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Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness!
This wickedly funny play by Scottish playwright Anthony Neilson is writing at its most exhilarating: a celebration of the magical, imaginative act of theatre.

It is 1881 and the night of Edward Gant's final performance. Together with his three fellow performers, Gant will present an extraordinary spectacle of melancholia, madness and music through the retelling of a collection of adult fables and fairy-tales.

We meet Sanzonetta, the Pimple-Faced Girl, whose face erupts into pustules that bear beautiful pearls. We also meet Edgar, the heartbroken lover who travels the globe to cure his torment with the help of a fake fakir.

But while Gant and his company enact these bizarre and beautiful theatrical vignettes, it is clear that there is another mystery upon the stage: that of Mr Edward Gant himself…

Director Sarah Goodes' sparkling production uses extravagant costumes to create Gant's wondrous worlds, co-designed by Renée Mulder and the Australian fashion house Romance Was Born. Think a mix of circus, glam rock, national costume, vaudeville, music hall, punk and high fashion.

What I bring you now is no mere Freak Show. You will gasp, yes, and you will marvel and you will see your share of grotesquerie. But the deformities on show this evening are not the deformities of the frame, but those of the heart and mind. Edward Gant

Incredibly funny, deeply irreverent and strangely moving, Edward Gant is set to run riot.

Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness!
Venue: La Boite, Brisbane
Dates: 14/05/11 – 12/06/11
Cost: $26.00 – $63.00
Official Site: www.laboite.com.au


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