"Transformative and WILD. See Grumble" – Peaches

Hello Bodies… After a decade of playing within her spiritual access point and avatar, Betty Grumble – performance artist Emma Maye Gibson re-emerges, bringing her latest offering Enemies Of Grooviness Eat Shit back to the stage as a mantric wish.

This show is a self-reflective, regenerative dive into the compost bin of making and moving through the trouble; of defying the ever-present cultures of violence and ecocide.

Bowing to the powers of Grief and Love Energy, Rage Energy, Hope Energy & Fuck Energy, Gibson invites you to sit with and honour the legacy of makers, mentors, friends, lovers and ‘enemies’ that have formed an ecosystem of aliveness within the perils of eco-grief and structures that certainly no longer serve us.

Across the season Gibson returns Grumble from whence she came, performing an unfurling of the eco-feminist seeping carapace that gave her a way to heal, feel and defy the damn enemies of grooviness that keep her, them, you, all of us down.

Enemies of Grooviness Eat Shit is poetry, tribute, a rock-n-roll performance art collision, love scene and revenge fantasy; an unshaming dance and a chance to allow ourselves to be seen.

You are invited into a sensual, surreal and sublime experience of an all-singing, dancing, howling and loving Cabaret du Sex Clown. Let’s have fun.

Thank you, body!

“…if everyone can get in touch with the Betty Grumble within, things will be all right.” – Suzy Goes See

WARNING Strictly 18+

Energetic Considerations: Strobe, Incense burning, Loud music, Full Frontal Nudity, Death, Grief, Sex Scenes, Love energy, Rage energy, Discussion of Violence and sexual violence, Hope energy and more full frontal de-clothed body!

We acknowledge the power to be able to speak truth to power and invite you to take care of yourself and your stories within this work.

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VENUE

We cannot wait to welcome you to Eveleigh Works, a blacksmiths’ studio at Bay 1/2 Locomotive Street, South Eveleigh.

From 7pm each night, our friends 107 Projects will be behind the bar, and food is available from South Eveleigh’s amazing local vendors, including Eat Fuh, RaRa, Fishbowl & more.

We’ll have a new dj playing before and after the show each night. Come and get some Grumble.

DATES & TIMES

Tuesday 14 June - Saturday 18 June

Doors open 7pm for an 8pm sharp show start. Tunes and bar flowing til 11pm nightly.

AUSLAN Interpreted session Thursday 16 June, interpreted by Leah Brown.

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TICKETING

Tickets are General Admission, or become a Supporter of Grooviness and pay what you can to contribute more towards the production. ZipMoney is available to pay in instalments.

General Admission tickets are $46 + booking fee
Supporters of Grooviness are $50 and over (just type in what you'd like to pay) + booking fee
Unwaged & Concession tickets are available for those who need (+ booking fee)

COVID SAFETY

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ACCESS

All sessions are wheelchair accessible
Auslan Interpreted Show : Thursday 16 June

CREDITS

Creator Emma Maye Gibson
Performers Betty Grumble & Megana Holliday
Lighting Design & Operator Alex Torney

Dramaturg/Art Doula Victoria Spence
Original Dramaturgical Team Dr Vivienne Linsley, Dr Annie Sprinkle, Charlotte Farrell
Costume Design Matthew Stegh & Haus of Helmutti

Sound Design Betty Grumble & stereogamous
Pussy Flag Design Ms Saffaa

Producer Thom Smyth // Performing Lines

Produced by Performing Lines, presented in association with Eveleigh Works and 107 Projects for Vivid Sydney 2022.

Enemies of Grooviness Eat Shit is produced & presented by Performing Lines in association with 107 Projects and Eveleigh Works as part of Vivid Sydney 2021. This project is supported by the NSW Government through Destination NSW and Create NSW; the City of Sydney; and was originally supported by The Red Rattler Theatre.