PERFORMANCE /SHOWS - Anna Thomson Comedy

HAWT COUTURE
FROM NEW YORK CITY TO THE NT

HAWT COUTURE
Anti-Fast Fashion Catwalk Extravanganza!
Workshop Programs, Community particiaption, Interactive Performances. It's Ethical. It's Opshop. It's HAWT Couture.
AWARDS:
* Mothership Residency NYC '23 (RAA Fellowship)
* Best Cabaret - Darwin Fringe Fest 2024
* Finalist 2025 Community Event of the Year - City of Darwin
*APAX Impact Award (as part of Corrugated Iron's 40th birthday celebrations program 2024)
Available for programming in 2026
Image (above): David Bradley for Corrugated Iron
PERFORMANCE EXPERIMENTS

Browns Mart Residency 2023
As part of the Brown's Mart Performance Experiments Residency. Exploration into performance, costume and visual art by Anna Thomson and award-winning weaver Aly De Groot.
Jellyfish take over the world!
Photo (left) by Charlies Bliss c/o Browns Mart
WHAT IN THE WORLD CABARET

Photo: Johanna Hayes (2022)
A workshop series in devised physical comedy and costume ending in an Award-Winning Cabaret that is out of this world!
Created Performed by Anna Thomsons and Ensemble Cast
Directed and Produced by Anna Thomson
(Darwin Fringe Producer Award 2022)
Video: Johanna Hayes
MADAME NIGHTSHADE'S POISON GARDEN
2016-2019

Photo: Ranson Media (2018)
Anne of Green Gables meets Quentin Taratino in this dark, comedic visceral feast.
"...delightful, disgusting,provocative and confronting...a stunning piece of theatrical comedy" ArtsHub 2017
**Risky Award Darwin Fringe Festival 2019**
**Finalist Best Theatre Perth WORLD Fringe 2018**
"This is a smart show; hilarious and thought-provoking. Moments of truly sublime physical theatre...A queer, clowning, feminist triumph." Keith Gow (2019
Video: Dianne Reid (2017)
Madame Nightshade's Poison Garden Trailer
Created and performed by Anna Thomson
Directed by Sarah Ward, with assistance from Maude Davey, Jaye Hayes, Rinske Ginsberg, Jacky T
FIX IT - A CLOWN SHOW ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE

Photo: Martin Stringer (2020)
"...a 30-minute frenzy of mime and physical comedy that verged on Mr Bean-like..." Weekend Notes
A high-energy, escapade exploring environmental solutions to real world problems...through the eyes of a clown!
2020 Sustainable Living Festival Melbourne,
2020 Art Not Apart Festival Canberra
Created and performed by Anna Thomson
Direction assistance: Rinske Ginsberg, Danielle Cresp & Afsaneh Torabi
FIX IT - THE WEB SERIES!

FIX IT Web Series 2020 (Trailer )
A four-part series with FIX IT the clown exploring how to find a lot of fun ways to get creative...in your own backyard!
Episode #1 (6 mins) / Episode #2 (5 mins)
/ Episode #3 (5 mins) / Episode #4 (6 mins)
ARTS CENTRE MELB TOP 5 PICK FOR FAMILIES (2020)
Commissioned by Clocktower Centre Online Roadshow 2022
FIX IT #2 - Play with Your Food 2021 (Trailer)
Join Steve, FIX IT the clown and friends as they look at food, where it comes from, and how to reduce a little bit of food wastage, in the City of Yarra. Ripper!
WATCH IT HERE (10 mins)
Written, performed and produced by Anna Thomson Comedy Music: www.bensound.com & Jacky T
Photos: Shutterstock and Deposit Photos
Supported by a City of Yarra Arts Stimulate Grant
PUPPET JAM

Image: Jarryd Bravo (2019)
Puppet Jam, Melbourne Fringe Festival 2019
Video: Philip Miller
Directed by Phillip Millar
SHORT ACTS

Destroy The Plebiscite (2017)
A Devilish Response to the Marriage Equality Plebiscite
Created by PO PO MO CO
Produced by Ezel Izmet
Filmed & edited by Reabar Othman
What In The World?!
WORLD Class Eco-Burlesque, with a Twist!
The Moulin Beige, 2019
See My Eggs
A Cracking Good Time!
The Village Festival, 2018
FIX IT
Pure Stupidity Meets Unwavering Confidence
A Night of Clowns, Hares and Hyenas 2019
PUPPETRY

HAWT COUTURE

FROM NEW YORK CITY TO THE NT

HAWT COUTURE

PERFORMANCE EXPERIMENTS

Browns Mart Residency 2023

As part of the Brown's Mart Performance Experiments Residency. Exploration into performance, costume and visual art by Anna Thomson and award-winning weaver Aly De Groot. Jellyfish take over the world!

WHAT IN THE WORLD CABARET

Photo: Johanna Hayes (2022)

A workshop series in devised physical comedy and costume ending in an Award-Winning Cabaret that is out of this world! Created Performed by Anna Thomsons and Ensemble CastDirected and Produced by Anna Thomson(Darwin Fringe Producer Award 2022)

Video: Johanna Hayes

MADAME NIGHTSHADE'S POISON GARDEN2016-2019

Photo: Ranson Media (2018)

Video: Dianne Reid (2017)

Madame Nightshade's Poison Garden Trailer

FIX IT - A CLOWN SHOW ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE

Photo: Martin Stringer (2020)

"...a 30-minute frenzy of mime and physical comedy that verged on Mr Bean-like..." Weekend Notes

FIX IT - THE WEB SERIES!

FIX IT Web Series 2020 (Trailer )

A four-part series with FIX IT the clown exploring how to find a lot of fun ways to get creative...in your own backyard!

FIX IT #2 - Play with Your Food 2021 (Trailer)

PUPPET JAM

Image: Jarryd Bravo (2019)

Puppet Jam, Melbourne Fringe Festival 2019

Video: Philip Miller

Directed by Phillip Millar

SHORT ACTS

Destroy The Plebiscite (2017)

A Devilish Response to the Marriage Equality Plebiscite

What In The World?!

WORLD Class Eco-Burlesque, with a Twist!

See My Eggs

A Cracking Good Time!

FIX IT

Pure Stupidity Meets Unwavering Confidence

PUPPETRY

As part of the Brown's Mart Performance Experiments Residency. Exploration into performance, costume and visual art by Anna Thomson and award-winning weaver Aly De Groot.
Jellyfish take over the world!

A workshop series in devised physical comedy and costume ending in an Award-Winning Cabaret that is out of this world!
Created Performed by Anna Thomsons and Ensemble Cast
Directed and Produced by Anna Thomson
(Darwin Fringe Producer Award 2022)

MADAME NIGHTSHADE'S POISON GARDEN
2016-2019