Podcast appearances and mentions of elaine crombie

Elaine Crombie is a powerhouse of an actor and singer on stage and screen. Her new role sees her performing with Bangarra Dance Theatre in Wudjang: Not the Past — a co-production with the Sydney Theatre Company at the Sydney Festival. Also, we're joined by Bangarra's artistic director Stephen Page and his recently announced successor Frances Rings and we visit Australian artists from Circa currently navigating a tangled web of border closures and health measures on tour in Europe.

Elaine Crombie is a powerhouse of an actor and singer on stage and screen. Her new role sees her performing with Bangarra Dance Theatre in Wudjang: Not the Past — a co-production with the Sydney Theatre Company at the Sydney Festival. Also, we're joined by Bangarra's artistic director Stephen Page and his recently announced successor Frances Rings and we visit Australian artists from Circa currently navigating a tangled web of border closures and health measures on tour in Europe.

Elaine Crombie is a powerhouse of an actor and singer on stage and screen. Her new role sees her performing with Bangarra Dance Theatre in Wudjang: Not the Past — a co-production with the Sydney Theatre Company at the Sydney Festival.Also, we're joined by Bangarra's artistic director Stephen Page and his recently announced successor Frances Rings and we visit Australian artists from Circa currently navigating a tangled web of border closures and health measures on tour in Europe.

This week we're asking the tough questions on car park costs, winning words, how big a dwarf-cow is as well as Australian sporting achievements. Actors, comedians and writers Elaine Crombie and and Charlie Pickering face off in this instalment of Let's Get Quizzical to see who knows more about the news, politics and popular culture that unfolded this week. Guests Elaine Crombie, actor, writer, performer, comedian, singer and songwriter Steven Oliver, actor, comedian and writer

Elaine Crombie and Wendy Mocke discuss living in (and essential watching) during lockdown and motherhood along with activism and collective support during the Black Lives Matter movement. Elaine Crombie is an actor, singer, songwriter and writer with a career that spans over 20 years, with extensive theatre work Elaine started with Queensland Theatre Company and has since worked with Bangarra Dance Theatre, Belvoir Street Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre Company and other various theatre companies. Wendy Mocke is a Papua New Guinean inter-disciplinary storyteller. She is a NIDA Acting graduate and currently an emerging writer at Sydney Theatre Company. Wendy has performed on stages across Sydney and last year her play Jelbu Meri, who she co-wrote with Phoebe Grainer, was featured in Darlinghurst Theatre Company's development program ‘Next In Line'.

"Votes cannot be cast after the Poles are closed." This is one true and factual statement tweeted by the US President, Donald Trump, as the world awaits US election results. Here in Australia, our existence in the future is doing nothing to help us glean who will win in this knife-edge race. So instead we do what Australian media does best, fish for an Adjacent Australian Angle ™ ​with thanks to The Chaser and Ronny Chieng.Big Mob Brekky is here to shake up breakfast television, even if it's only for one week — for now. Shahni Wellington and Ryan Liddle, hosts of NITV's NAIDOC Week breakfast TV show, Big Mob Brekky, join Stop Everything! to share their vision for this hotly contested network TV slot. The program will broadcast live from Taronga Zoo, Monday to Friday the week of November 9-14, with special segments presented by Luke Carroll, Elaine Crombie and appearances from Emma Donovan, Mitch Tambo and more.Reputation Rehab: Zoe Norton Lodge and Kirsten Drysdale talk to BW and HR about their new ABC TV program which looks at the impact of public shaming and what can be done to rehabilitate the shamed, and the shamers. Show notes:"votes cannot be cast after the poles are closed" https://deadline.com/2020/11/donald-trump-tweet-censored-poles-1234608879/Compulsory voting in America? Ronny Chieng https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij1Dvw1vC5oThe Chaser loses their blue tick https://junkee.com/chaser-twitter-suspended-trump/277004Big Mob Brekky https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2020/10/14/sbs-nitv-are-celebrating-naidoc-new-morning-showThe Guardian review: Reputation Rehab https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/oct/28/

