Get Your Laughing Gear Along to the 2007 HotHouse Theatre Comedy Festival!


Bigger, better and funnier – the 2007 HotHouse Theatre Comedy Festival is coming ready-or-not with all the hilarity and silliness that two weeks of solid comedy can bring. 35 performances of six shows over two weeks, the Festival will launch your Christmas season in style!

A TRIBUTE TO DANNY KAYE     Written by and featuring Russell Fletcher.
Experience the hilarious magic of one of the most loved entertainers of all time in this rollicking, sing along, laugh-a-minute riot for the whole family.
“This ardently fascinated performer doesn’t fail to be fascinating for a millisecond!  Fletcher wins his audience from the get-go!  Fletcher is powerful!” Helen Razer, The Age  

HAPPY AND CLEAN    Written by and featuring Marty Murphy.
Marty Murphy takes us on a surreal journey as he tells the story of how he lost his job as a mime artist, became a B-grade movie director and wrote an action thriller set on a turkey farm.
"Structured, intelligent and imaginative comedy..." Sun Herald
"Oh how I loved to watch the comic genius of Marty Murphy in Happy and Clean... meaning, substance and humanity were found and displayed prophetically and poetically in his hilarious personal story". The Program

BANGERS AND MASH    Written by and featuring Drew Fairley and Kate Smith.
Thigh-slapping comedic genius as this very funny, very human play, explores the thirty something dilemma of single life, share housing, and avoiding all those life-changing choices.
“….performers Fairley and Smith – think of them as funnier versions of Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan…” Sun Herald.

IMPRACTICAL JOKES  Written by and featuring Charlie Pickering.
Following his Edinburgh success, Charlie was booked to play legendary London Comedy Store, and performed a sold out solo run at the Soho Theatre on London’s West End.
“Charming company and a natural raconteur” ««««The Scotsman
“You won’t be disappointed” «««««The Independent (UK)
“Pickering’s analysis is more than witty, it’s side-shakingly funny” The Age

DEBUTANTE DIARIES    Written by and featuring Kate McLennan.
Barry Award nominee 2007 Melbourne Comedy Festival & Winner Best Comedy and Best Newcomer 2006 Melbourne Fringe.
Join Kate McLennan for her one-woman character comedy about THE event on any High School calendar – The Deb Ball.  A ‘Mean Girls’ meets ‘Carrie’ comedy from one of Melbourne’s finest comediennes.
“A winner…A very big talent” The Age
“really hysterical…I’m still laughing... McLennan has it totally under control” BEAT Magazine

THE CARPENTERS FROM KEMPSEY    Written by Darren Mapes and Linda Nagle. Featuring Lisa Adam and Darren Mapes.
Darren and Sharon Carpenter are twins... Born six months apart... from Kempsey. Then came that magical day when they discovered one of dad’s old vinyl records – those other Carpenters. Not only did they look similar,
but also they shared a family name. Darren and Sharon have hit the road singing all the songs those other Carpenters made famous. Close to You, Rainy Days and Monday, Top of the World, There’s a Kind of Hush,
We’ve Only Just Begun and more.
“Great fun! Great music! An entertaining reminder of a time when The Carpenters were more than just tradesmen who turned up late.”
L e x M a r in o s


The fun takes place at HotHouse Theatre’s venue on the banks of the Murray, the Hume Building Society Butter Factory Theatre, Gateway Island, Wodonga from November
15th - 25th.

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