The Needle and the Damage Done
Written and Performed by Fiona Scott-Norman
Directed by Paul McCarthy
The Q Performing Arts Centre Queanbeyan
5,6,7 March @ 8.00pm
Tickets $17-$32 www.theq.net.au or phone (02) 62980290
"Needle is a perfectly timed emotional rollercoaster, with roaring laughter giving way to shock, embarrassment, horror and back to laughter again. Horrifically embarrassing, infinitely uncomfortable and one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen," Kate Buchanan, The Geelong Times
Comedian, DJ, writer, ex-critic and Green Room Award winner Fiona Scott-Norman will lead audiences through an unbelievable top ten of the most cringe-worthy music in the world. The Needle and the Damage Done is two parts nostalgia, four parts cultural satire and ten parts shock and awe comedy.
Born in England, within hearing range of Benny Hill’s theme song, stand up comic and DJ, Fiona Scott-Norman has been collecting bad vinyl since she was old enough to shoplift a Rolf Harris record. "I’ve always been obsessed with bad music…the foisting of appalling music on innocents has always given me a thrill. People cry laughing at this show."
She has had sell out performances at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, performed Needle at The Sydney Opera House, won a Green Room Award, had rave reviews at The Adelaide Cabaret Festival and appeared on ABC’s TV The Collectors.
Part slide-show, part show and tell, part cabaret, part stand-up The Needle And The Damage Done takes audiences on an hysterical journey through the musical excesses of William Shatner, VFL footballers, christians, Bernard King, white supremacists, Torville and Dean, racists, and John Laws. Two parts nostalgia, two parts cultural satire, ten parts shock and awe.
Parental guidance is recommended for this production
