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creativity, career, relationship… or can it ever be balanced? My opinion: it can never be balanced, it is never static, it is delicious chaos, nothing by halves. Mother of twins and a but we all have moments where we get to think mother of an act onstage, Clare is renowned for ‘Yep, this is working’. And then they’re gone knockout shows that also feature a spontaneous again. So, although it is important to understand comedy set. Seven had a chat with the divine Ms balance and aim towards it, we cannot always Bowditch on the eve of her Byron Show. control it. What is a regular day for Clare Bowditch? I Why don’t you think men ever get asked that guess that one of the realities about being a question? Hmmm… lots of reasons, but also creative entrepreneur that rarely gets talked possibly because they don’t give birth. Talked about is there is very little regular routine, about or not, it’s a big thing. and we create it anew most days of the week. Would you call yourself a feminist? If yes or Life, death and taxes: these things are certain. no then tell me why. Yes, absolutely, and I’m Waking up and cuddling little people and also a humanist and general a ‘Possibilitarian’. dressing and domestic duties: all guaranteed. We know the stats: when women are taken care Building in other routines has been the key to of, or given a chance to take care of themselves, doing the things I do. I work in an office three they go on to care for others. We know so days a week, and from home or a studio the often how they suffer, both in our country and other days. Or I’m on tour… I think you get in developing countries. Just makes sense to the impression. It changes, but the constant is support them: we call that benefit. that I am always there: with my phone and my Clare Bowditch is at the Byron Community handbag and my heart and my ideas and my Centre on Saturday. Tix: $43 Pre / $48 songs and my fears and so on. Door – 8pm start. byroncentre.com.au or How do you manage to balance family, kupromotions.com.au
CLARE BOWDITCH KNOWS HOW TO DELIVER. She’s a woman who does
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TOM GLEESON TIX Comedian Tom Gleeson is about to go into showbiz lockdown when he fronts Channel 10’s new This Week Live comedy panel show. Catch his last few live shows before he’s back on the box. Two great shows with a double pass to give to each. Friday 30 Aug at the Byron Brewery and Saturday 31 Aug at Cabarita Beach Sports Club. Tix are worth $25 each – enquiries at the venues. To win, email gigscomp@echo.net.au with subject header ‘tom tom club’. THE STORY TREE We have two of Jenny Cargill’s gorgeous new CDs to give away – The Story Tree and other nature tales. Jenny cleverly tells everyday stories that help empower children with a sense of wonder and whimsy about their natural world. It certainly kept my four-year-old quiet on our six-hour car journey! Email gigscomp@echo.net.au with subject header ‘story tree for me’.
How do you think music and the arts can help empathise or politicise people? It’s their nature. I think you can make art that doesn’t try to create empathy or politicise popular song in one glorious evening at people but you have to work really hard Lismore City Hall this Wednesday. at it. People are art. Stories are art. The Tell me, what you mean when you say clothes you wear are the story you’re telling ‘artists should be students of humanity’? the world. They way you walk is a dance We should learn what makes people tick, of some sorts. I think more things are art how we function, what people need (not forms than we generally acknowledge. to be confused with what they want) so we Civil disobedience is an art form. Go to any can try to give it to them. I think of the arts protest and you will see art: homemade as a service industry, which means I’m here signs, t-shirts, chants, songs, etc. A political to help the audience. People often think speech uses many of the same tools that it’s presumptuous when you say you know great Aristotelian drama uses. A political what you’re audience needs but I think my filibuster is durational performance art. A job is to pay attention to people and see couple fighting or kissing on the street: the what they’re crying out for that they don’t greatest show on Earth. necessarily even know they’re crying out for. Do you think gender has been too If a plumber says she knows what my sink rigid? What freedoms have you found needs, I don’t think that’s presumptuous of artistically and personally in a more her. I assume she knows how to do her job. boots-and-all approach? Well yes. Much Learning what makes people tick is my job. I too rigid. I like specific things and believe don’t always succeed, as people are bit more in specificity. But just because something is elusive than plumbing. But the attempt is specific doesn’t mean it can’t change. Rather what makes the arts a noble profession. than saying that everyone is every gender, I prefer to think that everyone can be every What are the social issues you are most gender at some point in their life. The passionate about? Most of the social second question here is better answered by issues I’m interested in, such as religious coming to the show. You’ll see the freedom persecution (by which I mean persecution in it. Maybe one day I’ll want to describe it from religious people), equality, and but right now it feels better experienced. class struggles stem from my distaste of homogeneity. I’m fascinated with the ‘other’ Do you believe there is a little Snow White and wish that everyone could spend more and evil queen in all of us? Absolutely. time celebrating and experiencing things There’s a naive heroine and vainglorious that are different from themselves. crone in us all. Thank god.
LEGENDARY NEW YORK PERFORMANCE ARTISTS TAYLOR MAC presents one hundred years of
Music Mac-ing
What stories of life and humanity are you trying to tell us in your show? I’m trying to remind us of the things we’ve forgotten, dismissed or buried. I often say my job as a theatre artist is not to teach my audience anything but to remind them. I’m an awful teacher. But I do know how to remind people of things they already know and do it in a way that they can see those things from a slightly different perspective. That doesn’t really answer your question but that’s the answer my addled jet-lagged brain can come up with at this moment. I promise
I’ll be recovered by show time! How do you know when you have touched a crowd? Many different ways. Laughter. Silence. Cheers. Gasps. Heckles. Walk-outs. Applause. A lack of applause. Emails and letters and posts and tweets. If someone talks to me about the ideas in the show as opposed to simply saying they liked it or didn’t like it, then I know I’ve gotten through. Tix A$47 | S $42 | C $38 | U/18 $20. Booking ph 1300 066 772 or www.norpa.org.au.
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