Get Wet With With Fringe! It’s A Pool Party!!!
c1983. Colour screenprint, 91.1 x 65cm. Repaired minor tears to upper edges. Linen-backed. Text includes “Presented by Fringe Network. Water follies film! Synchronized swimming display! Games, races + prizes!!! Coolside swing music, live!! Aquarobics!! Collingwood Pool, Hoddle St, Clifton Hill [Vic]. Nov. 19, 7pm – midnight.” “The Melbourne Fringe Network was established in 1982 after the demise of the legendary Pram Factory in Carlton. The Pram Factory was the home of the Australian Performing Group which was a democratically run theatrical collective. The group was at its pinnacle during the sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll era of Carlton and revived a dreary Australian theatre scene. The collective created a theatre in opposition to the script-based, director-dominated conservative norm. It was up-close, non-naturalistic and centred on the presence and skill of the performer. The shows were raw, rough, vernacular, iconoclastic, experimental, tendentious, comical, musical, and from time to time, magical.” Ref: Craig Bellamy, A Brief History of the Melbourne Fringe Festival 1982-2003, 11.22.2003.
Item #CL190-61
Price (AUD): $990.00 other currencies