Zen the Pidgeon Girl by Sabrina D'Angelo

A woman with short dark hair wears a blue barrette and a red long-sleeved dress. Wth one hand on her hip the other hand is raised to her chin, holding  pigeon.

Presented by Darebin Arts Speakeasy, as part of Melbourne International Comedy Festival

Meet Zen. She’s half-pigeon, half-human. Zen has arms instead of wings. She can't fly, but she can play the recorder, and do tricks with her marshmallow nunchucks. Zen’s on an important mission: to find her lost mum! She must journey up to the sea in the sky. But how will she get there without wings? A seriously silly new action-adventure tale told through clowning, puppetry and music, by Sabrina D’Angelo (Winner – Best Comedy, NZ Fringe 2014).

“Will have you in stitches” – The Age

 

Age Suitability

Suitable for kids aged 4 - 10.

Running Time

Approximately 50mins, no interval.

 

Creative Team

Devised by: Sabrina D'Angelo and Emilie Zoey Baker
Written by: Sabrina D'Angelo and Justin Heazlewood
Music by
: Justin Heazlewood and Richard Cartwright
Produced by: Rock Surfers Theatre Co.

Artist Bios

Sabrina D'Angelo is a theatre-maker working mainly in comedy and puppetry. Recent credits include:Why Do I Dream? (NZFringe 2014-Winner - Best Comedy, Nomination - Stand Out Performer),The Colour White (Westside Circus 2014),Crazy Bastards (Freshblood, ABC and Screen Australia 2014),We Are Happy (Melbourne Fringe Festival 2012), 69°S with Phantom Limb Company (Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York City 2011),The Fortune Teller (HERE Arts Centre, NYC, 2010), andThe Falling Room and the Flying Room (Terrapin Puppet Theatre, Tasmania 2009). Sabrina has received the ArtStart (2011) and JUMP Mentorship (2013) grants. She regularly collaborates with Polyglot Theatre, recently performed with Amanda Palmer in the Spiegeltent as part of the Sydney Festival 2014 and works as a Creative Play Facilitator for the Sydney Opera House.

 

Emilie Zoey Baker is an award-winning Australian poet and spoken-word performer who has toured North America, Europe and Asia as a guest of international festivals. She was also the winner of the 2010 Berlin International Literature Festival’s poetry slam Slam!Review. At home, she performs regularly at arts and literature festivals, and has appeared at the Sydney Opera House and TEDx Melbourne. In 2013 she toured Indonesia with the renowned Woman Of Letters storytelling series, performing in Jakarta and Jogjakarta, as well as a guest on their US tour performing in NYC. Emilie is a 2014 Fellow at the State Library of Victoria. She has been poet-in-residence for Museums Victoria and coordinator for the National Australian Poetry Slam. She teaches poetry and slam in schools and in April 2014, she was core faculty at Canada's Banff Centre. Emilie is also the author of fourteen children’s books and has published several poetry collections.

Justin Heazelwood is an award-winning writer, musician, performer and arts activist. As The Bedroom Philosopher he has released three albums including the ARIA-nominated Songs From The 86 Tram, including Triple J hit ‘Northcote (So Hungover)’, the video for which earned nearly half a million hits. He is a share-household name. In 2014 he released his first non-fiction book Funemployed, about being an artist in Australia.
 
As an author, he was a senior writer for Frankie for five years. Author Neil Gaiman praised his self-published, The Bedroom Philosopher Diaries, as “what all the great rock and roll touring books would have been like, if the people who wrote them had been honest to the point of embarrassment.” Justin is currently working on a series for Radio National based on Funemployed. His TV series Crazy Bastards – a parody of Mad Men set in mid 80’s Australia was launched in June as part of ABC’s Fresh Blood initiative. He lives in Melbourne.

 

 

Image: supplied

 

 

When

  • Saturday, 28 March 2015 | 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
  • Sunday, 29 March 2015 | 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
  • Monday, 30 March 2015 | 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
  • Tuesday, 31 March 2015 | 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
  • Wednesday, 01 April 2015 | 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
  • Thursday, 02 April 2015 | 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
  • Friday, 03 April 2015 | 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
  • Saturday, 04 April 2015 | 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
  • Sunday, 05 April 2015 | 10:30 AM - 11:20 PM
  • Monday, 06 April 2015 | 10:30 AM - 11:20 PM
  • Tuesday, 07 April 2015 | 10:30 AM - 11:20 PM
  • Wednesday, 08 April 2015 | 10:30 AM - 11:20 PM
  • Thursday, 09 April 2015 | 10:30 AM - 11:20 PM
  • Friday, 10 April 2015 | 10:30 AM - 11:20 PM

Location

Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre, 189 High Street, Northcote, 3070, View Map

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