"Votes cannot be cast after the Poles are closed." This is one true and factual statement tweeted by the US President, Donald Trump, as the world awaits US election results. Here in Australia, our existence in the future is doing nothing to help us glean who will win in this knife-edge race. So instead we do what Australian media does best, fish for an Adjacent Australian Angle ™ ​with thanks to The Chaser and Ronny Chieng. Big Mob Brekky is here to shake up breakfast television, even if it's only for one week — for now. Shahni Wellington and Ryan Liddle, hosts of NITV's NAIDOC Week breakfast TV show, Big Mob Brekky, join Stop Everything! to share their vision for this hotly contested network TV slot. The program will broadcast live from Taronga Zoo, Monday to Friday the week of November 9-14, with special segments presented by Luke Carroll, Elaine Crombie and appearances from Emma Donovan, Mitch Tambo and more. Reputation Rehab: Zoe Norton Lodge and Kirsten Drysdale talk to BW and HR about their new ABC TV program which looks at the impact of public shaming and what can be done to rehabilitate the shamed, and the shamers. 

"Votes cannot be cast after the Poles are closed." This is one true and factual statement tweeted by the US President, Donald Trump, as the world awaits US election results. Here in Australia, our existence in the future is doing nothing to help us glean who will win in this knife-edge race. So instead we do what Australian media does best, fish for an Adjacent Australian Angle ™ ​with thanks to The Chaser and Ronny Chieng. Big Mob Brekky is here to shake up breakfast television, even if it's only for one week — for now. Shahni Wellington and Ryan Liddle, hosts of NITV's NAIDOC Week breakfast TV show, Big Mob Brekky, join Stop Everything! to share their vision for this hotly contested network TV slot. The program will broadcast live from Taronga Zoo, Monday to Friday the week of November 9-14, with special segments presented by Luke Carroll, Elaine Crombie and appearances from Emma Donovan, Mitch Tambo and more. Reputation Rehab: Zoe Norton Lodge and Kirsten Drysdale talk to BW and HR about their new ABC TV program which looks at the impact of public shaming and what can be done to rehabilitate the shamed, and the shamers. 

"Votes cannot be cast after the Poles are closed." This is one true and factual statement tweeted by the US President, Donald Trump, as the world awaits US election results. Here in Australia, our existence in the future is doing nothing to help us glean who will win in this knife-edge race. So instead we do what Australian media does best, fish for an Adjacent Australian Angle ™ ​with thanks to The Chaser and Ronny Chieng. Big Mob Brekky is here to shake up breakfast television, even if it's only for one week — for now. Shahni Wellington and Ryan Liddle, hosts of NITV's NAIDOC Week breakfast TV show, Big Mob Brekky, join Stop Everything! to share their vision for this hotly contested network TV slot. The program will broadcast live from Taronga Zoo, Monday to Friday the week of November 9-14, with special segments presented by Luke Carroll, Elaine Crombie and appearances from Emma Donovan, Mitch Tambo and more. Reputation Rehab: Zoe Norton Lodge and Kirsten Drysdale talk to BW and HR about their new ABC TV program which looks at the impact of public shaming and what can be done to rehabilitate the shamed, and the shamers.  Show notes: "votes cannot be cast after the poles are closed" https://deadline.com/2020/11/donald-trump-tweet-censored-poles-1234608879/ Compulsory voting in America? Ronny Chieng https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij1Dvw1vC5o The Chaser loses their blue tick https://junkee.com/chaser-twitter-suspended-trump/277004 Big Mob Brekky https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2020/10/14/sbs-nitv-are-celebrating-naidoc-new-morning-show The Guardian review: Reputation Rehab https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/oct/28/

The girls chat to Elaine Crombie and figure out the best shows to binge as well as Yumi coming across what could be the song of 2020See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The girls chat to Elaine Crombie and figure out the best shows to binge as well as Yumi coming across what could be the song of 2020

We're stoked this week to bring you a chat with our girl crush, the fabulous Actor, Comedian and Director, Elaine Crombie. After gushing over our love of her work on the 2017 series Kiki and Kitty (where she plays a vagina in human form), we spoke to Elaine about how to become better allies to our BIPOC brothers and sisters and her Share The Mic Now takeover of Tanya Hennessy's Insta page. Elaine also talked to us about uplifting and championing fellow performers and her early years growing up with her white foster grandparents and missing that strong connection to her cultural roots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We’re stoked this week to bring you a chat with our girl crush, the fabulous Actor, Comedian and Director, Elaine Crombie. After gushing over our love of her work on the 2017 series Kiki and Kitty (where she plays a vagina in human form), we spoke to Elaine about how to become better allies to our BIPOC brothers and sisters and her Share The Mic Now takeover of Tanya Hennessy’s Insta page. Elaine also talked to us about uplifting and championing fellow performers and her early years growing up with her white foster grandparents and missing that strong connection to her cultural roots.

