Category Archives: Suzy’s 5 Questions

5 Questions with Jai Higgs

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jaihiggs1What is your favourite swear word?
Definitely CUNT. Sound it out. C-u-n-t… Feel how each sound moves further forward in your mouth, starting the back of the throat and ending with a sharp, direct spit? It’s like the word is designed to cut through the air and attack the listener. I know it sounds like I’ve over-thought the trajectory of this word, but it’s only because my character unleashes the c-bomb a couple of times in this show, honestly…

What are you wearing?
My corporate slave-wear. Please come and see An Ordinary Person so that we can all make millions and I can overthrow my capitalist overlords to devote my life unceasingly to my craft.

What is love?
A battlefield. Am I right, ladies??

What was the last show you saw, and how many stars do you give it?
Miss Julie at Belvoir. 4.5 stars. What the actual fuck? It was the most intense piece of theatre I’ve seen in a long time. I sat in my seat for five minutes afterwards trying to digest what had just happened.

Is your new show going to be any good?
Fuck yeah. It’s going to make King Lear look like Mean Girls.

Jai Higgs is appearing in An Ordinary Person.
Show dates: 22 Oct – 16 Nov, 2013
Show venue: The Old Fitzroy Hotel

5 Questions with Lizzie Schebesta

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lizzieschebestaWhat is your favourite swear word?
Fuck, I don’t know ? They’re all pretty good. Swear words are the most delicious part of the English language… And so they should be. They offer instant consolation when life sucks balls.

What are you wearing?
It’s 5am. I’m wearing my pyjamas.

What is love?
A mixture of adrenaline, dopamine and serotonin designed to make you procreate and stay alive.

What was the last show you saw, and how many stars do you give it?
Penelope. Ten stars. It was fantastic. Beautifully realised and very funny.

Is your new show going to be any good?
Mind blowingly good. It’ll change your life.

 

 

Lizzie Schebesta plays Jacqueline Kennedy in the world premiere of Love Field.
Show dates: 23 Oct – 2 Nov, 2013
Show venue: Tap Gallery

5 Questions with Pontus Aleryd

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pontusalerydWhat is your favourite swear word?
HelvetesJävlaSkit (Swedish).

What are you wearing?
Undies.

What is love?
Equality, generosity and a lot of fun.

What was the last show you saw, and how many stars do you give it?
South Pacific – 53.5 stars (that’s REALLY good).

Is your new show going to be any good?
Both these plays are very special, Three Winters Green will affect you emotionally and psychologically, and Butterflies Are Free is a fast moving rom-com drama, both with a warm heart.

Pontus Aleryd is stage managing Three Winters Green and Butterfiles Are Free, two plays in repertory.
Show dates: 17 Oct – 3 Nov, 2013
Show venue: King Street Theatre

5 Questions with Luke Holmes

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lukeholmesWhat is your favourite swear word?
Fuck, mainly for the variety. It’s one of the most versatile words there is.

What are you wearing?
Shorts and a t-shirt.

What is love?
When you’re happy to risk a lot of pain for a chance at a little bit of happiness.

What was the last show you saw, and how many stars do you give it?
Penelope at the TAP Gallery. 4 out of 5 stars.

Is your new show going to be any good?
Triune will be three whole types of awesome 🙂

 

Luke Holmes is writer and performer of Triune.
Show dates: 22 Nov – 7 Dec, 2013
Show venue: TAP Gallery

5 Questions with Marc Kay

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marckayWhat is your favourite swear word?
Mother F**ker.

What are you wearing?
Shorts and t-shirt.

What is love?
$200/hour.

What was the last show you saw, and how many stars do you give it?
Jerusalem at New Theatre, 4 out of 5 stars.

Is your new show going to be any good?
No, it will be great.

 

 

Marc Kay plays Mickey the gambling addict cousin from Brisvegas in The Good, The Bad And The Lawyer.
Show dates: 10 – 27 Oct, 2013
Show venue: TAP Gallery

5 Questions with Brigid O’Sullivan

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brigidosullivanWhat is your favourite swear word?
Bollocks.

What are you wearing?
My pj’s – purple silk nightie.

What is love?
A higher power outside yourself.

