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THE CONCERT
Directed by by Merophie Carr
You met them in The Business….As Usual, loved One Man’s Business and were blown away by Big Business. Now they’re back! Paul, Barry, Ray and Pierre return to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2010 with their award-winning show The Concert.
The Business have always dreamed of playing with the great conductor Marcus Schmetterlink and his world famous Helsinki Symphony Orchestra. Tonight’s the night! Seemingly possessed by the spirit of the Marx Brothers channelling Samuel Beckett, these four endearingly flawed characters turn the great traditions of orchestra on their head.
As they wait impatiently for Marcus to arrive, the lads are reduced to petty refreshment theft, operatic solos, wild tap and even disco dancing. Classic slapstick combines with rivalry and one-up-man-ship in this hilarious night out with The Business.
Since winning the British Council Oz Export Award and receiving a Barry Award nomination at the 2003 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, The Concert has toured both regionally and internationally. Now Melbourne audiences once again have the opportunity to see the ‘brilliant slapstick adventure’ that is The Concert.
Performed by Glynis Angell, Penny Baron, Clare Bartholomew & Kate Kantor. Directed by Merophie Carr.
“Brilliant purveyors of physical comedy, dexterously employing detailed characterisaton and slapstick…” Sydney Morning Herald 2003
The Business is Glynis Angell, Penny Baron, Clare Bartholomew and Kate Kantor. Renowned for their impressive non-verbal theatre and inventive complex characterisations, The Business presents shrewd, beautifully crafted performance works including Big Business, The Business…As Usual (Best Comedy, Melbourne Fringe Festival) and One Man’s Business (winner of the Comedy Festival Foreign Exchange Award).
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“The Business is, without doubt, one of the most genuinely inventive shows you are likely to see in this year’s Fringe.” Metro (Edinburgh Fringe Festival) 2003
Venue: the Arts Centre, BlackBox
Dates: Sundays only - 28 March, 4 April & 11 April
Tickets: $25.00 | $20.00 Concession & Groups 6+ (per person)
Times: 4:30pm
Bookings: theartscentre.com.au*, 1300 182 183* or the Arts Centre Box Office
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Company Biographies
Glynis Angell is an actor, theatre maker, director and teacher. Glynis co-wrote and performed in her show Haul Away - Best Female Performer (Independent Theatre), Best New Australian Play nomination, Green Rooms Awards 2006. Recent theatre acting roles include Letters From Animals, Asylum and The Time is Not Yet Ripe (Winner Best Ensemble (Independent Theatre) Green Rooms Awards 2006) for Here Theatre. Film/TV credits include Waiting at the Royal Winner 2001 Banf International Film Festival Best Film Made for Television, The Interview, An Angel at my Table, Blue Heelers and Something in the Air. Glynis is Co-Artistic Director of improvisation theatre company Melbourne Playback Theatre.
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Penny Baron has been working as a performer, deviser and director for the past sixteen years. Penny trained with Dance Arts Dance Company in Dunedin, NZ 1988, and graduated from The John Bolton Theatre School in 1992. She has studied Clown, Le jeu and Text with Phillip Gaulier in London 1996 and Improvisation extensively with Al Wunder, Theatre of the Ordinary.
Penny is a member of Born In A Taxi physical theatre company, Born In A Taxi has a long history performing works indoors, site specific, and outdoors both nationally and internationally . Penny is a founding member of The Rhonda Movement comedy trio and The Business clown quartet.
As theatre maker, and performer with these companies and independently Penny’s awards have included the 1992 and 1993 Melbourne Fringe Best Short Work Award for Pessenka, and Tight Shorts, 1996 Moosehead Award, 1999 ABC Best Fringe Comedy Award for The Business…As Usual, the 2003Inaugural British Council Oz export Awardin the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for THE CONCERT and most recently 2005 Most Outstanding Production Melbourne Fringe Award for Not Dead Yet a collaboration between Rawcus Theatre and Taxi.
Since 1995 Penny has regularly toured to Festivals in the UK, Asia, New Zealand and European Street Theatre Festivals, as well as performing regularly at home in the Adelaide, Melbourne International Arts Festivals and Fringe Festivals. »Read More
Clare Bartholomew is a Melbourne based freelance actor, deviser, and director. She works as a Clown Doctor at Children’s Hospitals’ in Melbourne and around Australia and is also a Training Advisor for The Humour Foundation (Clown Doctors) nationally. Clare won the Comedy Festival Foreign Exchange Award, Moosehead Comedy Award for her solo show One Man’s Business. Clare has taught clown and physical performance at various places inc: Victoria University, The Starlight Foundation, Circus Oz, The Tasmanian Circus Festival, Slipstream Circus and The Women’s Circus. Most recently she was the special guest act for the award winning The Burlesque Hour on its Eastern European tour and Melbourne Spiegeltent season and also completed a highly successful seven-city tour across Canada with Die Roten Punkte (The Red Dots) with her company, Tobias & Bartholomew. »Read More
Kate Kantor is a director, teacher , writer and performer of physical theatre. She has been a member of many companies, including Primary Source, The Hunting Party, the TeaBags Marching Band, Strange Fruit, Circus Oz and Melbourne Playback Theatre. Kate has also worked extensively in community theatre, as the Artistic Director of The Return of the Sacred Kingfisher Festival at Ceres, and of the Moon Lantern Festival in North Richmond, and with many other diverse communities. »Read More