Aunty Donna Podcast - Tin Roof (Shed) with Honor Wolff

Episode Date: September 5, 2023

To celebrate the upcoming fourth anniverary of Episode 165, Honor Wolff is back in the studio for another instalment of the cult favourite The Tin Roof Shed.  LINKS Listen to Tin Roof Shed by clicking https://bit.ly/adptinroofshed Buy tickets to The Magical Dead Cat World Tour - https://bit.ly/auntydonna-worldtour . Follow @theauntydonnagallery on Instagram https://bit.ly/auntydonna-ig . Become a Patreon supporter at http://auntydonnaclub.com/ . CREDITS  Hosts: Broden Kelly, Zachary Ruane, & Mark Bonanno  Guest: Honor WolffProducer: James Blake Digital Producers: Nick Barrett and Jim CruiseAudio Imager: Mitch Calladine Supervising Producer: Elise Cooper  Managing Producer: Sam Cavanagh    Join The Aunty Donna Club: https://www.patreon.com/auntydonnaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A list-nuff production. Get out legends and welcome to another RIP episode of the Anti-Donna podcast. To celebrate the upcoming fourth anniversary of episode 165, honor wolf is back in the studio for an other installment of the cult favorite, the Tin Roof Shade. Remember, you can get access to bonus episodes and the video version of the podcast over at Antidonaclub.com. Hello and welcome to the Antidonaclub. I'm Broding Killing Your Mark and Antidonaclub. Zachary will wine here. And back for, I'm gonna, can you hear Mark and Arnie go, Zachary will whine here. Buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, and back for, I'm gonna say third. Oh.

Appearance maybe, maybe more. I think so. I don't know. Okay, I'm on his hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, maybe four. Yeah, yeah, I'm maybe four. That counts. I don't know.

I'm back. I'm back. I'm back. I'm on a wolf. Eee. And you're not literally. I am on a wolf right now, everyone watch out, because this baby bites. Hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, thank you. Thank you. I thought it was more like

Anna as in like respect. Oh, you got a hunter. Oh, you got a yeah, oh, you must. Honour on a plot bus on a plane. Three, not a stage name. I feel the need to say that every time. No, it's not a stage name. But it is the name that you refer to yourself as on stage. Oh, it's very true. Oh, and sometimes I'm like, hi, I'm Sandra Bullock, or I'm like, sometimes I'm like, hey, I'm new mom. I feel like anyone with, usually if someone has a name on a wolf,

you find out their real name is like, Blue Bull. Blue Bull Flumble. It'd be something unique, which is normal. Or like normal. Or like normal. Or, Blueble Flumble. It'd be something. Nick, which is, Oh, like normal. I really normal. Super normal. Yeah, which is a,

ethnic is normal. Wow, that was close one. Yeah, too. I almost had a stage name. I almost get myself a stage name. What was it going to be? I didn't want to know what it was. Yes, this is so embarrassing.

Because I didn't want to be categorized as a walk. But then I just looked in the mirror and I was like, there's no avoiding that no matter what my name. It's going to be Samuel Smallbottom. Is that I met a I met a plumber. I met a plumber. This was in 30 year at uni. I met a plumber. He came in his name. This is last name of small bottom. I thought that was cute. In the lineage of the Cumberbatches and Middle Dichos. Yeah. Middle Lee dindles. Yeah, it's Middle Doodles.

I'd love to do that. And then I pitched it to Kim Durbin. What'd you say? Head of our unit. Don't do that. Well, well done by associate professor Kim Durbin. This is something just for maybe listeners who haven't been here for the 900 episodes of this podcast we've done.

On a, we went to the same university, which at the time is called the University of Ballarat Arts Academy. Prior to that, it was called BAPA, Ballarat Academy Performing Arts. After we left, it became Fed Uni, so it became the Fed, Federation University Arts Academy. And then after that, it became something else. Is it something else now? It's not that anymore. Don't know. But when we were there, rock and roll school of rock and roll.

Yeah. Yeah. Jack Black. Jack Black is the teacher. But we went there and we, uh, I'll the very notion is absurd. Oh,

but it's not Jack Black. It's someone from the musical version of the school of rock. The school of rock. Jokoski. Uh, Jokoski or like any one of the ones that have played Jack Black. Yeah, yeah, great. Yeah.

What people overseas, what people overseas might not know about what we do and what we are in Australia. So Ballarat is a city known for being the home of the greatest acting school in Australia. And gold. Gold and gold in acting in theatre. Mal Gibson, Cape Lenship, some of the most- Heath Ledger,

Great Red Hat with. Red Hat with, yeah, Flashback. Clock Gable all went to the university. To Balorat, yeah. And we were luckily accepted, Zach and I first, in we our first year in 2008.

