Brisbane Fringe Festival: Beauty And The Billboard

Beauty and the Billboard is a performance piece exploring the ways in which women are influenced by media and societal narrative. Performer Alice Night is better known as a singer songwriter but crosses into other art forms such as novel writing, theatre writing and performance art.

Joined by closet actress Tess Millerick on stage for Beauty and the Billboard, archetypes and stereotypes will be held up for examination through theatre and performance. This show explores the dangerous power of media in manipulating and controlling both women and men through projections of beauty and perfection. The performers seek to provide a window into the inner experiences of insecurity, jealousy and self doubt sparked by societal mechanisms of controlling people and particularly women.

Environments such as strip clubs, everyday fashion, beauty surgery, media and pornography will be explored during the show. Papers are signed and secrets are revealed in an attempt to be accepted, loved and seen. Peoples’ relationships to their bodies will be highlighted through recordings played during the show of verbatim responses to a set of interview questions.