What was the last show you saw, and how many stars do you give it?
JD Burgess And Friends at El Rocco – 4 stars.

Is your new show going to be any good?
Of course, I’m in it! Just joking. Unadulterated silliness is always good so we will have a great show.

 

Brigid O’Sullivan plays nosey journalist Rhonda in The Good, The Bad And The Lawyer.
Show dates: 10 – 27 Oct, 2013
Show venue: TAP Gallery

5 Questions with David Halgren

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davidhalgrenWhat is your favourite swear word?
The C word. These days, it’s hard to find an effective swear word that hasn’t been completely desensitised. The C word still works. It’s those consonants. Consonants get me hot.

What are you wearing?
Shorts and a t-shirt. It’d feel completely like summer if not for the hay fever. Hey, that’s the name of our play!

What is love?
Baby, don’t hurt me. I’m sure I’m the first to use that one? Haha, but seriously, don’t.

What was the last show you saw, and how many stars do you give it?
Fireface at ATYP for Under The Wharf. 4 out of 5 stars. Beautifully directed by Luke Rogers.

Is your new show going to be any good?
It’s going to be all kinds of good. I’m working with a talented and generous cast. Coward’s wit is a joy to play, but it’s also extraordinarily technical and relies on a perfectionist’s mind to deliver said wit. Fortunately for you, we’re all perfectionists.

David Halgren is starring in Hay Fever, by Noel Coward.
Show dates: 8 Oct – 2 Nov, 2013
Show venue: New Theatre

5 Questions with Jordan Shea

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rsz_jordysheaWhat is your favourite swear word?
Shit. I find myself saying it over and over, and it can really be used in both a positive and negative way. If you’re called ‘The Shit’, that’s good, if you are ‘Shit’ well, that’s bad.

What are you wearing?
Chinos I bought recently from the Big Apple, and a t-shirt that promotes my current show: Company. I’m barefoot!

What is love?
Baby don’t hurt me. No, Love is indescribable, it’s a terrific feeling, but one that can come with a lot of weird quirks. It’s like a big beautiful mudcake. You take a bite, and it’s great, but then you can taste different things in it. I was fat as a child.

What was the last show you saw, and how many stars do you give it?
Last show I saw was Michael Jackson’s Cirque Du Soleil, that was pretty enormous and impressive. But the last play I saw was Return To Earth by Lally Katz, that was a lot of fun in a good space, highly recommended.

Is your new show going to be any good?
It really is. We live in a city where the work of such a brilliant composer (Sondheim) is vaguely touched upon, but when it is, it’s done brilliantly. This is a prime example. It’s definitely not a typical musical, but more of an intimate play with songs.

Jordan Shea is appearing in Company.
Show dates: 2 – 12 Oct, 2013
Show venue: King Street Theatre

5 Questions with Laura-Beth Wood

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laurabethwoodWhat is your favourite swear word?
I couldn’t possibly say – you would never catch me swearing 🙂

What are you wearing?
Nothing.

What is love?
Ha, I am not the right person to ask that question.

What was the last show you saw, and how many stars do you give it?
Alice – my friends were in it, so I think it was amazing 5/5.

Is your new show going to be any good?
It is going to be amazing. We have an outstanding cast who have all worked so hard. They sound and look terrific. I am really proud of them!

 

Laura-Beth Wood is choreographer for Fame: The Musical.
Show dates: 2 – 5 Oct, 2013
Show venue: Pymble Ladies College

5 Questions with Adriano Cianfarani

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adrianocianfaraniWhat is your favourite swear word?
Fuck. It is short and direct.

What are you wearing?
I would love to say I was in a dashing Armani suite, with 24k gold-dipped cufflinks, but my wallet is laughing at me right now. I’m actually wearing lovably worn slacks and a t-shirt. I call it understated, but with attitude.

What is love?
The title of a song by Haddaway.

What was the last show you saw, and how many stars do you give it?
I actually haven’t seen any shows for a while, I’m ashamed to admit.

Is your new show going to be any good?
Come see and find out.

Adriano Cianfarani is starring in Family Voices, by Harold Pinter.
Show dates: 2 – 6 Oct, 2013
Show venue: University of Notre Dame Theatre Space