Is This Thing On?
By Zoe Coombs Marr

5-9 June 2018 7:00pm
The Cellar Theatre

Brianna is a stand-up comedian. This is her life: an unfortunate name, a boring childhood, slow self-realisation, a late coming-out. Drink. Standing in smelly rooms with strange men who all tell the same jokes. Vomiting on stage. Carrying on anyway. Is there a reason? Probably not. Just a way of coping with her own mediocrity. Whose life is this anyway?
A portrait of a life in a comedy routine. Well, five overlapping comedy routines, from five Briannas at different ages, performed by five foolhardy actresses. It is funny. And it is not funny. It is about being funny when funny is all you have.

"…A kind of Don Quixote for the female comic – a magnificent and stupid quest for one shining moment of specialness which may have already happened." - Belvoir, 2014

Cast:
16: Sarah Doyle
22: Sophie Peppernell
27: Zoë Sitas
35: Kate Wilkins
60: Courtney Henson

Crew:
Directors: Keshini De Mel & Madeleine Gandhi
Producer: Jodi Rabinowitz
Set designer: Rebecca Howarth
Costume designer: Eliza Baume
Stage manager: Natalie Leung
Graphic designer: Elliot Ulm
Sound designer: Georgia Condon
Lighting designer: Jake Parker