Did you get an A-letter? Yeah, I got an A-letter. I let a means you're straight in. Yeah, that's true. Did you get an A letter? Yeah, I got an A letter. I let a means you're straight in. Yeah, that's true. Did you get an A letter? Oh, fuck it, absolutely. That. So just for the context of people who... They've never told me.

Wow. That, you know what that is? That's classic B letter. B letter means, B letter means you're on a waiting list. If some A letter say no, we'll let you in. Yeah. Who else? Who did get a B letter though?

Who? Lighting you in. The tennis player. Yeah, yeah. You got a B letter. And he said, well, it's insane. If I'm going did get a B letter though? Who? Layton Hewitt. The tennis player. Yeah, yeah, you gotta be let up. And he said, well, it's insane. If I'm going to get a B letter, then I'm going to have to work extra hard. I'm gonna have to live up.

Yes, it's tennis. Who are you talking about? That's why he became a champion. Yeah, no, he got a B letter at Ballarat too. What the fuck? Yeah, no, it's like a high school musical type thing. So really acting was his passion. I mean, no, not, come on.

Like, yeah, no, he got a B letter and then he was like, you know what, I'm gonna do acting. And everyone was like, no, latent, you're about to win, you're about to win the Australian Open. Have you ever win? This was not about it. I'm a Australian Open. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because he got the B letter, where he worked extra hard and to prove himself. You know, he didn't win. He won-Leather. He worked extra hard and to prove himself. You know, he didn't win. He won the US Open. He won the United Day. 19. September 11th.

Yes. Was it? No, he's September 10. Oh, he did it. The day before the actual... He did, yes, he did win the tennis, yes. He did win the tennis. Yeah, he won the tennis.

In 2001. Broden. In 2001. Yes. Wow. Broden? In 2001? Yes. Wow. Broden, you were intending on introducing the concept? Yes, and I'll do that right now. Thank you.

I think he was in the middle of it. Yeah, and then I got on someone said Jack Black is the teacher of the Rock and Rolls. Which I think was you. No, someone else said Jack Black was the teacher. I said Rock and Roll, School of Rock and Rolls. I think I said Jack Black. He said Jack Black and that just got me going. We're just going with you for new listeners on a went to the same acting school as us, which is the best acting school in Australia. Wasn't cold when we went there. Uber University

Palorade Arts Academy. Was it that when you were there? Because you were there after us. We were there at separate times. We handed the baton to you and said, you do your best with it. Yeah, you had to do this race at the start like this baton race. It was a metaphorical baton. Oh yeah. Yeah. Why did you give me a baton? Right. And I got there. You're like, hold this. Oh, this is the way of it. You know, you know, it was cool. Yeah, it was cool. Yeah. And we had you on last time and we showcased a play that we'd all kind of done it, Union, called the TinRoof Shed.

Zach's a green... That is just moaning. That's a moan. That's an ambiguous moan. Sorry, I'm so I was not agreeing with you. Oh, really? What is that? His moans are getting harder to read as he gets to the...

I'm coming! Oh, I see. There you go. And that's why I didn't know that moan. What is that? His bones are getting harder to read as he gets to the point. I'm calming. I see. And that's why I didn't know that moan. Because Zach and I have not been intimate like that ever. I don't think you made me calm. I don't think we made you have that. When of you, thanks.

You have. Particularly in a podcast at some point. No I don't know pretty sure I think I would remember I think we can make sure no tolerance Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm but I don't think you've done anything Let me think on it. Let me think Let me Last time you were on and we did that play there was a huge response to it Last time who was on on a wolf

Oh, hi I am and it was Nick and a Nick and right play. I think and there was a few other people in the collaboration Justin Mojo also right on Justin Mojo. Yeah, Justin Mojo right on Justin Mojo And but it was so successful and I think it we heard back from people in theatre that the re-staging of that place started to happen a little bit. And more stars Cameron Woodhead gave it for stars. Cameron Woodhead was a theatre review.

Yeah, really, really. Alison Croggan gave it a, she just did stars. She gave it a high five. She gave it a glowing. Did you go and see Monash did a re-staging after we printed the script? It was really cute. Yeah, and then they did it again. We're before I was, even printed the script. It was really cute. Yeah, and then they did it again.

We're before I was even though the script is a tool. Yeah, they they took the uni production and did it again for a short run that revolved theater space. Yeah, revolved theater space, which is, you know, it's good, you know, you can do painful there and, you know, it's just the big cabinet space in Kensington and does that. Nothing. No, it does. Anyway, so yeah, what you're sorry, you should do the introduction. I was just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just, just first one. No, the first one was Tim Roofshed.

