Shaun Micallef: De'Ath Takes a Holiday
Description
Join comedy legend Shaun Micallef for an evening of literary laughs as he discusses his latest novel, De'Ath Takes a Holiday, with Marieke Hardy. A wildly inventive gothic satire for the modern age, De'Ath Takes a Holiday follows its vampiric protagonist as he hopscotches through history and questions whether immortality is all it’s cracked up to be.
Doors open 6.30pm for a 7pm start.
Drinks can be purchased at the festival bar.
Lineup
Shaun Micallef
MICALLEF, Shaun Patrick, LL.B.; Australian comedian; born 18 July 1962; married, three sons; ‘educated’ Sacred Heart College and University of Adelaide; admitted to bar 1984-93; threw it all away to join the circus. Television: The Micallef P(r)ogram(me), SeaChange, Micallef Tonight, Newstopia, Talkin’ ’Bout Your Generation, Mad as Hell, Eve of Destruction. Books: Smithereens (2005), Preincarnate (2010), The President’s Desk (2014), Tales from a Tall Forest(2017), The Uncollected Plays of Shaun Micallef (2018), Happily Ever Afterwards (2021), Tripping Over Myself (2022), Slivers, Shards and Skerricks (2024), Too Scared to Sleep (2024), The Impatient Glacier (2024). Leisure interests: wind farming.
Marieke Hardy
Marieke Hardy is a screenwriter, playwright, radio broadcaster, producer and author. She has penned regular columns for The Age, The Monthly, and Frankie magazine, and written for many television shows, including The Family Law, Seven Types of Ambiguity, Heartbreak High, and Sunny Nights. Her six-part award-winning black comedy series, Laid, premiered on the ABC and was adapted for the US in 2025. She was co-curator of international literary phenomenon Women of Letters, a regular panelist on The First Tuesday Book Club, and a recipient of the 2015 Sidney Myer Fellowship. Her adaptation of Dario Fo’s No Pay? No Way! premiered at the Sydney Opera House in 2020 and has since toured to Manchester, UK. She currently curates spoken word salon Better Off Said and her new original play, Losing Face, debuts at Melbourne Theatre Company in June.
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