Pulpshow [Adelaide Festival Fringe: The Garden of Unearthly Delights]

Leah Shelton; Daniel Evans; Kenneth Lyons; Craig Wilkinson; Jason Glenwright; Justin Marshman; Margi Brown Ash; Leon Cain; Scott Wright; Pete Foley

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Pulpshow [Adelaide Festival Fringe: The Garden of Unearthly Delights]

Leah Shelton, Daniel Evans, Kenneth Lyons, Craig Wilkinson, Jason Glenwright, Justin Marshman, Margi Brown Ash, Leon Cain, Scott Wright and Pete Foley

Adelaide Festival Fringe: The Garden of Unearthly Delights (Adelaide, Australia, 12-Feb-2016–25-Feb-2016)

2016

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Abstract

Performing Arts and Creative Writing

speculative fiction

schizophonia

hauntology

popular culture

theatre

live art

national identity

collaboration

sound design

Australiana

Pulpshow is a live art performance devised and performed by Leah Shelton that critiques Australian popular culture, histories and national identity. Straddling cabaret, burlesque and performance art, the work is at times ridiculous, dark and absurd. Pulpshow was developed as a response to the growing support for a nationalistic, mono-cultural world-view, both within Australia and globally. It contains stories that are at once foreign and familiar and that speak to cultural difference and shared understandings. A performative, sonic and visual mashup of Australiana, the production team explored the use of speculative fiction and bricolage in their approach to collaborative practice and conceptual development which significantly influenced its final presentation. Pulpshow was first staged as part of the Wonderland Festival 2015 at Brisbane Powerhouse. Supported by an Adelaide Fringe Cultural Fund Artist Development Grant, it was selected for the 2016 Adelaide Fringe Festival and awarded the 2016 John Chataway Innovation Award (Adelaide Fringe), The Adelaide Advertisers Hitlist Best Cabaret Award and received favourable print and radio press reviews. Pulpshow underwent significant conceptual, performative and research re-development in early 2016 to be later staged as Terror Australis.

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Title: Pulpshow [Adelaide Festival Fringe: The Garden of Unearthly Delights]
Authors: Leah Shelton (Author)
Daniel Evans (Author)
Kenneth Lyons (Sound designer)
Craig Wilkinson (Videographer)
Jason Glenwright (Lighting designer)
Justin Marshman (Project Manager)
Margi Brown Ash (Voiceover)
Leon Cain (Voiceover)
Scott Wright (Voiceover)
Pete Foley (Illustrator)
Additional notes: Winner: John Chataway Innovation Award, Adelaide Fringe 2016
Event details: Adelaide Festival Fringe: The Garden of Unearthly Delights (Adelaide, Australia, 12-Feb-2016–25-Feb-2016)
Format: 50 minutes
Date published: 2016
Organisation Unit: School of Creative Industries - Legacy
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99451605202621
Output Type: Theater

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