There’s a happy couple. They’ve been together a few years. They do things couples do: walk together, talk together, meander through IKEA, anal, crosswords on Sunday mornings.
One day he realises she’s The One, so he gets down on one knee (as is tradition) and proposes. And she explodes: “Do you actually know what marriage is? It’s a way of turning women into property.” And he gets her point… kind of… but he loves her, and surely she’ll come around. I mean, he’s seen The Taming of the Shrew. Some women just need more convincing than others.
THE ONE is a theatrical fever dream that takes the boy gets girl cliché and impales it with marriage’s grim history. An angry guitar sits under hissed words as the story of Him and Her breaks apart in this new piece written by Jeffrey Jay Fowler (FAG/STAG) and performed by Georgia King and Mark Storen.
- Venue Format
- Theatre, Hall, Black Box Venue
- Technical Rating
- Touring Party
- 2
- Considerations
Contains adult content.
Needs a PA or FOH sound system for performers to plug into and a lighting rig.
Whiskey & Boots is the new performance company created to house the work of performer, director, writer, musician Mark Storen and performer/producer Georgia King. Whiskey & Boots work is best described as Storytelling with Music.
- Company Website
- whiskeyboots.com.au
Unique Selling Point
As Described by Melbourne Arts Review "The play is delivered with plenty of energy and finesse in an absorbing production that reverberates with poetry and humour and utter realness. While sometimes funny this 60-minute rarest of gems is ultimately a portrait of the way we instinctively try to protect ourselves from getting hurt, by avoiding or pursuing matrimony, whatever the gender."
Marketing Materials
We will provide marketing packs inclusive of images, copy, digital show promo, Artwork for posters flyers, interviews and reviews. We have had three successful seasons 2 in Perth and one in Melbourne and have gathered excellent marketing collateral that can be used to help sell the show by providing a clear and detail idea of what the show is about and how it has been received.
Community Engagement
The creative team have many years of experience delivering workshops to communities of different ages and experiences.
‘The One’ blends many styles of performance while questioning our values around marriage. Accompanying this show we could offer two workshop types that will deepen audiences understanding of the show, the process of making this kind of theatre which offers skills to community members in making a show based on storytelling and music processes.
Workshops.
*Storytelling with music This workshop or facilitated discussion demonstrates how our own personal stories can be weaved into an engaging presentable story, either written or spoken. Recorded or Displayed.
*Creating Workshop This workshop examines and demonstrates the different processes employed by the creative team in making the work. Through this facilitated process we will take community members through a devising process to help identify, explore and question issues of importance in the community. It enables participants to find a voice to present this to workshop participants using storytelling.
Comments/Reviews
David Zampatti
Media Review
It’s a sad story told with absolute clarity, but Fowler doesn’t merely tell it. He makes it a song, a blues. And it is often sung, by Storen, an accomplished musician, and King, an actor’s singer, and the result is fluid, emotive and frequently very powerful. “Brilliant. Go to the top of the class.” WEST AUSTRALIAN (Read More)
Nerida Dickinson
Media Review
With beautiful wordplay, startling lurches sideways into base bodily functions, humour, intense honesty into the interplay of roles in a relationship, soothing strings accompanying dreamy monologues and sweet singing voices, The One entertains as it holds a mirror to undiscussed parts of our lives. A strong start to the Subiaco Theatre Festival. AUSTRALIAN STAGE (Read More)
Vera Poh
Media Review
King gives a wonderfully intense performance: assertive, vulnerable, panic-struck by turns. Deeply we feel for Storen’s romantic, idealistic man, his consummate skills as a musician — liquid, melodious voice riding on waves of strings Faultlessly, this is the kind of theatre that will send lovers and un-lovers into complex and confronting journeys as they study their own bedroom affairs. ARTS REVIEW (Read More)