Dripping in satire, SPOILT, holds a mirror up to contemporary society to display some shattering results. Comic actress, Liz Skitch plays a myriad of everyday Australians who all have one thing in common: they are SPOILT. Parodying everyone from inner city workaholics to suburban dog owners, self-improvement junkies to newly-weds, no one is safe in this comic exploration of humanity’s over-indulgence.The characters in SPOILT are on individual quests to achieve happiness. But they have all been taken in by the rhetoric of the self-help industry; self-improvement, self-love, self-indulgence, selfishness. SPOILT is underpinned by an examination of the negative effects of advertising and commercialism and the overwhelming volumes of adverts that encourage us to ‘to indulge our senses’, ‘treat’ ourselves and to spare no expense for these ‘once in a lifetime’ opportunities.
Venue: La Mama Theatre, 205 Faraday Street, Carlton
Dates: September 19 – 29
Times: 6.30pm (Wednesday and Sunday 8.30pm)
Tickets: $15 – 25 from here.
