Mackenzie by Bell Shakespeare
Performance Dates:
Thursday 3 June, 7.30pm
Duration: 90 minutes, no interval
This performance will be Auslan interpreted
About the Show:
Mackenzie is 13 and she’s booked her first-ever TV gig: a tiny part on a huge kids show. It’s a small start, but Mackenzie’s mum has always felt sure that her baby was destined for superstardom. One day, Mackenzie and her best on-set friend Beau encounter a geriatric make-up artist who is struck with a vision: that Mackenzie will be NUMBER ONE POP GIRL OF THE WORLD.
Directed by the electric Virginia Gay, this hilariously macabre play (with songs) charts Mackenzie’s rise to fame fuelled by a cut-throat stage mum who will stop at absolutely nothing. Set in the heights of early 2000s TV stardom, prepare for a wild ride that will leave you in stitches… and deeply disturbed.
Suitable for: Students in Years 8 - 12
Warnings: Contains coarse language, references to mental illness, drug references, sexual references, strobe lighting and haze.
Student Tickets: $22 each (one teacher free per 10 students)
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Reviews
“Comedic and dramatic genius...a pop girl transformation of the Scottish play that does for Shakespeare what Six did for the wives of Henry VIII” – The Age
“Impeccable...not only raised the bar but crushed it into rhinestones and scattered it across the stage” – Time Out
Contact Cath.Hedge@frankston.vic.gov.au or complete this online form to express interest in booking.
Bell Shakespeare is assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, and by the NSW Government through Create NSW.