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A Porthole into the Minds of the Vanquished

General Info

  • Genre:

    Black / Parody / Musical

  • TV Shows

  • Albums

    Do you have urinal mints growing out of your back? Do keep scratching them and getting soap and blood under your nails.

  • Website

    aporthole.com not alot there at the minute.

  • Bio

    A Porthole into the Minds of the Vanquished is the co-conception of its two writer/performers, Tamlyn Henderson and Warwick Allsopp. After graduating from WAAPA(one of Australia's leading theatrical Institutes) in 2001, the pair were often touring or working on opposite sides of the country, but they would correspond via means of the text message. Rather than just the "Hey mate, how r u going?" variety of txt, they began using the phone more like a modern moleskin, and sent through literally anything that might be amusing to one another- poems, observational humour, lyrics, expressions of boredom etc... Warwick began logging these adsurd little scribblings in a book- and today there are 5 books with thousands of entries. Originally the show was just reading directly from the books with a jazz pianist noodling in the background, but it has evolved into a STILL VERY STRANGE but more character driven comedic experience. The show really is a 50ft belly-flop into the absurd- darkly poetic, Daliesque and sometimes just plain daft. Picture Lewis Carroll, The Goons, and William.S.Burroughs eating fairy-bread at 3am, and you're in the neighbourhood. The show has played at the Old Fitz, Bar Me, 34b in Sydney, The Adelaide Fringe Festival and The Melbourne International Comedy Festival, where it received a Best Newcomer Nomination in 2006. Here's what some others had to say: " An entirely anarchic, bewilderingly engaging piece of comedic theatre....a hilarious show built of intricate and mindbogglingly clever tiny sketches and fabulously nonsensical musical numbers.... just go see the damn thing!!" INPRESS "It's twisted, unspeakably bizarre: Both(Henderson and Allsopp) are wonderfully talented- as left-field comedians and as singers. Those jaded by mainstream humour will find (it) freakishly funny" THE AGE "I hadn't laughed that hard at Australian writing for years... Part radio-play, part monologue, part musical, and part advertisement for the pitfalls of modern life... in a word, brilliant." FBI RADIO Brett Maverix " A must see festival act." SUNDAY MAIL "You may find yourself hankering for a transcript after the curtains have closed... the jokes that do linger will inspire sleepless nights.." THE PUN "Porthole will have you in fits of laughter while the rest of the audience remains silent. You will shift in your seat and gouge your cheek between your molars...but the youths have lovely voices!" TROILUS

  • Members

    Warwick Allsopp, Tamlyn Henderson, Jeremy Brennan(on da keys) or could also be John Rutledge (twinkling dem ivories), Ansuya Nathan(director/producer), James Collins (Sound Designer)

  • Influences

    Do you have urinal mints growing out of your back? Do keep scratching them and getting soap and blood under your nails.

Blurbs

About me:

I was born in Adelaide in 1962 to a middle-class purveyor of meats. At the age of 6, my parents divorce and move in with my paternal grandparents. At 14 I fall heavily in love with my 17 year old first cousin. At 18 I embark upon a series of damaging short term relationships. At 22, I graduate with a degree in philosophy and divinity. At 24, I marry a counter-assistant, and at 27 i am dragged by my pubic hair through the divorce courts. After another string of toxic relationships and career indecision, I am ship-wrecked on the rocks in a sea of disillusionment. At 32 I develop a sex addiction, and at age 41 I become a game-show host. Who am I? .. MySpace Layouts

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Who I'd like to meet:

The Dulux dog.

Details

  • Status: Single
  • Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Interests

  • General

    Our new show!!!! THE JINGLISTS playing at the Bosco tent at the 2008 MICF

  • Music

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