We've got an amazing extended chat for you with Elaine Crombie about her joining the #sharethemicnow movement and her stint on Tanya Hennessy's instagram.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We've got an amazing extended chat for you with Elaine Crombie about her joining the #sharethemicnow movement and her stint on Tanya Hennessy's instagram.

In this Helpmann Awards special, we revisit some of our favourite moments with this year's crop of nominees. S. Shakthidharan's massive play Counting and Cracking presents a Sri Lankan family's experiences in Australia and during the civil war, Ursula Yovich's Barbara and the Camp Dogs takes us on a wild musical road trip from Sydney to Katherine, Australian Dance Theatre's Beginning of Nature moves to the rhythm of Kaurna, and Willy Wonka throws open the doors to his chocolate factory in a new stage musical.

In this Helpmann Awards special, we revisit some of our favourite moments with this year's crop of nominees. S. Shakthidharan's massive play Counting and Cracking presents a Sri Lankan family's experiences in Australia and during the civil war, Ursula Yovich's Barbara and the Camp Dogs takes us on a wild musical road trip from Sydney to Katherine, Australian Dance Theatre's Beginning of Nature moves to the rhythm of Kaurna, and Willy Wonka throws open the doors to his chocolate factory in a new stage musical.

Diversity in media, whether within traditional outlets or on social media platforms, Indigenous voices are increasingly challenging new audiences.

Diversity in media, whether within traditional outlets or on social media platforms, Indigenous voices are increasingly challenging new audiences.

Theatre and opera director Barrie Kosky talks us through his brilliantly outlandish reimagining of Mozart's The Magic Flute, we learn about the integral, but sometimes unnoticed, work of sound designers with J. David Franzke, and Ursula Yovich's Barbara and the Camp Dogs takes us on a wildly funny and unflinchingly honest musical road trip from Sydney to Katherine.

Elaine Crombie, singer/song-writer and actor discusses her career and her current role in Astroman, Described as “the ultimate love letter to the 80s, the play written by Albert Belz is currently showing at Arts Centre […] http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_urbandreaming/p/joy.org.au/urbandreaming/wp-content/uploads/sites/336/2018/11/2018-11-13-UrbanDreaming-ElaineCrombie.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 51:46 — 35.6MB) The post Elaine Crombie talks about Astroman appeared first on Urban Dreaming.

Celebrating 25 Years of the Indigenous Unit at Screen Australia with Warwick Thornton, Elaine Crombie, Hunter Page-Lochard, Penny Smallacombe and Dylan River. We talk to some of the most talented people working in Indigenous film in Australia about what to expect from the next 25 years of Indigenous filmmaking in this country and how far we've come. This is a call to arms for young Indigenous filmmakers to find ways to make movies.

Actors Elaine Crombie and Shari Sebbens on the women who inspire them, Eddie Ayres and Danielle Solzman on why Scarlett Johansson is facing backlash over her upcoming role as a transgender man, what's fascinating about Sharp Objects and You Can't Ask That

Actors Elaine Crombie and Shari Sebbens on the women who inspire them, Eddie Ayres and Danielle Solzman on why Scarlett Johansson is facing backlash over her upcoming role as a transgender man, what's fascinating about Sharp Objects and You Can't Ask That

Actors Elaine Crombie and Shari Sebbens on the women who inspire them, Eddie Ayres and Danielle Solzman on why Scarlett Johansson is facing backlash over her upcoming role as a transgender man, what's fascinating about Sharp Objects and You Can't Ask That

