“It’s catastrophe comedy that leaves you breathless, thoughtful, and craving fairy bread.”
★★★★1/2 Mark Wickett, Stage Whispers
A party. A fourth birthday party. A truly wonderful and lovely fourth birthday party. The world isn’t ending. We have honey crackles and fairy bread and the world isn’t ending at all.
In a suburban backyard, in front of an altar of compostable party plates and fun-size sausage rolls, a darling little boy is having an outer-space-themed birthday party.
Somewhere in Texas, a billionaire charts his next phallic-rocket voyage to Mars.
A mother crawls through a Mad Max desert in search of life-sustaining supplies.
A father beats the candy out of a crêpe-paper lolly-horse.
With surreal storytelling and a blistering sonic landscape, SAMUEL is a shimmering, hypercolour attempt at extinguishing the flames of the apocalypse, one birthday candle at a time.
Playwright/Performer- Mary Angley
Performer- Yoz Mensch
Sound Designer/Co-Deviser- Dan Thorpe
Creative Producer- Caitlin Ellen Moore
Supported by The Mill and the Adelaide Fringe through the Centre Stage Residency
Photography: Caitlin Ellen Moore and Dylan Minchenberg
Paper Mouth Theatre 