FRIDAY, 12TH APRIL , 2024
Tickets: $40 Door: $45
General Admission: Doors: 6.30pm.
Dinner & Show: Limited Tickets available, Guaranteed front seating.
3 Courses +Ticket: $132
Double Pass: 2 x Tickets + Charcuterie & Cheese sharing board $126
Dinner times (Pre show): 6pm, 6:15pm, 6:30pm
Show: 7.30pm
Genre: Comedian
About:
PAUL MCDERMOTT + 1 : BLOOD ORANGE
Blood Orange is the third collaboration between writer/performer Paul McDermott and guitar/rock/god Glenn Moorhouse.
It’s the culmination of three years of intense study and personal observation. The previous PAUL + 1 shows have been fixated on the implications and reactions to the pandemic (see BACKSTORY below). In 2023, finally freed from the claustrophobia of COVID and its all-invasive presence PAUL + 1 felt able to explore new and powerful territory.
Blood Orange tackles three large conceptual themes facing contemporary society: The fall of Empire, the rise of women, and wanking (not necessarily in that order).
From these broad, but deceptively simple, topics PAUL + 1 has created a sonic hellscape of contemporaneous hilarity. This is a modern work for modern people that has appealed to both young and old.
Daring and dangerous, and willing to dive head-first into topics most other comedians are afraid of touching, PAUL + 1 offers a dark antidote to this nervous, and overprotective era. This is a show that dances madly where other shows fear to tread. It is a carnival ride of the absurd, a feral outpouring of indignant rage at a broken system, and a sweet-voiced assault on hypocrisy, seamlessly executed by a swaggering idiot and his guitar-playing cocaine bear.
“Naughty fun of the highest calibre” The Clothesline ★★★★★
“Laughter is good for the soul and my soul feels really good now” Glam Adelaide
★★★★★
“McDermott’s sharp songwriting shines in this riotous performance” Adelaide Advertiser
★★★★
“He’s lost none of his aggressive charm” Time Out ★★★★
Note: Most performances are a combination of seated and standing format. Seating is provided for Dinner and Charcuterie bookings and for most General Admission depending on numbers. If you require a seat we suggest arriving when doors open. Bar food available from 6:30pm-9pm. Pre-Show cocktails & drinks available from 5pm in the Salon.
PALAIS-HEPBURN , on Dja Dja Wurrung country
Nominated for Best Regional Venue (Established) in Music Victoria Awards 2022