Sales and Crabb look back at the best of 2017. Recorded live at Llewellyn Hall, ANU on Sat 9 December.The matching outfits - Sales and Crabb didn't cross check their wardrobes.12 days of Christmas - as performed by Crabb and SalesPaul McCartney on six decades of making music - interviewed by Leigh Sales (via ABC 7.30, 2017 Dec 04)Interviewing your heroes can have its pitfalls, but Paul McCartney avoids them all - by Leigh Sales (via ABC 7.30, 2017 Dec 05)Armando Iannucci in Conversation with Annabel Crabb - Wheeler Centre (2017 May 08)Rachel Cusk - Author profile (via Goodreads)Outline - Rachel CuskPrayer For Owen Meany - by John IrvingCardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell - by Louise MilliganA Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work - by Bernadette BrennanGood Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women - by Elena Favilli, Francesca CavalloNot for the Faint-hearted: A Reflection on Life, Politics and Purpose - by Kevin RuddSassy Trump - by Peter Serafinowicz (via YouTube)I Have a Message for You - by Matan Rochlitz (NYT Op-Docs, 2017 Oct 10)Ben Mendelsohn performs 'The Lion King' - TripleJ interview (via YouTube)Brad Pitt Talks Divorce, Quitting Drinking, and Becoming a Better Man - by Michael Paterniti (GQ, 2017 May 03)Who let Brad Pitt's fashotainment shoot happen? - by Marina Hyde (Guardian, 2017 May 05)The Handmaid's Tale - 10 part TV series adapted from the novel by Margaret AtwoodThe People v. O.J. Simpson : American Crime Story - Netflix DramaMaster of None, Season 2 - starring Aziz AnsariThe simple beauty of Master of None season 2's long Uber ride home - by Christopher Hooton (The Independent 2017 May 25)Hidden Figures - biographical drama about 3 African-American women working at NASAO.J. Made in Amereica - A documentary examining Simpson's 1995 trial through the lens of the history of race relations in Los Angeles.O'Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith: making modernism - Art Gallery of NSW (1 Jul - 2 Oct 2017)Dior exhibition - National Gallery of Victoria (27 Aug - 7 Nov 2017)Revisionist History Season 2 - Podcast with Malcolm Gladwell- Miss Buchanan's Period of Adjustment - Season 2 Ep3S-Town Podcast Crack: chocolate caramel crack(ers) - original recipe via Smitten KitchenSpiced pumpkin cookies - take your pick!Sour Heart - by Jenny ZhangGelato Messina Pistachio Praline - fior di latte gelato with white chocolate and pistachio fudge and pistachio pralineDixie Chicks - Melbourne 2017 1st AprilBarbara and the Camp Dogs - starring Ursula Yovich, Elaine Crombie Belvoir Theatre (2017 Dec 2-23)Kiki and Kitty: follows the adventures of a young, black woman in a big, white world, where her vagina is her best friend - starring Nakkiah Lui and Elaine Crombie.Voters Abandoned Parliament's Biggest Marriage Equality Opponents - by Josh Butler (HuffPost, 2017 Nov 15)Labor MP Emma Husar's full speech: 'I am a survivor of family violence' - (via SMH 2017 Nov 24)Jacqui Lambie bids tearful farewell to Senate after shock British citizenship finding forces her out - by Lucy Sweeney (via ABC News 2017 Nov 15)The Death of Stalin - directed by Armando IannucciThe Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - by Stuart TurtonFlora's Fancies - by Leigh Sales (Cover designed by Amelia Manzies, Paperchain bookstore, Manuka) (See also backcover)The Crown (Season 2) - starring Claire Foy and Matt SmithDeadly Kerfuffle - by Tony MartinDavid Hockney Retrospective - Metropolitan Museum of Art (2017 Nov 27 - 2018 Feb 25)Hello, Dolly! - Starring Bette MidlerAustralian Parliament Breaks Into Song After Passing Same-Sex Marriage Law - by Lydia Smith (The Independent 2017 Dec 7)John Redwood, Secretary of State for Wales - singing the National Anthem - 1993 (via YouTube)Malcolm Turnbull Couldn't Name His Favourite 'AC/DC' Song On Triple M - by Karen Barlow (HuffPost Australia 2017 Nov 20)Chat 10 Looks 3 - artwork presented to Sales and Crabb by the ANU (artist Lucien)

