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Who's the Best?
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- Venue: Space Theatre
- When: Tue 28 Feb 02:00 PM - 03:15 PM
- Genre: Theatre
- Main Audience: Adults (18+)
- Producer: Viv Rosman, Performing Lines
- No. in touring party: 4
Who’s the Best?
In Who’s the Best? acclaimed collective post are on a mission to settle an ongoing debate. A contest of identity with no end point, no rules and no real meaning: it’s about winning.
Who’s the Best? charts the long and arduous process of post determining - once and for all - the answer to the question no-one wanted to ask out loud: which of them is definitively, empirically, the best.
They’ve undergone months of gruelling magazine quizzes, enneagram tests, underwear comparisons, hand-eye coordination assessments, IQ analysis, debates and test audience surveys. Now, they present their results.
Delivering hilariously mind-bending arguments at a breakneck speed, the performers battle it out on stage, sidetracked by the minutia of category labels and criteria. Also threatening to overtake the competition is the stage itself - as set, lighting and sound carry on their own show, regardless of the competitors’ intentions.
Part stand up comedy, part presentation, and part contemporary performance, Who’s the Best? is a stark portrait of the way competition functions in our society – but with amazing dance breaks.
Devised and performed by post: Zoe Coombs Marr, Mish Grigor, Natalie Rose with Eden Falk
Lighting Design: Matthew Marshall
Sound Design: James Brown
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post are Zoe Coombs Marr, Natalie Rose and Mish Grigor, Sydney-based artists who devise and perform original work.
In 2011 post toured Who’s the Best? nationally after an initial commission and premiere at Sydney Theatre Company. Venues included Melbourne’s Arts House, Brisbane Powerhouse, Mandurah Arts Centre and Darwin Festival. Who’s The Best? features guest actor Eden Falk.
In 2010 they were commissioned by performance group version 1.0 to create Everything I Know About The Global Financial Crisis In One Hour for the double bill A Distressing Scenario at Belvoir Street Theatre. In 2009, post’s Shamelessly Glitzy Work was presented at Performance Space in Sydney, Brisbane Powerhouse, and Melbourne's Arts House. It was nominated for a Green Room Award and shortlisted for the Phillip Parson’s Playwright Award. Their work Gifted and Talented won Best Performance at the 2007 Melbourne Fringe Festival and the Adelaide Fringe Touring Award, as well as having successful seasons in Sydney and Brisbane (as part of the 2007 Brisbane Festival Under The Radar program).
post have been artists-in-residence at Sydney Theatre Company, Arts House (Melbourne), Performance Space, Bundanon, Invisible Circus (New York), PACT, UNSW, and The Rex Cramphorn Theatre. post’s work is produced by Performing Lines.
Photo: Grant Sparkes-Carroll
CONTACT
Producer, Performing Lines
Redfern NSW 2016
