) as a founding member and current Artistic Director of Independent Theatre Company Weeping Spoon Productions. He is also a company associate of Spare Parts Puppet Theatre.

Recently returned from a Canadian tour of his Fringe hit show The Ballad Of Frank Allen which took out the coveted Just For Laughs (Best Comedy) Award at the 2017 Montreal Fringe. A regular on the Canadian Fringe circuit, his most recent work includes a Canadian Tour of his award-winning plays TRAMPOLINE and The Ballad Of Frank Allen, Greg Fleet’s multi-award winning THIS IS NOT A LOVE SONG and Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show (as Brad Majors). He also gained critical acclaim for his portrayal of iconic Sex Pistols front-man Johnny Rotten in the award winning Canadian play Vicious Circles. He was also a cast member of LA Troupe Sound & Fury for their 2015 and 2017 Australian Fringe Tours.

As an Improviser, he a senior player of Improv-comedy troupe The Big HOO-HAA!, TheatreSports Champion and creator of cult-hit Captain Spaceship. Shane also recently appeared on screen in the mini-series The War The Changed Us the feature film Paper Planes and is currently the face of STAN’s “Hungry Eyes” campaign.

St John Cowcher (performer) is an actor, writer and theatre practitioner. A Contemporary Performance graduate (Edith Cowan University ’09), founding member of performance company The Wet Weather Ensemble and associate artist at Spare Parts Puppet Theatre , Weeping Spoon Productions and Variegated Productions. St John also performs in improvised comedy group The Big HOO-HAA.

Most recent Theatre credits include My Robot (Barking Gecko, 2017) The Red Balloon (Black Swan Theatre Company, 2015), Blueback (Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, 2015), Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer (The Last Great Hunt, 2013-Present), Farm (Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, 2014) and These Guys ( Variegated Productions @ The Blue Room Theatre for Summer Nights, 2014).

Most recent Film credits include Imperial (3 Magi Productions, 2015), The Legend of Gavin Tanner and the Loop (Mad Kids Productions, 2013) and Peak (Timothy John Sharp, 2012).

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