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12 - 16 January 2024 | 5 min read | venue: Sydney Opera House | cost: Starting from: $49 | website: https://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/ | address: Bennelong Point, Sydney NSW 2000
published: 02 Jan 2024
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A satire that stings
Dublin-based company Brokentalkers and Adrienne Tuscott stormed the Edinburgh Fringe and Melbourne's RISING Festival with Masterclass. Now it's Sydney's turn. Self-proclaimed geniuses of the male persuasion might want to duck and cover.
In Brokentalkers' first Sydney Festival appearance since 2015 (the bruisingly funny Have I No Mouth), Masterclass melds Adrienne Truscott's comic brilliance with the slippery dramaturgy that is a company trademark in a wickedly funny takedown of the macho artist.
Feidlim Cannon plays a tweedy TV host interviewing a shotgun-toting, dick-swinging playwright (Truscott), for whom 'there's this thing called the truth. It exists and it's pure and we have to seek it out'. But what of those rumours about his backstage conduct - pure, existing truth too?
It's fun. It's familiar. There are wigs. And just when you are getting comfortable with the parody and fake moustache, things take a turn for the meta and real-life rears up to reveal more difficult truths about privilege and power.
Audio Described performance on Sunday 14 January at 1pm
Auslan Performance on Monday 15 January at 6:30pm
Visit the Sydney Festival website for all the details!
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A satire that stings
Dublin-based company Brokentalkers and Adrienne Tuscott stormed the Edinburgh Fringe and Melbourne's RISING Festival with Masterclass. Now it's Sydney's turn. Self-proclaimed geniuses of the male persuasion might want to duck and cover.
In Brokentalkers' first Sydney Festival appearance since 2015 (the bruisingly funny Have I No Mouth), Masterclass melds Adrienne Truscott's comic brilliance with the slippery dramaturgy that is a company trademark in a wickedly funny takedown of the macho artist.
Feidlim Cannon plays a tweedy TV host interviewing a shotgun-toting, dick-swinging playwright (Truscott), for whom 'there's this thing called the truth. It exists and it's pure and we have to seek it out'. But what of those rumours about his backstage conduct - pure, existing truth too?
It's fun. It's familiar. There are wigs. And just when you are getting comfortable with the parody and fake moustache, things take a turn for the meta and real-life rears up to reveal more difficult truths about privilege and power.
Audio Described performance on Sunday 14 January at 1pm
Auslan Performance on Monday 15 January at 6:30pm
Visit the Sydney Festival website for all the details!
Go see Masterclass 2024.
Masterclass 2024 is on 12 - 16 January 2024. See start and end times below. Conveniently located in Sydney. Call 02 8248 6500 for details. Visit their website at https://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/.
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