Right. Right. This was Tim Roof. Tim Roof. A Roof being the sound a dog makes. Or a seal. Or a seal. I believe it's a tale is stepped on.

I believe it was called, for my memory, that was the title, Tim Roof. A family drama in three acts. That's right. So we didn't write this. No, no, no, no, no. We adapted this. This was an American naturalistic play. Yeah.

Was it it? Is that my memory of it is that it was an American naturalistic play in the tradition of Arthur Miller and like a long, long, long days journey and tonight. But it was written more recently at one the Pulitzer. And then we adapted it, made it more avant-garde. Yeah. And when we did it, there was, there's only four actors in it, but we did it with 950 actors. Well, yeah, everyone, everyone has to get it go. We turned

one of the characters into an ensemble of 900. Yeah. yeah, yeah. The spirit of the roof. Yeah, it was the spirit of the roof. That was done by 900 actors. 920 year olds. Yeah, 920 year olds. We're playing one old Asian man, who is originally, it's written for white. And all the 900 of the young 20 year old actors were Caucasian.

Caucasian women in the 20s. Should we tell people who we're playing or should we just jump in? I think we'll go through and just say if you're playing multiple parts or who you're playing to make it clear for people when we're playing. Can I just say the main part I'm playing and then just because I can't remember all of them, I play 40 characters. So they gave, because in L and some ensemble, there was only three men, I believe, and four hundred. Women, yeah.

So they gave, they split the two female parts amongst the four, rather than gender bending, the car. No, no, no, no, no, because that's just disgusting. Why does it make sense, yeah? As you'll see from the text, it's one of those plays, it's just slightly hard to do that with. Well, my main character is a gender bend, but it was originally written for me. Yeah, yeah. And we thought that you would probably do it the best. Yeah. So I play a female part, and then the two remaining female parts were shared amongst the ensemble of 400 women. Yeah.

And then the three men played all 200 male parts, yes, amongst themselves. Yes, that's my memory. Yeah, and I, yeah. But in this, we'll go through. Mark, that's my memory. Yeah, and I yeah, but in this we'll go through Mark Who do you play? I say who you are? And you're roles. Yes, I play Evasive Dan Who is a man who has a sure character description? No, I think I think we'll find out. Yeah, I play evasive Dan Who's a side part,

but that's my favorite part. So I'm the smallest young girl. Smallest roles of the best. Yeah, what you do, the main role is Christmas Jude. Christmas Jude. And Christmas Jude is a character that comes in, tries to bring the family together, but has nothing to do with Christmas

and that's sort of the complex city of the inner workings of the characters. So who you are and who you're playing. Yeah so I play a woman. So woman, I'm understanding another role, I'm understanding another role, but woman is this brown head, hot woman, that's what says in the description, she's quiet, but extremely sexy, but understated, and also has the mind of a child, but the body of a truck. By truck, I mean, like, she's like heavy-built, hot truck, kind of, she has wheels.

And what has a lineage to Optimus Prime? Yes, she has a lineage to Optimus Prime, but mainly she's just got these big fucking tits. Sorry, that's, you know, and it's in the script. It's in the script. But it innocent like a child. Innocent like a child, but big.

And vivacious like a woman. Oh, yeah, exactly. She's a kind of woman that you're like, I can take care of her if I fuck her kind of thing. And it was written by this 65 year old Australian playwright in the 60s. It was quite with a groundbreaking role. It was the only role for women out there. And so I thought, yeah, it was honestly,

when I first played this role, I thought, wow, this is an opportunity of a lifetime. Because before that, I was just playing Busy Pocket. That was just me putting my vagina in the air and people just coming around and slapping it. That was like a more of a abstract piece. It was very good. But you guys loved it. You sort of framed that. Yeah, you sort of framed it. It's much like fond pussy pockets sort of been passed on from Mac than I thought.

But you are most people's favorite pussy pocket. Yeah, thank you. But woman has lines. So woman, Yeah, she's in the play for I think about a couple of minutes But then we're gonna extend that out a little bit. We we we added some scenes because this was a non-naturalistic Interpretation, and we added some scenes. We added six dream ballas from yeah, yeah Yeah, I know you wrote a few pieces. I did. I think five of them got rejected. But one of them, you guys said, yeah, yeah, that makes sense. We didn't really have to say we were students as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it was a, the our lecture, a main lecture. We like to just make assumptions about deep psychology about

us and just go, this is who you are and they would just say stuff. This is what you do and who do you play? I play Maureen. She's the matriarch of the family, a hardened woman who has spent her entire life in the tri-state area. Maureen, since moving to the country, feels a distance from her husband and her children and has a particularly complex relationship with woman, the new girlfriend that her youngest son has brought home. And I play the Knowing Men, Hitchhiker and Captain Pete. I kept the cap to pay. Should I list the other ones I'm playing or just look to?

