REPUBLIKA UBU is devised collaboratively and is a performance that incorporates new and old media and technologies, devices to engage the senses and audience interaction. This project is a saga revolving around the character of Ubu set in a contemporary world. It explores through the use multi-disciplinary live outdoor performance notions of democracy, the transmission of information and the perception and mediation of reality.

The play Ubu Roi, from the trilogy written by Alfred Jarry in the late eighteen hundreds, draws its inspiration from Shakespeare's Macbeth and tells the tale of a heinous man called Ubu who wants to claim the crown of Poland for his own. Full of ridiculous and illogical incident, vulgarity and violence and, of course rooted firmly in 'pataphysics', playwright Alfred Jarry's very own fabricated science of imaginary solutions.

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Pata Corroboree
Screenings: "School of Fish", documentary on the Melbourne 2003 Fringe Festival guerrilla performances of this piece.
Workshops: Fish puppeteering, symbols and expression.
Open Forums: Pataphysics? Guest speakers.
Live Performances: Expect the usual avalanche of absurdity, anarchism and througth provoquing entertaiment.
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118 Orrong Rd, Elsternwick VIC, Australia
Tix $10 includes catering provided by "Lentil as Anything"
rspv & bookings patanet@alphalink.com.au

After the success of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival season we are overstaying our visa's for 6 more shows during the Melbourne Fringe Festival.

Asylum seekers Jesus, Buddha and Mouhammed flee religious persecution upon their mythical winged bike. In the pursuit of freedom they ride across the oceans only to land in Australia and discover that Freedom is a furniture shop in Moorabbin. What's the price of freedom? Will Chris, Bud and Moh get a bulk discount? And where do they get

Dates:
Sep. Fri 26,Sat 27,
Oct. Fri 3,Sat 4,Thu 9,Fri 10,Sat 11,
Tickets: A: $15 C: $13

Venue:
The Space
318 Chapel St (Upstairs), Enter via Carlton St
Prahran 3181
Melways: 2L J10

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Presented by the Insitute of Pataphysical Studies

Due to public demand Coco the chicken is back with new dreams. Swimming in magic and ritual, Hernan Palacio will hypnotise Coco with the help of a pataphysical contraption and a bottle of Mezcal. The audience will see and feel the dreamy world of the chicken. Absurdism, Dadaism, Surrealism and Symbolism with a Latin American spin.

Dates:
Oct. Thu 9,Fri 10,Sat 11,
Tickets: A: $15 C: $13

Time: 10:45 pm till 11:45 pm

Venue:
The Space
318 Chapel St (Upstairs), Enter via Carlton St
Prahran 3181
Melways: 2L J10

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Vision

To submerge the City and create an underwater world were the public/passer by/would be participant is presented with bubble bottles and a school of fresh fish swimming up street/stream .

Divers in wetsuits, goggles and shower caps give life to this dead puppet/fish in an absurd choreography. Something smells. Look around, something is not quit right.

There is a harp and drum beat providing the sound scape. Big colourful fish lanterns are part of it.

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