The Centre Stage Residency at The Mill will progress a new work by Britt Plummer of FRANK Theatre to its next stage of development, including work-in-progress public showings and culminating in a season at The Mill as part of Adelaide Fringe 2021.
Britt will be directing The Baroque with collaborator and performer Oliver Nilsson, Swedish clown (The Latebloomers, Scotland! and The Bakers). The work incorporates physical theatre, clowning and slapstick, and audiences will experience radical vulnerability, rarely exposed by men combined with bursting silliness, physical comedy, dance and music.
The Baroque
The Baroque is running free in hedge mazes and drinking champagne from nude fountains. Bursting with silliness Swedish clown Oliver Nilsson (The Latebloomers, Scotland! and The Bakers) will charm and titillate in this rollercoaster of stupidity, slapstick and the sublime. “The rubber-faced Nilsson - a kind of tall, Nordic Rowan Atkinson.” (The West Australian)
“We are delighted to be partnering with The Adelaide Fringe Artist Fund to launch the inaugural Centre Stage Residency! The successful recipient, Britt Plummer of FRANK Theatre is a worthy artist whose work we have watched grow exponentially over the past two years. One of The Mill’s primary focusses is to support artist's career pathways over a number of years and having supported Britt with a Spotlight Residency in 2019, we see the Centre Stage Residency as the next level of support we can offer in the development of her career as a director,” says The Mill Director, Katrina Lazaroff.