Welcome to Terror Australis
A hot new live art
cabaret that slices
open the sinister side
of Australia.
WINNER – John Chataway Innovation
Award, Adelaide Fringe 2016.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY MORGAN ROBERTS
Coming to CoCA this September for
two performances during Cairns
Festival, this adults’ only cabaret
transports audiences to the Australian
Outback, into a world of Ozploitation
- a category of low-budget horror,
comedy and action films made in
Australia after the introduction of the
‘R’ rating in the 1970s . Premiering
earlier this year at the 2016 Adelaide
Fringe Festival, it has already been
dubbed an outright hit.
Essentially a deranged outback
nightmare, performed by psychosiren Leah Shelton (Polytoxic), Terror
Australis is a frothing hot mess of
black comedy, anti-burlesque and
hills-hoist pole dance.
“If you like your goon bags swingin’
from a clothes line and your
contemporary cabaret edgier than
a serial killer’s machete, then Leah
Shelton’s your gal.” wrote Laura
Hughes, of The Maggie Journal.
“Leah Shelton performed her physical
comedy spectacularly, never uttering
a word while drawing the audience
into the dirty, grungy underbelly of
Australian pop culture.” (Hitlist BEST CABARET - Adelaide Advertiser)
Shelton’s premiere solo work is a
surreal exploration of the paranoia
that lies deep within the Australian
colonial psyche. True tales of terror
terror
australis
collide with pop-culture, jewel-encrusted
gore, lip-sync, sweat and beer.
Radio Adelaide’s Phoebe Montgomery
exclaimed “Leah Shelton delivers an equally
erotic and manic performance of the most
outrageously Australian burlesque show
ever to grace the Adelaide Fringe”
Not for the faint of heart or easily offended,
Terror Australis is bizarrely entertaining,
annihilating boundaries. “Leah Shelton
is sensational – sensual, erotic and quite
mad” (Tsunami Magazine)
Welcome to Terror Australis
… a sunburnt country where cars rule,
hitchhiking kills and dingoes eat babies.
Down Under, no one can hear you scream
and things are never quite as they seem.
Tickets $29 for Adults, $24 for
Concession. For more information and
to book please contact the Centre of
Contemporary Arts on 4088 1010 or visit
www.artscairns.com.au
WINNER
John Chataway Innovation
Award, Adelaide Fringe
2016
book
today
Call the
Box Office
4088 1010
96 Abbott St, Cairns
artscairns.com.au
8.30PM
SEPT 2 & 3
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