Cabaret

Hot Fat Crazy

A musical comedy love letter to the psych ward, being fat, and a lesson in why that makes you HOT!

Dates 04 - 15 Oct
Time 8:30pm, 7:30pm, 10:00pm, 9:00pm (55 minutes)
Venues Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room, Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Meeting Room

$30.00

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Wheelchair Accessible

Bright pink background with 2 people in the foreground. A white male presenting present with short curly brown hair stands side on wearing a cropped pink nurse scrubs, dominantly staring down at a white female presenting person in a blue hospital gown with long wavey brown hair who is kneeling below him side on. She is grabbing at a lanyard around his neck and staring up into his eyes. White cartoon doodles are graffitied over the photograph, pertruding out from behind them and surround them, including Devil horns, a Halo, cigarette, anal beads, flame, rock on symbol, breasts, musical notes and a sock puppet.

Past Event

Cabaret

Image Credit: Rory Lou

Written and Performed by: Tommy & Eadie
Directed by: Aubrey Flood

The true story of one woman’s HOT journey through a very FAT psych ward admission, also she is CRAZY.

Written by and Starring Eadie Testro-Girasole & Thomas Bradford, 'HOT FAT CRAZY' is the inaugural show from emerging comedy duo, Tommy & Eadie.

Our show is based on Eadie’s eye-opening, healing and hilarious experiences during her many psych ward admissions, and her journey of reclaiming the word ‘fat’ and rejecting its negative connotations!

'Hot Fat Crazy' submerges you in a hyper-surreal, silly and sexy fictional Psych Ward, where inpatients get it on, the nurses can get away with anything, and wizards cure your depression with the power of magnets ... Oh, and did we mention the 27 SOCK PUPPETS?!

With a score of entirely original songs spanning multiple genres, Tommy & Eadie take you on a lyrical journey with their powerhouse vocals and musical stylings, while they attempt to nail the intricate dance moves (and impress with their sexual prowess).

This two person musical sketch comedy is a musical love letter to the psych ward, being fat, and a lesson in why that makes you HOT!

Duration: 55 minutes
Age suitability: M
Event warnings: Strong Coarse Language, Some Infrequent/Low Pressure Audience Interaction.
Content warnings: Self Harm Or Suicide, Drug References, Sexual References, Mental Health, Fatphobia, Homophobia.

Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room
Cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts, Carlton, VIC, 3053

Wheelchair Access

Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room is wheelchair accessible.

The entrance to the venue is on Lygon St. You can head up the front stairs and through the main doors, from there head right to get to the Loading Dock.
If you need step free access, there is lift at the front of the building and our team will be able to guide you from there to the Loading Dock.

Once you're in the Loading Dock you can head west and through the corridor to the stairs, and up passed ETU Ballroom and Common Rooms through to the Music Room. There is also a lift if you are unable to take the stairs.

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Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Meeting Room
Cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts, Carlton, VIC, 3053

Wheelchair Access

Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Meeting Room is wheelchair accessible.

The entrance to the venue is on Lygon St. You can head up the front stairs and through the main doors, from there head right to get to the Loading Dock.
If you need step free access, there is lift at the front of the building and our team will be able to guide you from there to the Loading Dock.

Once you're in the Loading Dock you can head straight through to the Victoria Street Building where the Meeting Room is on your left.

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Full: $30.00
Concession: $27.00
Group 4+: $25.00
Extra Applause: $32.00
Blak Tix: $10.00

Member discounts available

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"Fearless and fierce performances ... vocals that rolls off the tongue like soothing honey... both of them bounce off each other wonderfully, complimenting their characters all the way" - Weekend Notes

weekendnotes.com

"This could easily have been pulled from an episode of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which is testament to the writing prowess these two possess." - My Melbourne Arts

mymelbournearts.com

"It takes a particular talent in writing (aided by snappy direction from Aubrey Flood) to make matters of mental illness into entertainment like this." - Australian Arts Review

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Sessions: In Person Events

A single $5.50 transaction fee applies to your booking.

Date	Time	Venue
Wednesday, 04 October 2023	8:30pm	Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room	Past Event
Thursday, 05 October 2023	8:30pm	Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room	Past Event
Friday, 06 October 2023	8:30pm	Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room	Past Event
Saturday, 07 October 2023	8:30pm	Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room	Past Event
Sunday, 08 October 2023	7:30pm	Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Music Room	Past Event
Friday, 13 October 2023	10:00pm	Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Meeting Room	Past Event
Saturday, 14 October 2023	10:00pm	Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Meeting Room	Past Event
Sunday, 15 October 2023	9:00pm	Festival Hub: Trades Hall - Meeting Room	Past Event