I mean, I'm happy to, because I missed a couple, but I'm happy to. They'll come up. Yeah, they'll come up. You want to just, you can quickly say. You can quickly say. Quickly say. Who are you playing?

The other ones. The other parts I'm playing. Are we all going to get a chance to do that? Yeah. I'm playing, um, joys, joys, and yeah. And I think I also, I have a couple of lines of, uh, wrap, wrap, wrap, wrap, hot it wrap. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Wrap. Oh, wrap. No, wrap, wrap, wrap, wrap, wrap, wrap. Yeah, yeah. Uh, uh, Zach, wrap on a Zach, yeah. A bzak rap. On a zak rap.

Zak rap. I've just got the script here. Would you mind reading for a, if you'd try again, lady? Yeah, yeah, yeah, just for today. Yeah, no, no, that's fine. Yeah, absolutely. For Corporal Pete. Yep, Corporal Pete.

And, Zak. I'm playing, I'm also playing Charlie, the youngest of Maureen's children, and of course, the young son who brings woman to this party. And doesn't really prepare her for just how deep some of these family's problems. I'm also playing Dark Stranger, unless you wanted to play.

No, no, if you could reef Dark Stranger. And I'll be doing Radio Announcer. I'll be doing Television Announcer. I'll be playing the announcer. I'll be doing television announcer. I'll be playing the delivery. The two delivery. The delivery. Can you do newspaper boys as well? Yeah, yeah, I can do newspaper boys.

You just that whole scene is you. I'm also playing corpse one. And I'm corpse three. Yeah, I'm sand pit McGee, the tiny rabbit that lives in the sand pit. Oh, yes, yes. And I will be playing as well the role of Jan, Jan, who is the mother of Maureen, who has recently had a half of her brain removed. And I'm playing Corporal Jones, which is just a small part, but,

commanding the effort of the ship. I thought I was gonna repay in Corporal. Are you paying Corporal Jones? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm happy to share the role. I mean, we can, oh yeah, no, no. Maybe halfway through. We can, on is gonna play it for the first half

and then you come in tastefully. Active. After on the shoulder and you take over his corporate license. All right. Okay, great. And sorry, and just I also am playing a woman old. Yeah, yeah, yeah, your character is sort of when they're older. When they're older.

It's in a right now. Originally that was played by one actress. Yes, but we split it. But we split it. Yeah. So I'll be playing the right. I'm not playing more rain. Oh, no, no, no, no. No, that's his part. Oh, no, oh, is it? I've learned the lines. Oh, thousands of lines for more rain. Maybe I'm just the understudy. Okay, we'll see how we go.

We'll see what happens. We'll be right back after this ad break when we come back. The play will have begun. We'll just jump straight. New York. 1962. A simple dinner, Charlie said. A simple family dinner. A tradition of sorts. New York. A tradition of sorts. New York. A simple family dinner. I would see Charlie's family that day. And I would also see myself. I am woman. And this is my story.

Christmas is a time. Christmas is a time. Happy Easter. Happy Easter is a time. Happy Easter is a time. Happy Easter is a time. Happy Easter is a time. Christmas is a time.

Christmas is a time. Has sprung. Ha! Happy Easter. Christmas is a time. Give me your cock. You can't speak to me like that anymore. Change.

Welcome to the family dinner. My name is Maureen. I'm Maureen. I'm woman. I have something to say. Oh, such trivial things. And who is your... Who are... Who is... Who are you? But who are you who are you who are you

where what brings you here who are you who are where who are you who are you hey jeez sorry I'm late the plane was morreen I didn't know you were gonna be here. Hello. I haven't seen you since the Vietnam War. It's because I was fighting for the things you believed in. Enough, hubbub. Let's get on with dinner. It was raining that day.

Knock, knock. It's me, Corporal Jones! Hey, Maureen! Wanna go around and get on fuck? Hey, I love that juicy piss I miss ya, baby! Come here! Oh, Corporal Jones, you can't come around here not today. Today's a family tradition at dinner. Ever since your history acting me, you've been a real bitch. Come here and lick me again, please.

I ain't gonna lick you. I ain't gonna lick you ever again! You better wake up, Missy. You better wake up and no, remember you love me. I'm married to that man! I'm married to him and sure it's not pervy. Maureen, wake up. Maureen, wake up. It's me, woman. That's you know, my line. Hey, there's more. James come down here. By the damn. There's more yabby, dad. James and dad. James and dad. There's more yabby down here. All right, where's the yabby's son?

