Betty is a Butcher at Sydney Fringe Festival Tickets
About Betty is a Butcher
Five characters, five reasons to live, an odyssey towards death. A collage of memory, these characters jostle for existence in a theatrical phantasmagoria.
BETTY IS A BUTCHER is a black comedy that captures the fragility and savagery of relationships, the need for love and the power of family. In dramatising the act of waiting and capturing the emptiness of communication, BETTY IS A BUTCHER explores what defines us and asks what power we have to shape our destiny.
An unmissable debut play written and performed by Thomas Campbell and directed by Kate Gaul, BETTY IS A BUTCHER is filled with dark humour, pathos and unsettling personal narrative.
"Betty tells me that I’m a dog person, not a cat person and that if I was a cat person she wouldn’t look at me twice. She tells me she loves my stomach and I believe her. That she loves the sound of my snoring and when I toss and turn in bed she pretends she’s a convict on a ship travelling to Australia. Betty cries tears of rainbow water. Betty is a unicorn."
Run time
50mins (no interval)
Categories
Age
SHOW IS RATED: R18+
Start date
5th September, 2023
End date
9th September, 2023
Venue
Made in Sydney at PACT Centre for Emerging Artists
Directions
Getting There
Train
Erskineville Station (250m), Newtown Station (900m) and Macdonaldtown Station (1km)
Bus
355 bus stop (250m), Newtown (900m)
Car
Railway Parade has unlimited free street parking
More information about Betty is a Butcher
"Betty is a Butcher dishes up compelling performances and necessarily theatrical moments that are equal parts sophisticated and silly. It’s a joy. It’s a little disturbing. It’s worth seeing." - Nick Atkins, Director New Work Penrith Performing & Visual Arts
"A sublime, brutal waltz into a complex tapestry of humanity from the deep heart and warped mind of transmutable artiste Thomas Campbell. Firmly guided by the assured and effervescent gaze of director Kate Gaul, Betty is a Butcher is equal part love song and devastating sabre strike, where one emerges grateful for existence and in awe of difference." - Eliza Logan
"It's rare to witness a performer so effortlessly teeter between the tender and the absurd but this is exactly what Thomas Campbell does in Betty is a Butcher - a deeply personal work that is laugh out loud funny, deeply uncomfortable, strangely familiar and often very moving. Thomas' 5 very different characters reflect on themes of family, grief and intergenerational trauma. Oh ... and cupcakes." - Lauren Richardson
Writer/Performer: Thomas Campbell
Producer/Director: Kate Gaul
Associate Producer: Lily Hayman
Stage Manager: Domenic Hort
Lighting Design: Victor Kalka
Original Composition/Sound Design: Nate Edmondson
Dramaturg: Robyn McLevy
Tickets
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