Belvoir is bringing rock ‘n’ roll back to Surry Hills this December with the powerful new Australian work, Barbara and the Camp Dogs. The extraordinary Ursula Yovich plays Barbara, a gutsy front woman burnt out by the Sydney music scene. When the feisty Barbara heads back to country with her sister René, she is forced to face the past she's been running from her whole life. Step behind the scenes with co-writers Alana Valentine and Ursula Yovich, and actor Elaine Crombie as they discuss this powerful new work. Writers Ursula Yovich & Alana Valentine Director Leticia Cáceres Podcast produced for Belvoir by Zoe Ferguson  2 - 23 DECEMBER BOOK HERE

Blaque Showgirls is a merciless interrogation of Australian racism in the form of a stage parody of dance movies, including, of course, Showgirls (1995). Written by Nakkiah Lui, the acclaimed Aboriginal activist and playwright who recently worked on the ABC’s Black Comedy, it’s a play that mocks and borrows from film and tv in equal measure. Eugyeene Teh’s set design even resembles a television set as well as a theatre within a theatre, something that director Sarah Giles takes full advantage of. Voiceover abounds instead of theatrical asides. Jed Palmer’s musical score provides the cheese while the cast brings the delicious ham. Humorous captions race above the actors’ heads, and are easy to miss unless you’re paying close attention. Naturally, it ticks of all the obligatory dance movie scenes, albeit with more than a slight twist: a “montage of moderate success”; the arrival-in-the-big-city scene; the audition poster that blows into our protagonist’s face at just the right moment (here the wind is a stagehand carrying a pole); the jealous antagonist dancer throwing a tantrum at her dressing room mirror just before she hatches her third-act scheme. Lui’s story follows the blundering young Ginny Jones (Bessie Holland) an orphan from the town of Chitole (pronounced shi-toll). She dreams of moving to Brisvegas and joining the Blaque Showgirls. She might not be black, but she refuses to let that stop her, no matter how much people mock her for it. Apparently her mother was the best Aboriginal dancer in the country. She is adamant that she can remember looking up at her brown face when she was a baby, just before she was accidentally killed during smoking ceremony that apparently gave Ginny brain damage. In any case, the local Indigenous community are happy to see her go. One elder in particular, her would-be mentor figure (Elaine Crombie) is fed up with her thoughtless lack of cultural sensitivity and is happy to let Brisvegas knock some sense into her. It doesn’t. The moment she steps in to audition, she is brushed aside by the indomitable star of the show, Chandon Connors (Crombie again) and her arrogant but airheaded manager, cheekily named Kyle MacLachlan (Guy Simon). This is when the sprightly Molly (Emi Canavan) comes to her aid. She is the Japanese hostess of a club called the Kum Den, and, just like the Blaque Showgirls, she has had to make a living off selling her culture to white people, most of whom assume she’s Chinese and refuse to be corrected on it. She offers to help Ginny if she will later help her. All Ginny needs now are some culturally appropriative dreadlocks and an Aboriginal dance teacher. She finds one named True Love Interest (Simon again!) with crudely painted-on abs. Of course, all of their scenes together are built from the worst “dramatic” dialogue ever written for the screen. This part of the satire is probably the most fun to laugh at, since it makes everyone in the audience feel smart and sophisticated. Ginny is just generally good for a laugh right from the beginning, although, for the white members of the audience, the amusement turns to more of a self-reflective cringe once you realise who she really is. She’s not just clueless, she really is selfish and wilfully ignorant. As much as she might seem like one, she’s hardly an underdog, given that all the real power over the Blaque Showgirls is held by the unseen, ghostly white board of directors. Surprisingly, even True Love Interest has more substance than she does, and unsurprisingly, the formidable Chandon turns out to be much more than just a self-obsessed diva. As the most powerful Aboriginal woman in Brisvegas, poised to rise up through the ranks of the company just before Ginny showed up, she is actually the closest thing we have to a hero here. However, in writing this sly revelation of our racism past and present, there is one trap that Lui very nearly falls into: she does make more than a few jokes at the expense of Ginny’s supposed brain damage and speech difficulties, enough for the audience to start linking it to her social ignorance. Of course, fighting racism with ableism basically defeats the purpose, though fortunately she doesn’t dwell on it too much. Also, towards the end of the play there is a priceless gag attacking wheelchair inaccessibility that is rather redeeming. The lasting feel left by Blaque Showgirls is one of utter frustration with the way things have been, still are and probably will continue to be for a while. It’s a hard-bitten, feel-good and then feel-bad comedy that tricks you into caring. Written by Christian Tsoutsouvas.