Writer: Laura Imbruglia
Hear ye, Hear ye!
Fantastically wonderful Melbourne-based queer DIY theatre group Sisters Grimm are back with a new show – the world premiere of “Lilith: The Jungle Girl” at MTC, and tickets have just gone on sale. (Side note…their website, which I just hyperlinked, is the shittiest/best thing ever).
I’ve been obsessively following these guys and their work since I saw their sell-out award-winning production “The Sovereign Wife” a few years back at MTC. I also caught “Summertime In The Garden of Eden” and then watched them up their production ante 10,00-fold with the masterpiece that was “Calpurnia Descending“, which featured live greenscreen work. If you can just pause and think about what kind of detail and precision might be required to pull off live green screen then add brilliant script, casting and performances to that equation you will only be close to processing the wonder that was that show.
These guys make hilarious, intelligent, important theatre. I can’t recommend them enough.
“Lilith: The Jungle Girl” synopsis-
“When a young wild girl is captured in the rainforests of Borneo, all of Holland is set abuzz. The year is 1861, and pioneering neuroscientist Charles Penworth is called upon to raise the child from the pit of her animal nature. But as Lilith learns to tame her feral heart and live amongst the glitterati of colonial Amsterdam, she begins to wonder, who, indeed, is the real savage?
Theatrical wunderkinds Sisters Grimm…take audiences on an epic, genre-defying journey – equal parts The Elephant Man and She’s All That.”
Do yourself a favour and buy some tickets before it sells out, and expect your mind to be expanded and inevitably blown.
P.S. You may remember Ash Flanders, one half of Sisters Grimm, from his spotlight interview with us in Season One…
