10 Quick Qs – Geraldine Quinn
1. What, where, when and how much?
Sunglasses at Night: The 80s Apocalypse Sing Along Cabaret’ is on 11.15pm at The Garden of Unearthly Delights. Tickets $25/20. But as I am a glutton for punishment, I am also performing my original Moosehead Award show ‘MDMA: Modern Day Maiden Aunt’ 8:30pm at Producers Hotel, 235 Grenfell Street up until 27 February (no show Mondays, $23/18).
2. Describe your show Twitter style, 140 characters or less:
Sunglasses: A sing along schooling in 80s ponce – PRIZES! MDMA: award-winning rock cabaret re the art of embarrassing other people’s kids.
3. A quote/moment that stands out from your show?
PRIZES! I have crap prizes for best dressed in pretentious 80s glamour for ‘Sunglasses’, and an absolute bucket-load of mondegreens in the onscreen lyrics which the audience follows. Plus I usually end up in the foetal position in a sequinned dress stabbing red balloons with my stiletto heel during Bonnie Tyler…
4. Is heckling allowed?
Nah, just singing along!! Everyone must sing. It’s a sing along! SING!!
5. What is your role in the show?
Writer/performer, etc. for both. The kind people at SeeSault are producing ‘Sunglasses’, but ‘MDMA’ (which is my own songs) is so all-Quinn that I just got nominated for four Green Room Awards in Victoria for Writing, Songs, Artiste and Production (will drag 2 nieces to the ceremony to throw rose petals before me as I enter the foyer of the awards ceremony…too much?).
6. What do you want to be when you grow up?
David Bowie.
7. If you could put on (or be in) any show/band in the world, which one would it be?
Foxy Shazam, but they just broke up! If I could move half as well as Eric Nally I wouldn’t need to take glucosamine… or I may need to mainline glucosamine… one of the other, my knees are terrible.
8. Why would someone not come see your show?
If they had been taken by pirates on the short walk from The Gardens to Producers (my two venues) I may understand. But I would need to see evidence of parrot feathers to be convinced.
9. In your opinion, what is the worst show/movie you’ve ever seen and why?
I once dated a much younger man, and he made me see ‘Titanic’ in 3D in the cinema. I had never even watched it in 2D, and so I was howling with laughter throughout the whole thing. It was mortifyingly saccharine and nonsensical and so very, very awful, the only natural reaction was to make fun of it or my brain would have melted. However after the film, I slowly realised that we were not on the same page with this.
The relationship did not last long.
10. Besides your show, what’s your pick for the Fringe/Garden?
Tessa Waters in ‘WOMANZ’ is thoroughly joyful. Celia Pacquola is always brilliant, and I’ve seen performances from Demi Lardner since she was a RAW contestant years ago – she just makes my guts hurt she’s so funny. And my director for ‘MDMA’ Justin Hamilton – at least one of those award nominations are because he made me draft and redraft my script. His show is excellent.