Oh, dad, I love catching yabby with you. Bit of soap on the end of ropes always help me out. Fine in them, yabby. you. Bit of soap on the end of ropes always help me out. Fine and then Yabby does the trick. Son, I, I didn't just bring you down to the creek to go Yabby with me. What are you talking about, Dad? Well, you know how your mother's been gone for the last couple of hours.

Yeah. Oh, mate. She's gone at the shops. The Trojan... And she died. Was 4,000 strong. The walls of Troy were taller than the radio off-worn. No, I'm talking to you mate.

I'm trying to tell you your mom's time. Well, that was the moment that my father told me my mother had died while you have eaten. Never eaten. Johnson, I have had crayfish. Oh, and he's a crayfish. Johnson. Yes, boy.

Johnson, um, no, I'm the cray. And he's a crayfish Johnson yes Johnson um No, I'm the cray I'm the crayfish. I just want you to know that your mom's inside me and she's saying that she really loves you Johnson and she's also saying she saw that thing you did She saw that thing you did you fucking rascal. She saw what you did by the blue mountains That thing you did, you fucking rascal. She saw what you did by the blue mountains. You killed that girl, Johnson. You killed her and you stabbed her with that knife. What are you doing talking to the Yabbies? W-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w You killed. The Trojan War was fought and won in a moment, not a war, but rather a fall.

The men of Troy they died, but we, the women of Troy. We, We stared here A remnant of our city a moment of death Of love Of love Hey, you got any more heroin for me Jack? You know I've always got heroin. I sickle living on the cross here in Sydney.

I just need heroin every day. Hey, hey, hey, what's going on here? I'm selling some Charlie, injecting some horrors. You know what's not cool boys is taking heroin. You know, it's we know. It's cool Rap Yeah, to be or not to be that is the question Hey, keep going Yeah, I can't remember the rest

Remember the rest I can't remember the rest I can't remember the rest I can't remember the rest. I can't remember the rest. I can't remember the rest. I can't remember the rest. I can't remember the rest. I can't remember the rest. The last time I slept solidly was 1929. I can't remember the rest. I can't remember the rest. After I remember the rest.

I can't remember the rest. My breasts turned to nipples and my nipples. I can't remember the breast. My breasts turned to nipples and my nipples. I can't remember the glands. I can't remember the hot tooth. My tongue was tight, wet, mouth. I feel the waking up, feeling something damp on my leg. I remember passing urine. I was finally a woman, doodle.

Blood's dripping down my thigh. Why does this feel good? It's cock, penis, doodle. I take the comb from my thigh. Why does this feel good? It's cock, penis, doodle. I take the gum from my thigh. I pick up the blood. I try it. I brush it against my cheek. My mother was right.

With trying your arm. Blood does run best. Seemun, piss. In the winter moon. It tasted sweet. It tasted like me. Well, I'm a chicken. And I love to beg her ground. I'm a chicken, and I love to beg her ground.

I'm a chicken, I love to beg her ground. Oink, oink, I'm a dog, oink, oink, I'm a dog. I'm a chicken, I'm a dog that's confused. I'm a dog that's confused, oink, o the girl. Wink round. Armadog that's confused. Oink, oink. Putin. Heh. Yeah.

It's me. Jeff Putin. I don't think you should be coming around anymore. I think he knows. Oh, Maureen. I changed he knows. Oh, Maureen! I've changed my voice, because I've been sucking on the nipples so hard that it's gwendid side and made such a taintess to my body. Deep changes.

Corporal, I love you. I love you in a way that he will never understand, but you must understand that I made a vow and as a Catholic woman in 1960s New York, I have to keep to that vow. That's the great tragedy of our love. Lauren, you need to seduce me one more time. Do that thing you always do.

Put out that nickel, put that nickel on your thigh. I make it, make it dance. Nickel. I wanna lick that nickel at marine. I wanna see what's inside your nickel, your body. I want to put that nickel inside you and pretend that I'm, I'm a tiny coin, your coin purse, Maureen. I'm going to lift you up and I'm going to haul you through the streets.

I'm going to put pebbles and nickels inside you. Never made it as a wise man. Couldn't cut it as a poor man stealing. That's how my parents met. And they met a blind man. That's how they made me. She's in love in an sense of feeling in this day. I used to hear them fuck.

They hear foring night. But I don't fuck. I make love. You remind me of what I really mean. First time I fucked someone. Rather the first time someone fucked me. They told me, it's a blow inside them. I did. But I wanted it back.

I wanted it back. I ain't never killed the dog. but I've certainly thought about it. Walking down the streets of London, generations of pain and anger. I see that dog smirking at me. And I think why not? Why not commit the violence that I have known through my life? Why not take this dog and teach it a lesson or two? But I didn't Because I will break this cycle My father killed dogs He's father killed dogs, but I will not kill dogs

I walk into a pub and he offers me a point of beer. Here goes, son. I take the beer, I drink it, then I contemplate. It would be so easy to kill that dog I think, but I dare not say it even in the rough company I see before me. Come on, son. What is it to boo I ask? What is it to boo? I don't know I don't know what do you mean? I Could kill a coin can eat it or I could not kill a dog. What what is it to boo? I don't know what.

To boo. To boo. To boo. My friend, he chimes in from the back of the bar. What is he? He's heard me say to boo the ball. To boo he says. Oh, we're talking about to boo's.

To boo's. To boo's. To boo's. To boo's. Why society? To boo. Why does society say that I cannot kill a dog? Tobbees!

Yet I can take millions, billions of dollars! Like the bank took from me. I was a working class man, and the bank took all my money and not one day a prison for none of them. Anarchy! Danger! Fear. Google. New years, 2004.

Ah, Stacy. Since I met you seven years ago, my life has changed for the better and going into this new year. I Have to tell you yeah, I slept with Marie and Five seconds to midnight you slept with Marie and 10 seconds. I didn't mean to. How'd you do it? With my penis. 20 seconds. How many times did it go in? From count?

Yeah. 30 seconds. From memory? Yeah. 37, 38. 10. How long did it last? Nine.

What did I pussy? What did I wet-cut smell like? I'm your deep, deep fingers? It smelled like I was free. What did her wet cunt smell like on your fingers deep inside her? Well, it smelled like I wasn't holding back for the first time. What did your cunt smell like as it hit the floor? Has it hit the floor of your betrayal?

What did your wet cunt and your gummy cums smell like? Dripping on the carpet like a wet rag in the middle of the night. It smells like... Dingong midnight. I'm Slim Shady, so I'm the real Shady. Or you are the Slim Shady, so just imitate it. No, I'm Slim Shady, I'm the real Shady. And all your Slim Shady's is I'm the real Shady? Or you are the Slim Shady, is it just imitating what? No, I'm Slim Shady, I'm the real Shady, and all your Slim Shady's you better wake up.

I'm Hitler. I'm a reimagining of Dracula. I'm Tim Buck too. I'm Tim Burton. I'm Tim Burton's mind and thoughts. I remember when the director first said we were going to be adapting Tin Shed. I thought adapting,

aren't we just going to perform it? That's when he said he wanted us to prepare monolops. I thought I'll show him. I'll write something about the play that we're in. He surely won't include it. But if he does, I wonder what I'll have to say. Will I have to stand here performing

this strange thing that I wrote and never expecting to do it? Come in. Hi, it's me, Zach Ruein. I'm here to audition for Tin Roof. That was me four months ago. Thinking we were going to be doing a normal, naturalistic performance. Not so far, Zach. Should I prepare the monologue or perform the monologue or, God, sorry, I'm tripping over my words, I'm so nervous. This performance, this audition that I'm about to do, will be using a combination of two acting techniques. One, the techniques of Stanislavski. I will be trying to find a truth in the words. The other will be something more primal,

something known as Leban. See as I move with a flick and a flutter. This is my audition piece. The field opens up before me. I move through it slowly, softly at first. A chime? A sound? No. An animal. In the distance. A goat? A dog? A pig? A goat? A door? It's a door. To where? Another dimension. I walk through it. I see myself. I confront it. I say stop. You can't. You don't know me. You don't know what I've been through. He touches me. And he says, I've always known you.

And that's when the helmet of enlightenment attunes to me. And I walk through the door. Fadre, see the doctor I've got gone around. Do you hate me now? Hate a hard word when there's this much discharge on the floor. Christ. Christ. Jesus Christ.

I say the words. And for the first time in my life, it is not a curse. I am calling to a man I'm not sure exists. I say Jesus Christ, yes, as a curse, your hands. Not a Mary. Look at your hands, Stigmata. Blood. Stigmata, surely not.

Blood. No, I couldn't be bleeding from my hands on the day of my peace. The blood. Wet trips, re-reaking down my pussy. Rice. I feel the blood I cross myself enough Hey Hey, don't you like me like that? Why would you talk to me? Why would you speak to her like that?

Give me another Oh, I've had enough of it. I've had enough of it. Jan, James, I've had enough of the James every night. You asked me to get your beer. Crazy woman, crazy woman. I am your mother. I am your wife. I am the woman that grabbed your semen and put it inside me and built a road.

Built a road to life, your son. Your son by the Yabby Dam. Your son by the Yabby Dam. He's gonna do something fucked one day, Jason. Daddy? Oh, it's okay. No, no, no. Daddy!

