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Friday 10 April
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
What kinds of fantasies – sexy, funny and bizarre – do older people have? Watch what happens when we hand over the reins of Erotic Fan Fiction to ageing and older characters.
Imagine a spaghetti-licious Sophia Loren sinking into a hot bath at the end of the day with Helen Mirren … without the notorious bikini. Ice-cool Julie Christie and hot Hollywood lothario Warren Beatty reuniting for one last roll in the hay (though not literally – their backs might not be up to it). Or Jack Nicholson still canoodling with twenty-year-olds, despite his dodgy ticker. Wait, scratch that last one – that was an actual film.
There are no rules as writers push the limits and let their freak flags fly, putting favourite (or notorious) characters into sticky situations that build to a surprising climax.
Featuring
Virginia Gay
Virginia Gay graduated WAAPA, then spent four years pretending to be a nurse on All Saints, six months pretending to be cop on Savage River (ABC), and then five years on Winners & Losers, where she pretended to know a lot about high finance. That last one, particularly, was a stretch.
She won a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Actress for Calamity Jane, starred in the film Judy & Punch which premiered at Sundance, and wrote and directed her first short film Paper Cut, which made Tropfest finals.
In 2020 she wrote two new plays: an adaptation of Cyrano for MTC and The Boomkak Panto for Belvoir, which premiered December 2021. She starred in both and also co-directed The Boomkak Panto.
View ProfileEddie Sharp
Eddie Sharp is a writer, comedian and the founder of Erotic Fan Fiction. He has a weekly comedy show on FBi Radio. He is performing his new hour of comedy 'Big Time Magic' at The Melbourne Comedy Festival from March 24th to April 17th.
Annaliese Constable
Annaliese Constable is a writer, performer and queer rights activist working across standup, queer performance and theatre.
Renowned for self-deprecating and tragic comedic works, Annaliese has been a regular contributor to Story Club, Club Cab Sav, Erotic Fan Fiction and Penguin Plays Rough.
In June 2014, Annaliese presented a showing of her first major solo work, Annaliese Constable Literally, at Sydney artist-run space The Newsagency. Alongside her regular gigs, Annaliese has performed at the Factory Theatre for the Mardi Gras Great Comedy Debate.
She holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong. While completing her degree, Annaliese lead a protest occupation for queer rights that she subsequently made a documentary about, titled Operation Queer Space.
One of Annaliese’s proudest achievements in her life is receiving the ‘Poople’s Choice’ award at Spoken Turd in 2012. Some other highlights in her performance career include singing Fever and dancing seductively while dressed as a cow for Queer Central at the Sly Fox.
Annaliese has spent the last ten years working in sexual health for lesbians and same-sex-attracted women, and is currently participating in Next Wave Festival's Kickstart program.
Catherine Deveny
Catherine Deveny has been a comedian, writer and professional speaker for 23 years.
She’s the author of seven books and over 1,000 columns for the Age newspaper, and is an ABC regular. She has appeared on Q&A five times — sitting next to John Elliott, Tony Abbott, Corey Bernardi, Peter Dutton and Archbishop Peter Jensen.
Deveny has performed five one-woman shows in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and has been named one of the Top 100 Most Influential Melbournians. Her charity and activist work includes public schools, public housing, feminism, atheism, asylum seekers, child abuse in the Catholic Church and homelessness.
She’s a keen commuter cycling ambassador and the co-founder of Pushy Women. She is the creator of the enormously successful Gunnas Writing Masterclasss — running 50 classes in less than 18 months.
You’ll find her performing everywhere from debates at Melbourne Town Hall with Julian Burnside to Splendor In the Grass in Byron Bay.
She has never married and lives with her childhood sweetheart in the People's Republic Of Moreland.
Henry Stone
With a mischievous wit and an original voice, Henry Stone is a writer and comedian, best known for his stand-up and membership of comedy collectives Skills in Time and Fancy Boy.
Beginning his career in Brisbane in 2009, he was invited to perform in The Comedy Zone, a showcase of up-and-coming comedians produced by the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, in 2011.
Since then, Stone has featured at the Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney Comedy Festivals, Harvest Festival, Splendour in The Grass, Falls, Woodford Folk Festival as well as in notable comedy establishments across Australia and New Zealand. Now living in Sydney, Henry has been appearing on triple j, SBS and ABC.
His online sketch comedy has garnered over 2 million views, and last year The Fancy Boy Variety Show won the MICF Golden Gibbo Award.