Zoë Coombs Marr, Ursula Martinez, and Adrienne Truscott are a performance art super group. In Wild Bore, they join forces to take on the ultimate taboo – talking about their critics.
The first rule of making art is don’t respond to your critics. But in the U.S. premiere of Wild Bore, three masters of smart, political and outrageous comedy delve into the torrent of critical fury that has been aimed at baffling, misunderstood and downright awful works of art — including their own.
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Recommended readings to accompany the Indefinite Article by Lisa Duggan.
- Jill Dolan, The Feminist Spectator as Critic (Second Edition). University of Michigan Press, 2012.
- Jacqueline Millner, Catriona Moore (Editors), Feminist Perspectives on Art: Contemporary Outtakes. Routledge, 2018.
- Kim Solga, Theatre & Feminism. Macmillan Palgrave, 2015.
- Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me. Haymarket Books, 2015.
- Fintan Walsh, Matthew Causey (editors), Performance, Identity, and the Neo-Political Subject. Routledge, 2013.
OFFICE HOURS
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“Critique in general is not bad, but it’s just that bad critique is bad.” – Zoe Coombs Marr
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Zoe Coombs-Marr, Ursula Martinez and Adrienne Truscott try critics’ skin on for size
The show isn’t so much about attacking critics as it is about celebrating criticism as an art form in itself.
Zoë Coombs Marr, Adrienne Truscott and Ursula Martinez combine forces to eviscerate critics
Wild Bore… is a near impossible show for a critic to review.
‘When bad reviews are written with arrogance, it’s the best’
It is a deliciously subversive, often hilarious and thought-provoking show about how much of the critical gaze is white, middle-class and male.
Wild Bore: A Dialogue
Wild Bore problematised and played with the concept of value so much that I have no idea whether or not it’s good.
MEET Zoë Coombs Marr
MEET Zoë Coombs Marr
Zoë Coombs Marr was the winner of the 2016 Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF) award for Trigger Warning and has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, London’s Soho Theatre and MICF.
Zoe Coombs Marr: It’s a sexist world – comedy just reflects it
Zoë Coombs Marr has a thing for green goo.
‘My Politics – It’s Not a Brand’
As a comedian, Coombs Marr is an expert at balancing silly and serious.
Zoë Coombs Marr: why a ‘cranky lesbian in her 30s’ should be person of the year
This is a show for our times.
Meet Ursula Martinez
Meet Ursula Martinez
Ursula Martinez is an established international writer, performer and cult cabaret diva. She produces explosive live performance, for theatre, cabaret, and beyond.
‘Part of me wants to take my clothes off less, but the political me resists that’
Humour, combined with an often disarming openness about her own life, have been central to Martinez’s theatre work since she made her debut.
SPEND A MOMENT WITH URSULA MARTINEZ
“Sometimes theatre (and art in general) is a form of escapism, or a glimpse into a different world. My work is the opposite… I think I have always found a way to make the work quite universal.”
Stripping, bricklaying and flammable G-strings: burlesque queen Ursula Martinez
Martinez took a bricklaying course especially for her new show, Free Admission – something she enjoyed more than she expected.
Meet Adrienne Truscott
Meet Adrienne Truscott
Adrienne Truscott is a choreographer, circus acrobat, dancer, writer, and as of late, comedian, who makes genre-straddling work in New York City and abroad.
Adrienne Truscott by Erin Markey
“I’ve been in therapy, thinking a lot about my experience of time, and I realized there are whole periods of my life that I don’t remember. This is what trauma does to a person.”
Reappropriating the Rape Joke to Taunt Society and Stand-Up
“Of course it‘s a gimmick!” Adrienne Truscott said emphatically. “It‘s also a really relevant, loaded, successful gimmick.”
‘Asking for It’ Uses Wit to Tackle Cultural Norms About Rape
To watch Ms. Truscott unmask these cultural norms, with verve and wit and several beers, is to feel elated and sad and angry all at once.