STANDOFFISH

Winner of Best Production, The Advertiser, Adelaide Festival 2000

A play about sulking and beautiful men and women who keep diaries. A lot of it takes place in the dark and may include hugging.

TO CREATE THE PERFECT ENVIRONMENT. The light, the music, the cleanliness. The pink short sleeve shirt. For a moment you would like to transport your friends to hover above your head to look down at you and admire. Another Triumph! in a life filled with Triumphs!

Sometimes it’s HARD TO BE A WOMAN. Men seething with introspection and ready to bite your head off. WALKING WOUNDED through the world.

HAVING AFFAIRS IN YOUR SLEEP

I was accused of snogging a girl I never met. She had shoulder length black hair and it was down by the canal.

Directed by Gavin Quinn

Designed by Aedín Cosgrove

Music by Brian Mooney

Produced by Aoife White

Cast: Kevin Hely, James Hosty and Emma McIvor

‘Standoffish is the most scarily interactive show I’ve seen in ages. It’s fresh, quite astonishing and completely off the wall.

- WOW Online

‘Weird and touching and absurd and incredibly funny It was truly cutting edge and was the best thing I saw at the Adelaide Fringe 2000.’

- DB Magazine

‘A breath of fresh air from the usual narrative-led fare, superb!’

- Rip It Up Magazine

‘A hair-raising show, that goes beyond common ideas about this art.’

- La Nouvelle Republique

‘Their style is more related to Hara Kiri than Shakespeare.’

- L’Echo France