YOU CHOSE POORLY Comes to MICF

We make an infinite number of choices every day - in relationships, in finance, in Buzzfeed quizzes. But how do we make them - and why are some of them so terrible?

To find out, science comedian Alanta Colley and 'geek comedy's patron saint' (T-Squat magazine) Ben McKenzie embark on their first collaboration: a comedy experiment using sketch, stand-up and gentle (and highly ethical) audience participation, gathering data each night and across the season to explore the psychology behind the bad decisions we all make.

Ben and Alanta will adventure into our cognitive biases. We'll unpack the complex ways humans can believe two entirely contradictory things at the same time. We'll take a look at how we imagine ourselves paragons of virtue, while also maybe having crashed a trolley into that Tesla in the supermarket carpark and definitely not leaving a note. Not that you can prove it. How well do we really understand ourselves?

Join Alanta and Ben as they dive into our psyches, paddle about in the collective subconscious, and sun themselves on the deck chairs of our hopes and fears, all in the hope that we might, one day, know thyself.

Alanta Colley a science communicator and comedian with a degree in public health. Her debut solo show Parasites Lost sold out at the 2017 MICF, and has since been performed to sold out rooms at the Sydney Science Festival, FRINGE WORLD, Adelaide Fringe, and for the Gates Foundation in Seattle. Her follow up show Days of our Hives played to more beekeepers than any other show at the festival. Alanta also produces and hosts the Sci Fight science comedy debates regularly in Melbourne, and took them on their first national tour in 2018. She keeps bees and secrets.

Ben McKenzie is an actor, comedian, writer, game designer and nerd for all seasons. Since his last solo show, Ben McKenzie is Uncool, he's performed nerdy impro comedy Dungeon Crawl to huge crowds at games expo PAX Aus, travelled through space and time with Susan from Neighbours in the award-winning audio comedy Night Terrace - soon to air internationally - and started the monthly Terry Pratchett book club podcast Pratchat, now in its second year. His favourite dinosaur is Stegosaurus.

You Chose Poorly runs from April 1 to April 7 only. Bookings recommended.

Tickets: https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2019/shows/you-chose-poorly

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/287026255286848/

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