• Created and Performed by: Michelle Hall
• Featuring: Cissi Guitar Demon
• In Collaboration with: Georgie Ivers

Synopsis

The Dirty Mother is an act of civil disobedience, it's punk maternity, electric guitar and exploding pomegranates. The Dirty Mother reminds us that we were all born, that we all have a birth story. Commune with Michelle, the mother-hero in this 21st century D-I-Y Birth Rite as she shits her baby out and breathes it back to life, dirty, but definitely alive and ripe for telling the tale - the one nice ladies are not supposed to tell.

"You absolutely killed it and had me balling my eyes out and laughing my socks off!" Bec Fingher audience member, The Blue Room Theatre, 2020

"Such a captivating performer - one of the most engaging solo performances I've seen...thank you for sharing such a beautiful and tough story." audience member, Summer Nights at The Blue Room Theatre, 2020.

"...this show will pull you by the hair and drag you between moments of pure chaotic energy"**** Fringefeed, Fringeworld 2020.

This project is amplified by Melbourne Fringe through the Ralph Mclean Microgrant program.

Proudly supported by the University of Melbourne Theatre Board.

Warning: Contains mild coarse language, both sudden and sustained loud noises, potentially triggering content or themes, including Misogyny,Mental Health

Reviews

"...gripping, exhilarating and radiates truth. The Dirty Mother is not to be missed." David Zampatti, SeeSaw Magazine

... it’s got everything, agony and ecstasy, anger and comedy, the promise of life and the danger of death.” SeeSaw Magazine, 2019

"...honest, strong and pulling no punches - a welcome assault on the senses." Troy Rule, audience member, The Blue Room Theatre, 2020