This is an uplifting and effortlessly clever show. Nicola Gunn is an extraordinary comic talent. The Age

Sans Hotel presents Hello my name is

19 February 2:00pm - 2:25pm 3:30pm - 3:55pm 8:30pm - 8:55pm 20 February 2:00pm - 2:25pm 3:30pm - 3:55pm 8:30pm - 8:55pm 22 February 10:30am - 10:55am 12:00pm - 12:25pm Judith Wright Centre - Theatre Rehearsal Room Theatre 25-min Excerpt 16+ (nudity)

Warm like a spring day and unexpectedly fun like table tennis, this work is about getting to know you

Hello my name is is a highly original participatory performance set in a Community Centre. It unfolds through a chaotic and humorous workshop seminar led by volunteer team leader, Nicola Gunn. Is it a workshop or is it a performance? And who exactly is performing?

Whatever you decide, Hello my name is is a quirky theatrical experience that immerses you in the action and puts a smile on your face. Gunn's fearless eccentricity and forceful charisma will have you unexpectedly taking part in a series of community centre activities in this joyous and uplifting event that reminds us how to engage with, and celebrate, the act of living.

Bookings required. Book at The Depot.

Image: Pier Carthew

Meet the artist

Nicola Gunn / Sans Hotel

Nicola Gunn is a Melbourne-based performance artist and theatre maker. Drawing from autobiography, she makes urgent and relevant work that reflects on and responds to contemporary culture, people and places. Gunn has received critical acclaim for her own genre of bewilderingly surreal performance that addresses themes of identity and transformation in both the social and individual realms.

Together with creative collaborators Gwen Holmberg-Gilchrist, Pier Carthew and Michael Fikaris, she leads Sans Hotel, an award-winning performance and design collective committed to experimental and site-specific work.

www.nicolagunn.com