The Show
For We Are Young and Free is a one-hour play by award-winning playwright Lorin Clarke, which was performed in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in April 2007, and which was nominated for the Golden Gibbo Award for Best Independent Production.
The play is about a girl (Genevieve) who gets so sick of Australian politics that she seeks asylum in another country. Desperate for inspiration, she imagines a world where Paris Hilton is reading Bertrand Russell, Dancing With The Stars has some actual stars on it (Jackson Pollock and Frida Kahlo do the samba), and the guy who wrote the Australian anthem is apologising for the second verse. Sound like a mixture between reality and fantasy? Welcome to Australia.
The show was performed for three weeks as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival by the following team of people:
- Starring: Miriam Glaser, Dylan Lloyd, Emily O'Brien-Brown, and Michael Roper.
- Written and Directed by Lorin Clarke.
- Produced by Rita Walsh
- Publicity & Design Coordination by Stewart Thorn
- Stage Management by Victoria Woolley
For We Are Young And Free: Relive the Dream
June 7th, 2007
For We Are Young And Free has finished its run in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. For those of you who missed it here are some links: over a thousand people saw the show, which was nominated for a Golden Gibbo Award and was reviewed in The Age here and in local comedy zine The Groggy Squirrel here.
Also check out Lorin's Diary for her latest news and Melbourne International Film Festival updates.
