FEED'EM FIGHTERS Plays Zenith Theatre

Daryl Lucas (Jason Perini) is a fat, happily married soft-drink salesman living on the NSW Central Coast until the day he walks in on his cheating cougar wife and her young Pilates Instructor. While he plots to divorce her, she arranges for Daryl to be kidnapped by a group of disparate lunatics calling themselves Feedem Fighters. Inspired by shows like Extreme Makeover and The Biggest Loser, these calorie terrorists kidnap fatties and keep them captive in a soundproof room for three months, forcing them to lose weight. Can Daryl convince them he's only being held so his wife can drain his accounts and run off with her Pilates instructor? You'll laugh so much you'll lose two kilos!

Writer Dorian Mode is best known as the author of the laugh-out-loud novel, A Café in Venice, and his comic memoir, The Mozart Maulers, both published by Penguin. He writes features for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald and was a weekend columnist for the Daily Telegraph under the pseudonym Beachcomber - a sitcom based on the column was optioned and made into a television pilot. He is currently the back page columnist for Australia's leading fishing magazine. His first and only screenplay was nominated for Best Unproduced Screenplay at the Australian Writer's Guild Awards and he was an IF Awards finalist again for Best Unproduced Screenplay the same year. (Best ‘Never Produced' Screenplay, he often muses.) Dorian is also a multi-award winning jazz pianist, and lives on the Central Coast with his wife and two children. This is his first play.
Adrian Barnes, director of the sold out season of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap at Zenith in March this year, has assembled a terrific cast to bring this brand new Aussie comedy to life. Jason Perini is a 2009 graduate of Actors Centre Australia and was last seen on our screens in Underbelly 3 - The Golden Mile. Jacqui Livingston, a 2008 graduate of The Actors Centre, has performed in many film, tv and Theatre Projects including A Midsummer Nights Dream for Shakespeare on the Green. Paul Hooper, also a graduate of ACA has performed in theatre productions at Malthouse, Chapel off Chapel and La Mama in Melbourne as well as at the Outhouse Theatre in Dublin, the Tap Gallery and NIDA in Sydney. On television he has appeared in Rescue Special Ops and My Place on ABC. Christopher Sellers is a graduate of the Australian College of Theatre & Television and last appeared at the Zenith in Rope, also directed by Adrian Barnes late last year. Christopher lived and worked as an actor/writer in London for 2 years and has written and performed two short plays Coffee and Time, both seen at the Sydney Fringe Festival and he is now working on a third play Pimp.

SEASON DETAILS: FEEDEM FIGHTERS by DORIAN MODE

VENUE: Zenith Theatre, Cnr McIntosh & Railways Sts, Chatswood

DATES: Thurs June 30 for strictly limited season to July 3 with possible extension to July 10

TIMES: Various - check website for details

TICKETS: Adult $32 / Conc. $28 / Group 10+ $28 each (Additional fees and charges may apply)

BOOKINGS: 02 9777 7547 or www.zeniththeatre.com.au