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Blaque Showgirls is a merciless interrogation of Australian racism in the form of a stage parody of dance movies, including, of course, Showgirls (1995). Written by Nakkiah Lui, the acclaimed Aboriginal activist and playwright who recently worked on the ABC’s Black Comedy, it’s a play that mocks and borrows from film and tv in equal measure. Eugyeene Teh’s set design even resembles a television set as well as a theatre within a theatre, something that director Sarah Giles takes full advantage of. Voiceover abounds instead of theatrical asides. Jed Palmer’s musical score provides the cheese while the cast brings the delicious ham. Humorous captions race above the actors’ heads, and are easy to miss unless you’re paying close attention. Naturally, it ticks of all the obligatory dance movie scenes, albeit with more than a slight twist: a “montage of moderate success”; the arrival-in-the-big-city scene; the audition poster that blows into our protagonist’s face at just the right moment (here the wind is a stagehand carrying a pole); the jealous antagonist dancer throwing a tantrum at her dressing room mirror just before she hatches her third-act scheme. Lui’s story follows the blundering young Ginny Jones (Bessie Holland) an orphan from the town of Chitole (pronounced shi-toll). She dreams of moving to Brisvegas and joining the Blaque Showgirls. She might not be black, but she refuses to let that stop her, no matter how much people mock her for it. Apparently her mother was the best Aboriginal dancer in the country. She is adamant that she can remember looking up at her brown face when she was a baby, just before she was accidentally killed during smoking ceremony that apparently gave Ginny brain damage. In any case, the local Indigenous community are happy to see her go. One elder in particular, her would-be mentor figure (Elaine Crombie) is fed up with her thoughtless lack of cultural sensitivity and is happy to let Brisvegas knock some sense into her. It doesn’t. The moment she steps in to audition, she is brushed aside by the indomitable star of the show, Chandon Connors (Crombie again) and her arrogant but airheaded manager, cheekily named Kyle MacLachlan (Guy Simon). This is when the sprightly Molly (Emi Canavan) comes to her aid. She is the Japanese hostess of a club called the Kum Den, and, just like the Blaque Showgirls, she has had to make a living off selling her culture to white people, most of whom assume she’s Chinese and refuse to be corrected on it. She offers to help Ginny if she will later help her. All Ginny needs now are some culturally appropriative dreadlocks and an Aboriginal dance teacher. She finds one named True Love Interest (Simon again!) with crudely painted-on abs. Of course, all of their scenes together are built from the worst “dramatic” dialogue ever written for the screen. This part of the satire is probably the most fun to laugh at, since it makes everyone in the audience feel smart and sophisticated. Ginny is just generally good for a laugh right from the beginning, although, for the white members of the audience, the amusement turns to more of a self-reflective cringe once you realise who she really is. She’s not just clueless, she really is selfish and wilfully ignorant. As much as she might seem like one, she’s hardly an underdog, given that all the real power over the Blaque Showgirls is held by the unseen, ghostly white board of directors. Surprisingly, even True Love Interest has more substance than she does, and unsurprisingly, the formidable Chandon turns out to be much more than just a self-obsessed diva. As the most powerful Aboriginal woman in Brisvegas, poised to rise up through the ranks of the company just before Ginny showed up, she is actually the closest thing we have to a hero here. However, in writing this sly revelation of our racism past and present, there is one trap that Lui very nearly falls into: she does make more than a few jokes at the expense of Ginny’s supposed brain damage and speech difficulties, enough for the audience to start linking it to her social ignorance. Of course, fighting racism with ableism basically defeats the purpose, though fortunately she doesn’t dwell on it too much. Also, towards the end of the play there is a priceless gag attacking wheelchair inaccessibility that is rather redeeming. The lasting feel left by Blaque Showgirls is one of utter frustration with the way things have been, still are and probably will continue to be for a while. It’s a hard-bitten, feel-good and then feel-bad comedy that tricks you into caring. Written by Christian Tsoutsouvas.