Her previous shows WOMANz and Over Promises have won numerous comedy and touring awards. WOMANz – which toured both Australia and the UK – collected a Best Comedy Weekly Award at the 2015 Adelaide Fringe. The show also broke records at Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2014 for being the first show ever to win three awards, including Most Outstanding Comedy.
“Fully Sick comes from this idea of the words that we use to disempower women: being ‘crazy’, ‘she’s so nuts’, ‘she’s so mad’, which is what I often get performing my style of humour,” says Waters. “I love the Australian gem of ‘sick’ or ‘she’s so sick’ and sick being also a term used for crazy. I’m flipping and reclaiming this idea. So if you think I’m sick, let’s go fully sick. Let’s go full throttle.”
The show focuses on her forte, which is physical comedy. “I’m a trained clown and did a lot of physical training so I very much use my body to find the humour,” says Waters, who studied in Paris with master clown Phillipe Gaulier. “This is very much me stepping into these roles, so you’re getting these stories but they’re very much my stories and I’m playing a heightened version of me.”
Waters is having a busy festival. She’s performing during the day at The Famous Spiegeltent at Arts Centre Melbourne as part of the Comedy Club For Kids and is also scheduled for performances as part of the family-friendly event, The (Very) Big Laugh Out at Fed Square. Then there’s her own kids show Rockstar School, an interactive show about body positivity, which is on at the Town Hall. In the evenings, when not doing Fully Sik, she’ll be popping up on the bill for Cath Styles Girls Night, Upfront, and dropping in at the Festival Club, among other gigs.
Then there’s also the second show she’s doing at nights. Waters is also one third of Fringe Wives Club. Together with Rowena Hutson and Victoria Falconer-Pritchard, the trio scored a Moosehead Award to present Glittery Clittery: A ConSENSUAL Comedy Cabaret which is, as Waters puts it, “a big vulva celebration”.
By Joanne Brookfield
Venue: Greek Centre – Aphrodite’s Room
Dates: Thuesday March 30 – Sunday April 23 (bar Mondays)
Duration: 55 minutes
Tickets: $20 – $30
