We Are Nemeses: Talking Experimental Comedy

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What happens when two sides of the same coin try to monetise that coin? If you stare long enough into the void & it stares back, is it now an audience for your work? (thanks for the follow void xx!!!) If a tree falls in the forest & there’s no one there to see it, did it even make content??? Honestly so sick of these trees trying to upstage me!! Does it even know what I’ve been through!?

Obsessed with drafting and redrafting a single piece of content over an hour, two performers (not narcissists) invite you on a journey (not a hellscape) of fast-paced surrealist comedy, quips, disintegration, technology and shameless grabs at relevancy.

Following a season as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, join us at the Wheeler Centre for an Auslan-interpreted presentation of Nemeses – the debut show of the newly-formed duo We Are Nemeses, featuring Alistair Baldwin (Get Krack!n, The Weekly, Hard Quiz) and Vidya Rajan (ABC Comedy, Melbourne/Perth Fringe Award Winner, Malthouse Theatre Writer in Residence) – directed by Michelle Brasier (Aunty Donna, Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell, Double Denim). 

After the show, stay for a panel conversation as the performers are joined by Chloe Alison Escott and host Scott Limbrick to discuss the politics of comedy, and the experimental, hybrid possibilities of the form. How does alternative comedy fit into the Australian comedy landscape? And as the boundaries of what is considered mainstream expand, what exactly is alt-comedy?

Drinks will be available for purchase. The event time includes a 15-minute interval.

This event will be Auslan interpreted.