No, no, no, no, darling, it's okay. Just go back to bed. Where's Daddy? No, no, no, no, no. Daddy's not here right now. Oh! Daddy's not here right now. Love me, baby. Don't look at me. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, daddy's daddy's not here right now. Daddy's not here right now. Don't look at me, I had a nightmare.

Oh, no, oh my darling. I dreamed I was at a yummy. Janet. Yes? It's time to get back to your mental cell, because your mental, and this is all about a dream. OK. You're time to get back to your mental loony cell.

The twist is that it's all been a dream and you're mental. Dr. Shitse's pants. You're not sp- you're not sp- patient. I want you to be a nice patient. You're not sp- patient is in the next- Well, it's very good. But just to reiterate, you're a mental patient. The twist is that you're mental and this is all in your brain.

Not a dream in your brain because you're mental. Dr. Foster, she shouldn't be out of her room for this long. No, not a dream in your brain, because you're mental. Dr. Foster, she shouldn't be out of her room for this long. No, it's time for her to go back to her mental room. Now, now, now. I see bickering and arguing. I see a moment of frustration. But could we just sit around the coffee table and have a glass of wine.

Thank you. Thank you so much for listening to our That I mean it's a really beautiful play and it's ambiguous like good theater should be Someone can I say very bright view. A guy, we did that, we restaged it at Lama and a guy from community radio came and he did a review for it. Took a shit on the floor as well as he said it was really good, really powerful. Before we get now. Yeah, I think that maybe that I wouldn't have played so many female parts. Yeah, I think that's a little offensive.

You know what's funny, right? If you spend a really long time working on a script, you can sort of understand what's going on. You can draw the meaning from it. But for someone to hear that for the first time with no context, like the people you make, come this your family, your siblings, your friends, it's quite a thing to put someone through, isn't it?

It's unfair. Because we charged $48 for that. Yeah, but it did. Yeah, it's quite a selfish thing. No air conditioning. And yet somehow, once we split, because it was profit share, it changed $48 a ticket. And once we split the profit, it was like $12 a year.

Yeah, I don't know. Which doesn't make, I don't know what that works. But making, I feel like having read it now, making people come and see that, like forcing them to on like friendship or family, you know, like, well, it's really un-indecifiable. But, you know, it's good to see how far we've come as actors. Like, there's I, I, uh,

definitely one of my things to it. Yeah, well, but also I, I tripped up on one of my lines, they're supposed to say, your next patient is not a stage. I was laughing so hard. And old Mark, Mark 10 years ago, he'd given that role in Mark and I'd said, nest patient, I was laughing. And old Mark, Mark 10 years ago, he'd given that old Mark and I'd said, nest patient, I would froze.

I would have froze, I would have not want to do. You'd have gone backstage, you would have punched a wall. I would have been so fucking mad, I would have gone home, I wouldn't have spoken to my partner that I was living with at the time, I would have slammed the door shut, I was like, you know, fucking understand. And it would have really, it would have broken me,

it would have fucking destroyed me. I wouldn't have, I would have taken a week off work but not called in sick, just like not turned up. But did you see me roll with it? Yes, oh my god, it was, ah. Did you see me? You want to say next, but you said next. Yeah, and then I just made it part of the character, I made a part of the play because in real life. And we just, on that next time we do this, just do warm ups on voice and stuff to make sure that it doesn't happen again. Yeah, that would be good.

It did. It fucked that bit up a bit. Well, yeah, but I think that it was then safe. Now, it did ruin the flow though, because then we went to the next bit. It was kind of like, the humour you can find a humour there. And it's one of those things where the flow was sort of ruined because other people weren't able to adapt and change

the same way. No, no, no, no, I think everyone else was doing their role really well. It's just when people don't warm up beforehand, it can disturb. Oh, I want that way. I gotta be honest as well. For me, I don't want to, like, but for me, there's a big difference being 20 years old and performing that at, like, a small black box theater in suburban Melbourne versus performing it in a very high-tech studio.

I feel like for me, not the right place for it or is it even a better place for it. I was conscious of like how deeply alienating this would be for certainly. But man out there who's watching us was really upset by it, particularly like the come dripping down the leg. Because I was like, I had a moment when I was listening, I was like, I was doing it, we were doing it. And I thought, this is funny because I'm familiar

with the in-your-face theater movement of 90s in England, because I went to drama school. Yeah. I'm familiar that this is a parody of a type of theater that's really confrontational. Killing a dog, that's sort of stuff. That's based on a real theater, and it's sort of, but to a listener who's not familiar with that genre,

it's a lot. Is it Sarah Cade? Sarah Cade. That's what I always call it. The guy that wrote shopping and fucking that kind of stuff. But what I think is really, it's been a gift that we've given because the thing about regular people,

like normal, the normies, like as we're as artists. Yeah, we're special. So yeah, art is special. And yeah, the regular people might be like, ah, it has, I'm Brian to listen to this kind of thing. I'll put on math. I'll put on math.

