What is your show about?
Cosmonaut is my journey to try to find the worst sex tip ever written by Cosmopolitan magazine. Additionally I used the material in that magazine to mine my own perceptions of feminism, gender, and sex to make this show.
What was the process of putting your show together?
At the beginning I wanted to write a heart-breaking song so epic it would get back a lost love. But I’m rubbish at guitar and keep crying. So instead, I read (most of) every issue of Cosmopolitan. All of them. I started cataloguing the sex tips and looking at them over generations. I discovered an interesting evolution and devolution within the decades of material.
What sets your show apart from others at Fringe?
Besides my gaudy American accent? I think this show is different from some of the other comedy shows because it’s a story and a journey that we are going on together. I’m not the guy who’s going to tell you joke after joke after joke. But I am the one who’s going to try to make you laugh with a combination of heightened language, prop dildos, and spaceman outfits.
How will your show involve audiences?
At the end of every show, I provide a list of the 30 worst sex tips I discovered in my research. I then ask them to go home and try one out with a partner, friend, or enthusiastically willing stranger and then record their thoughts on it afterwards. Any recording I get will be put into an audio cue in the show. So, dear reader, your pervy experience can be a part of our cacophony of naked emotions from all over the world.
How does your show challenge audience members?
I hope this show pushes some boundaries for people they might not have thought about before. I’m a fairly ordinary looking white male in his thirties. But I’m also bisexual, polyamorous, and the parent of an infant. So hopefully my deceptively unique psuedo-weirdo world view leaves people looking at the their own world and relationships a little differently.
Venue: Fringe Hub: Arts House – Meeting Room
Dates: September 16 – October 1 (except Mondays)
Time: 8pm (Sundays 7pm)
Tickets: $20 – $25
