Bron Batten

The Last Tuesday Society Presents: “And now I see a darkness.”
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A evening of performance without any lights on.

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Hosted by Rickard Hiiggiins the man with a glow in the dark moustache!

Post-Circus impressario Skye Gellman!

The post-camp darkness of Declan ‘Sisters Grimm’ Greene!

Poet Laureate Telia Neville VIA satellite!

Podcast by Bron Batten!

Musico Ryan Ritchie (True Live, Raah Project) and opera starlet Lotte Betts-Dean!

Stand Up Guy David Quirk!

Comedy Weirdos The List Operators !

The amateur musicality of Choir Straits!

And introducing former star of the amazingly awkward A LOT OF BREAD, songster Madeleine Tucker!

plus CRAFFLE and ANDY Burford the GRUMPY stage manager!

Grumpy uncle Lachlan behind the bar!

And featuring AMY SPIERS working the DOOR!
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and lots more ….except it won’t go for too long like the last one did.
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Studio 246, Sydney Road Brunswick.
$10/$12
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The bar opens at 7.30

The show starts at with the lights in the venue being switched off at exactly 8.01 (sundown) SHARP! Like RIGHT ON 8.01 .8.01 is when the show BEGINS and we turn all the lights OFF and if you arrive late it will be DARK and hard to find a SEAT. Did you GET THAT!?

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Last Tuesday Society, making the desirable affordable

I am part of this project happening at The Cairns Centre of Contemporary art in collaboration with choreographer Jess Jones. We have workshops every day from the 9th until the 18th of November and performances on the 18th and 19th of November.

Details can be found here

The Last Tuesday Society is ready to stuff your stocking full of Christmas spirit at our fourth annual Xmas Special- OCCUPY CHRISTMAS!

Featuring yuletide greetings from artists such as:

THE SUITCASE ROYALE, in a rare Melbourne performance via Edinburgh, London and Sydney

THE LIST OPERATORS catch them before their debut in the Sydney International Arts Festival in 2012!

DECLAN GREENE AND THE SISTERS GRIMM, you can see Declan’s new play Pompeii,LA. At The Malthouse next year

SLOW CLAP, who are busy developing their new show Truth for the Adelaide Fringe

BRON BATTEN, fresh from her award winning season of Sweet Child of Mine at the Melbourne Fringe Festival

POET LAUREATE TELIA NEVILE, taking time out from developing her new show Live on Air at the Butterfly Club in december

PENNY MODRA 3000.com’s very own, back by popular demand!

THE DUTCH COURAGE CHOIR, under the musical direction of Amy Spiers, murdering one of your favourite xmas classics

VICTORIA HEALY straight from a sell out season at the Melbourne Fringe

Plus more to be announced!

Hosted (finally!) by everyone’s favourite Grinch, Mr Richard Higgins.

Catch The Last Tuesday Society a brand new venue: THE BUFFALO CLUB

22 Sutherland Street Melbourne, CBD

8pm, Tuesday the 29^th of November

$12/15

Here is a showreel I made for Sweet Child of Mine. Enjoy!

After an excellent season at the 2011 Melbourne Fringe, Sweet Child of Mine had the honour of being awarded the ‘Best Experimental Performance’ at last nights Fringe awards!

Thus Dad and I will be packing our bags to head to Sydney next year to perform a season at PACT Centre for Emerging Artists. Very exciting!

Meanwhile you can read the reviews:

Read the Sometimes Melbourne review here

The Australian Stage review here

And our Express Media review here

I have a brand new show!

Presented by The Last Tuesday Society and premiering at The 2011 Melbourne Fringe Festival, Sweet Child of Mine is a cross-generational performance work, featuring Bron Batten and her 60 year-old parents live onstage.

Providing frank opinions on theatre, contemporary art, Bron’s own performance history and things in general, their insights are poignant, earnest and at the same time, painfully hilarious. Asking themselves and and the audience: what exactly is the POINT of art?

A mixture of theatre, stand-up, performance art and awkward family function, Sweet Child of Mine will resonate with anyone who has trouble communicating with their family about who they are – or what they do for a living.

Come and hear some Dad jokes – direct from the source.

Sweet Child of Mine is the second piece in Bron Batten’s Guns ‘n Roses Trilogy and features original sound design from emerging composer Edward Gould (Next Wave, Attic Erratic, Choir Straits). Presented at Studio 246, Brunswick’s newest underground arts venue.

A collaboration 27 years in the making- FOUR NIGHTS ONLY.

‘Hysterically funny…’ ArtsHub

‘Strange and delightful… Let you imagination run wild’ Adelaide Advertiser

‘Infectious energy… The audience could not get enough’ Beat Magazine

Devised and performed by Bron Batten and her parents, Jim and Linda Batten

Outside Eye: Gerard McCulloch

Sound Design: Edward Gould

DATES: 28th, 29th, 30th of september, 1st of October
TIME: 7.30pm
VENUE: Studio 246, 246A Sydney Road Brunswick (Entry via Merri St)

Book tickets here: 

Visit The Last Tuesday Website here:

This production has been supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and by The Melbourne Fringe Festival Outside Eye Program through Full Tilt at The Arts Centre.

Watch a teaser below!