Yeah. Put on, I'll put on reality television. Oh, I've had a lot of work to do. The lowest form of art. The people who don't after like a 12 hour day in a job will cost of living, going up and stuff. Don't have the decency to go home and watch something a bit challenging. Well, yeah, well, yeah.

To the theater and watch the theater. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Watch some theater. It's only 240 bucks for an MTC show now. It's very reasonable and affordable. And they, and they, and they, they're, they're, they want theater to stay alive an MTC show now. It's very reasonable and affordable. And they keep their key. They want theatre to stay alive at MTC.

Absolutely. And they're making it affordable for everyone to go and see it. And every play they do is really good. If you're under 30, you pay 220 dollars. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And you're going to see a good play. So just sit at home and have a cheap dinner.

Go, after you finish it, you shift at the job, go to MTC and see something that is definitely gonna be good for like 950 bucks. I mean, that put three weeks into that. Yeah, three weeks for a week. Yeah, three weeks for a week. With the same actors that they've been working with for 20 odd years.

And you just how you know they're good. And that is how you know. And they are getting the best plays from, you know. Yeah, from West Indian. Like, those actors are putting on good, And they are getting the best plays from, you know, yeah, from, absolutely. And like, those actors are putting on good, good American accents and. Yeah, and I've seen Coussey there, like, I reckon I'm at seven times.

Coussey, BlackRock, the one. Don's party. I think I saw that 72 days. What? I'm a little bit sorry. Why doesn't 98% of Australia, instead of going home and watching something they enjoy? And easy to watch. Go watch Hamlet, or Richard the third, nine-hour production, or Richard the third at MTC for $7,000.

Yeah, go go to Shakespeare in the park where the jokes are still good and you can hear them. Yes, my thing is, you finish a 12-hour day. You finish a 12-hour day. Just with the constant threat that your job is going to be replaced by a robot in the next five years. Yes. Just breaking your back and you go home and you realize your mortgage has gone up while you're saving, you know, you should be going. I think, I think that a lot of people talk about depression in these sort of worst groups, right? I wonder if maybe they went and saw a group of upper middle class actors

playing upper middle class European people sitting around a coffee table talking about like themes like adoption from Africa and that sort of thing that may be they would but that's it's not just that it's three full weeks of people rehearsing that then doing that. Yes, yes, yes, yes and absolutely absolutely there's the three weeks of people rehearsing, a play about issues that might affect upper-middle-class people. In a style of theatre, that has been home over the last 150 years. You know, naturalism is. Oh, but I get why not go to have a 14 hour day at your shift work, spend some of your savings that you have.

Go to a black box production, not even MTC, just a small theater, a small theater where you're gonna see a person screaming, naked, covered in a purple paint, shit on the stage, pick it up, put it on the wall, and you're invited to go around, touch it, and then do the cross on their head. Because that's like, you know what I mean?

So you get the shit. And you do a, you do a, just throw of Tuesday, what the fuck is that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just draw a cross on the head. And let's think about what it's like. That shows a lot cheaper. That's only $60 for a 20 minute show.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But that's only $60. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's the things that you get out of it. When I, if, if math is on in the bound and get anything out of that, they're all in their grimble and their gramblin' and then no one's nice there.

And like each other, when I see a show like that, you have an experience where I'm like, okay, she's sitting on a wall, putting it on your finger, putting it on a performer's head, that's not something I ever wanna do again and I wouldn't have known that. You're learning.

I wouldn't have known that had I known that. It's nourishing of the soul. And I also say, you might be really lucky. Right, if you take a risk at a black box production, you might get really lucky. If you take a risk at all Black Box production, you might get really lucky. And you might get a group of 19-year-old actors doing one of the aforementioned naturalistic like a Don's party or check-off. The stuff you could see with a big budget at MTC and age appropriate You know the age appropriate actors. Yes. Yeah, I've really refined instead of you might get to see a group of 19 year olds

Playing the parts not that they were good for but that they wanted to play yes With Theta it's. Without a set. Agreed. And that's some kind of stuff. And that's our message to you guys, sitting at home or driving to work or in the train or tram or wherever you listen to this podcast is get off your fat ass and go see some theatre. Go get moved. You fucking lost your self.

You fucking lost your self. Yeah. To feel something. Or watch the next bingeable Netflix. No, get off your ass. Okay, fucking ass. Get up. Support Theoded jerks. See you next week. It's good.

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