Here at Perth Arts Live, we know festival season in Perth/Boorloo (and beyond!) is hectic. There’s a lot to do, see, and plan when arts festivals overlap in such spectacular ways. To help readers make informed decisions about where to spend every moment of their free time during this culture-crammed season just like us, we’re asking The Blue Room Theatre Summer Nights artists to ‘take five’ from their busy schedules to answer five questions about their shows. No rest for the weary, eh?
Writer/performer Lucy Wong takes five with PAL to tell us more about her homage to D-grade shark flicks: SHARK. Presented by Lazy Yarns for The Blue Room Theatre’s Summer Nights, this campy genre twist runs from 11 – 15 Feb. About SHARK:
“Good vs Evil. Man vs Shark. It’s the only real cinema we have left! You are invited for a wild ride and a peak behind the scenes of a sharkageddon flick like any other. Low-budget, high-stakes, low-cut bikini. ‘GIRL’ and ‘SHARK’ – the dream of stardom and this being their big break but are trapped in sexualised and bestial stereotypes! Meanwhile, ‘DIRECTOR’ is willing to throw anyone overboard for the sake of a box-office hit. “
Q1 What inspired the show, and what was the motivation for bringing it to The Blue Room Theatre for Summer Nights?
It started off as a powerpoint night with friends idea: ‘Ranking the hottest chicks in shark movies’ which then made me think about why the females character in shark-disaster movies are so conventionally hot. As an actor myself, a gig is a gig and if a paid opportunity came along to play a shallow, two-dimensional female lifeguard in a shark movie…I’d do it. Or would I? No, I would. That’s what the show is about to me.
Q2 What’s the most unexpected, funny, or interesting thing that has happened during the show’s development?
Drawing the parallel that women and sharks in shark movies are stuck in their typecasts: hot chick and man-eating shark.
Q3 What does the audience absolutely need to know before they come to see the show? (without spoilers, of course!)
Hope you don’t mind pubic hair!
Q4 If you could invite any famous person (living or dead) to the show, who would it be and why?
Saffron Burrows, star of Deep Blue Sea. Huge inspiration in my life personally and for the show.
Q5 What other show(s) would pair well with yours for a delicious summer festival feast?
I Watched Someone Die on TikTok [Lazy Yarns/State of Play/FRINGE WORLD], The Wetness [Mummy’s Plastic/The Blue Room Theatre], Turder, She Wrote [Reese Horne/The Blue Room Theatre]
BONUS ROUND: In 10 words or less, give us your last-ditch pitch to get folks in to see the show!
blood is fake, boobs are real
