Linda Catalano is... Shopper
$20/ $16 Concession, Groups 4+ / $17 Preview, Laugh Pack / $16 Tightarse Tuesday
Bargain hunters, shop-a-holics and retail thrillseekers beware. Shopper lifts the lid on the seedy underbelly of the retail world.
A true bargain hunter likes nothing better than a dead business. They can smell the collapse. They dream about liquidation sales and get their best buys from other people’s misfortune. They sleep out the night before a closing down sale, just to pick at a dead business’s remains. Brutal isn’t it?
Pushy sales girl, repentant copywriter, bitter retailer and acclaimed comic, Linda Catalano investigates Australia’s most infamous bargain hunters in Shopper.
Inspired by the stories of real shoppers and informed by Catalano’s own history working in retail and being subjected to advertising and news coverage, Shopper takes a look at our consumer culture and asks: Is shop culture the new pop culture?
Linda Catalano first performed her original one-woman show at the 2002 Melbourne International Comedy Festival where it was a hit, leading to four return, sold-out seasons at the Store Room and Tony Starr’s Kitten Club. Eight years later, our society’s obsession with retail has intensified and Linda has collected a trolley full of fresh material for a new, improved 2010 model of Shopper, now with even more laughs!
'Finely drawn and very funny.’– The Age
Daring, hilarious, intelligent and sexy’ – Inpress Magazine
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