Godzone
Plays
Tuesday 6:30pm, Wed - Fri 8pm, Sat. 2pm and 8pm, 23rd February - 6 March, 2010 and 10th - 13th March, 2010
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GODZONE
AT THE SEYMOUR CENTRE
By Guy Rundle and Max Gillies
Sydney, Australia, January 2010
There's a fervour in the revivalist tent, where Reverend Kevin of Rudd
Ministries, in a sermon from the German translated via Mandarin, tells
his congregation that religion is the new politics and vice versa....
Sydney, welcome to Godzone: the latest creation of legendary chameleon
Max Gillies - one of the greatest satirical actors of the Australian
political stage; and collaborator renowned political satirist and
commentator Guy Rundle.
Godzone is a political hot potato, tackling the elevation of religion on
the national political stage, head on. Gillies' menagerie of characters
strut the boards - a political 'conference' - at Sydney's Seymour
Centre, from 23 February - 6 March; and the Parramatta Riverside
Theatre 10-13 March 2010; burning a trail of destruction through the
nation's affairs.
Skewering political figures and taking aim at a whole new cast of
victims, Gillies characters and Rundle's words are on fire. Sydney
identities will not be safe! Seymour's preview night on Tuesday 23
February certainly sets the tone with 'Enquiring Minds' guest Bob Carr
in Gillies' hot seat after the show.
Get ready for surprises; Gillies' expert adaptation to last minute
changes has been tested. A flurried re-write when the Liberal leadership
transformed from Turnbull to Abbott during the show's Melbourne
rehearsals delivered up-to-the-minute satire to Melbourne audiences.
Godzone is Gillies' and Rundle's much anticipated fourth collaboration.
Popular tours of the pair's The Big Con (2005), Your Dreaming (2001),
and Club Republic (1996) saw the MTC immediately commission the proposed
show and work began in 2007. The show comes direct to Sydney from
Melbourne - where it premiered in December 2009, and will follow on to
South Australia.
This time around, a political roasting is given to our very own 'Milky
bar kid' - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott,
Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard, British Prime Minister Gordon
Brown, Shadow Finance Minister Joe Hockey, Barnaby Joyce, and Andrew
Bolt to name just a few.
Playing a multitude of characters, Gillies uses voices, prosthetics and
ingenious make-up to impersonate and make mockery of key political
figures and media personalities. With his razor-sharp wit, Guy Rundle
shoe horns a cavalcade of political guests into the Revivalist tent of
Reverend Kevin. Politics is the new religion - or vice versa.
WHERE: Seymour Centre
Corner Cleveland Street and City Road, Chippendale
WHEN: Tues 23 Feb to Sat 06 Mar
Tue 6:30pm, Wed-Fri 8pm, Sat 2pm & 8pm
BOOKINGS: Box Office P: 02 9351 7940
PRICES - (including Enquiring Minds session on 23 Feb)
Adult - $58, Concession $50, Multi tix - $45, Concession Multi Tix - $45
'Enquiring Minds' Post Show Talk 23 FEB:
Max Gillies in conversation with former NSW Premier Bob Carr on Godzone
and satire in politics.
Venue
Seymour Centre @ The University of Sydney, Corner City Road & Cleveland Street, Chippendale
Price
$45 - 58
Bookings
02 9351 7940