mka | fitzroy gardens pavilion
presents
 
 

An Unauthorised History of Moomba

The Midnight Horrors

1955 – present. 

 

The Annual Melbourne four day Moomba Festival means a lot of things to a lot of people.

 

Originally it was thought to literally mean “‘let’s get together and have fun”. It doesn’t. It was a prank from indigenous playwright and political activist Bill Onus in part to get back at the city council for having deliberately upstaged the traditional Labour Day march with a popular carnival.
Moomba actually means ‘Up Your Bum’.

 

A parade of monarchs. A large-scale all in brawl.  An overhead projector. Probably only one of these things will appear in:
An Unauthorised History of Moomba.

 

A one-off special event.
Meticulously researched.
Devoutly crafted.
Completely irreverent. 

Tobias Manderson-Galvin (he) has performed historically accurate roles inc. ‘Captain Cameron‘ (a mashup of James Cameron and David Cameron) in Doppelgangster’s Titanic (2015-16), ‘Hitlerhoff ‘(a mashup of David Hasselhoff and Hitler) in Tom Doig’s Hitlerhoff (2008-09), and the almost dead ‘Walt Disney‘ in MKA’s production of A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney by Lucas Hnath (2018).

Teneille Clerke (she/they) is best known as the host of ‘It’s Your Funeral: The Game Show!‘ Since 2015 Clerke has organised the annual ‘Farshans on the Field’ competition; an event that has since blossomed into the official annual Anti-Melbourne Cup/Nup to the Cup protest/celebration. Her 2018 work Live Streams involved meeting audiences invited solely through word of mouth beside Merri Creek, to look at a literal live stream.

Details

One Show Only
CANCELLED

Session Duration

75min

Venue
MKA’s Fitzroy Gardens Pavilion

Directions
In Fitzroy Gardens, next to the Tudor Village and the Fairies Tree, near Clarendon Street. A 2 min walk from Jolimont Rail Station.

 

Credits

Lead Artists:

Tobias Manderson-Galvin  tobiasmandersongalvin.com
Teneille Clerke  tenfingerz.com

Acknowledgments

MKA’s Fitzroy Gardens Pavilion aka The Pavilion at Fitzroy Gardens is managed by Creative Spaces, a program of the City of Melbourne