The New Scum

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Event The New Scum
Venue The Empress Hotel, Fitzroy North, VIC
Umbrella Event Melbourne Comedy Festival 2001
First Date 3 April 2001
Opening Date 3 April 2001
Last Date 7 April 2001
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional Cooperative
World Premiere Yes
Part of a Tour Yes
Description The new Scum is a collection of seven short plays with a live rock band. The show will be touring to three venuesfor the Melbourne international Comdey festival, serving up the blackest of humour along with a thought provoking warning of where our culture is headed. These stories are drawn from the world of The New Scum, a dark and hopeless landscape, within are The Girl who Lived in the Coke Sign above St Kilda Road, Warpigs, Saltmines of the 21st Century, Your Pretty Face is Going To Hell, Garbage, You Pay Peanuts you Get Monkeys, and All the Damn Zombies.
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Drama
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Danica Balara Actor
Jim McDonald Actor
Telia Nevile Actor
Mark Pound Actor
Darren Snowdon Actor
Elliot Summers Actor
Steve Weirdo Actor
Robert Reid Director
James Mackay Lighting Operator/Technician
Anniene Stockton Producer
Robert Reid Writer
Works
Text Nationality Australia
Production Nationality Australia
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Web
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 78394