The Last Tuesday Society is an alternative, vaudeville style performance platform that allows emerging and established artists to take artistic risks and develop their individual practice.
The Last Tuesday Society represents a devoted community of artists that are committed to pushing artistic boundaries, questioning the nature of theatre and art and bringing a much needed rush of fresh energy and exuberance back into Melbourne’s performance environment.
Since its inception, The Last Tuesday Society has been dedicated to supporting and developing individual and collective arts practice, presenting new short works from such diverse artists as The Suitcase Royale, The Black Lung Theatre and Whaling Firm, Declan Greene and The Sisters Grimm, The List Operators, POST, Elbow Room, Poet Laureate Telia Nevile and visual artists The Safari Team, Amy Spiers and Tai Snaith. We have also presented international acts such as Red Bastard, New York performance artist Julie Atlas Muz and UK comedians David O’Doherty and Josie Long.
Hosted, curated and produced by Richard Higgins and Bron Batten, The Last Tuesday Society has been presented at inner city venues such as The Old Bar, Yah Yah’s and The Order of Melbourne. The Last Tuesday has also hosted festival clubs, including Tuesday nights at the HiFi Bar and Ballroom for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and The Melbourne Fringe Festival at The North Melbourne Town Hall.
The Last Tuesday Society presented Comfort Zones at Witches in Britches Theatre Restaurant as part of the 2010 Next Wave Festival and staged events at the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland, This Is Not Art Festival (TINA) in Newcastle, NSW and as part of The Village at The Falls Music festival in Lorne. Most recently The Last Tuesday premiered their new project Pimp My Play, presenting Nick Enright’s Black Rock in an abstract vaudeville format.
Visit our website here
Read an article written about us by The Black Lung’s Thomas Henning here
Read a review of Comfort Zones on Arts Hub here, A review of our 2010 Christmas Special here, and a review of our 2011 june edition at The Grace Darling here
You can also watch a promo here:
