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ANTICS
Written by Ian Wallace
With sell-out performances during the 2005 and 2006 Melbourne International Comedy Festival with shows Great Procrastinations and Who Wears The Pants?, and the critically acclaimed independent season Table For Two in 2007, Ezy-Peezy Productions return in the 2008 MICF with ANTICS. Ezy-Peezy founders, Patrick Harvey and Ian Wallace have for the past three years attempted to comically capture the complex nature of what they call their culture, within a medium to which their contemporaries tend not to explore – live theatre. At the age of 23, Patrick and Ian have built a young fan-base of blossoming future theatre goers over the three year period.
This season, Patrick and Ian (Ezy-Peezy), delve into the lifestyles of several young television stars dealing with the fleeting nature of their recent high calibre over-night success. When a young writer is hired to breathe new life into the breakthrough Australian drama, “Antics of the Heart”, he naively takes it upon himself to invade the actors’ greenroom in an attempt to write their characters better through knowing their real life personalities. The result is comically blunt.
Like previous Ezy-Peezy shows, ANTICS focus’ heavily on telling a human story through the use of razor-sharp conversational and irreverent humour. Past Ezy-Peezy shows have seen involvement from Adam Hunter (Red Stitch), Kate Keltie (Neighbours), Drew Tingwell (The Secret Life Of Us), Don Bridges (Charlotte’s Web) and the crowd favourite James Beattie (MICF regular).
Patrick Harvey and Ian Wallace work locally and independently. They formed Ezy-Peezy Productions in order to explore an honest representation of young Australians that seems to be lacking in the mainstream public arena.
“These plays show a keen wit and excellent pitch to the audience. There’s also a depth of emotion and reflection that comedy shows don’t usually have…” – THE AGE, 2007.
Patrick Harvey – LOGIE WINNER 2003