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Three for Free - Lunchtime Performances

Monash University Academy of Performing Arts will present free lunchtime theatre performances throughout April at Clayton and Peninsula campuses.

Now in its fourth year, Three for Free returns in 2013 with a season of work created, performed, written and directed by graduates of the Monash University Bachelor of Performing Arts program. This season makes a popular contribution to the fabric of the University’s campus community and provides graduates and staff with an opportunity to develop and share their professional work while providing the broader community with top class free lunchtime entertainment.

Three for Free truly offers something for everyone! So grab your lunch and make it along to the Alexander Theatre in Clayton or the George Jenkins Theatre on the Peninsula campus for lunchtime theatre at its best!

The Shrink and Swell of Knots | Created and Performed by Ben Grant
Wednesday 10 April at 1.00pm, Alexander Theatre
The lighter the twist, the greater the strength. How many loops in a love note to life? A man starts building his own coffin but decides to turn it into a raft. He struggles to untie his emotional and mental knots so he can leave the kid with some simple important advice, before the tide turns and it’s time to go.
The Shrink and Swell of Knots is an energetic, challenging and optimistic show about struggle, filled with music and ideas, practical information and poetry, transformation and grunt.

Choir Girl | Created by Sarah Collins
Wednesday 17 April at 1.00pm, Alexander Theatre
Thursday 18 April at 1.00pm, George Jenkins Theatre
A girl joins a choir after being dropped from her last one. And the one before that. And the one before that.
Choir Girl is the dark comedic tale of a dedicated choir girl whose single-minded passion leads her to extraordinary actions. Life just never turns out the way it should for Susan as she treads the fine line between choral dedication and obsessive mania. The darkly comic story is exquisitely performed with warmth and humour by ex-Monashian Sarah Collins, who’s most recent Comedy Festival show had her pegged by the Sydney Morning Herald as one of the “top 10 next big things in comedy”.

UnSex me Now | Created and Performed by Mark Wilson
Wednesday 24 April at 1.00pm, Alexander Theatre
Daughter of a theatre legend and a prima ballerina, award-winning actress Mark Wilson dissects her own story and her next job: being directed by her father as Lady Macbeth. Grand performances, whispered confessions, and booming self-mockery combine as she prepares, promotes and performs the role of her life.
Mark Wilson is an International Fellow of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London. Unsex me Now is somewhere between stand up comedian Bill Hicks, the In-Yer-Face British playwrights of the 1990s and the Royal Shakespeare Company. It’s post-dramatic theatre steeped in controversial, dark comedy.
Warning: Unsex me Now contains explicit sexual references and imagery, frequent coarse language and nudity.

Tickets: FREE
No bookings required. These plays are suitable for mature audiences.