GRUMBLE: Sex Clown Saves the World Returns to Melbourne
Betty Grumble is the avatar creation of Sydney based performance artist Emma Maye Gibson. With a rich background in physical theatre and dance and a MFA in Sculpture and Performance Art, Gibson has created Grumble as a singular character in which a myriad of womanhoods combine to celebrate hope for the liberated woman body and combat a world ruled by toxic masculinity, corporate capitalisms and our amputation from nature.
In Sex Clown Saves The World, first toured at the Adelaide Fringe 2016 where it won the Underbelly Edinburgh Award, Grumble emerges as a sex-positive, ecosexual, pleasure activist. Through a genre-smash of cabaret, burlesque, performance art, poetry and dance, Betty Grumble engages her audiences in a shamanic storytelling of her lived experiences and desire to save the world. She believes in 'love and light', 'love and anger' and wants to 'return to the Earth.'
The self-proclaimed Angry Woman has taken her Sex Clown-ing to Edinburgh Fringe and London where it was touted as the underground hit of the festival - controversial in its shlock and bodily abandon. Grumble has continued to tour her work across Australia and is deeply excited to bring her work to the iconic Butterfly Club in her beloved Melbourne.
Are you Betty to Grumble?
Back by popular demand after her Edinburgh, London and Berlin bounces - Betty Grumble brings her seminal vibrations and shamanic storytelling to Melbourne.
Meet Betty Grumble, Surreal Showgirl, Obscene Beauty Queen and Sex Clown. Experience her ecosexy, feminist cabaret of deep disco dissent as it spills onto the stage of the iconic Butterfly Club. Witness her sensual odyssey of maniacal laughters, internal organs and an unshaming ritual of song and dance. Total love and anger...Total Beauty.
'Cause if it wasn't so serious she wouldn't be laughing so hard.
Tickets are $25-32 and can be purchased at thebutterflyclub.com
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