Paper Tape Clown ❤️🔥 For @polyglottheatre last September at We The Young festival, Aotearoa last year. Thrilled to be Paper Planet-ing again at Theatre der Welt Festival in Germany in June this year before commencing my extended hangout (move) in London (🙊)
Mrs Lovett’s little devil ❤️🔥 so proud of my girl @elliotwouldnt
I found the frequency of wild mirth I love to perform in by their side and it has been a beautiful thing to do our work a stones throw from eachother this comedy festival.
You have ONE (1) MORE CHANCE to see Mrs Lovett’s Famous Meat Pies Grand Reopening Extravaganza 🥧 tonight! April 12, 8:20 pm Motley Bauhaus, Cabaret Stage. Get to it ❤️🔥
Genius Jamesey wrote a show. There have been many that have worked hard to bring it to life, but on our closing I want to celebrate them for a moment.
This play cares for the world and its audiences in a way I think all art should strive to. It is fun, courageous and deeply acknowledges the beauty and terror of life today and eternally. Unafraid to say what it thinks whilst also leaving a gap for people to find their own path to understanding. It is kind to people whose hearts are hurting for any number of reasons. It has been a rare honour to make something so ambitious in form, theme and scope.
James gave me the gift of my favourite character in Salaì. Salaì is a fool that is made and remade continually. Their queerness has allowed me to play and be seen in how queerness has always felt to me. The resounding euphoria speaks to the alchemical magic of this craft.
James also assembled an ensemble of the most beautiful makers you could ever meet, and created a space where I have gotten to learn from heroes of the craft.
To bring it together, James gave us a process of rigour and extreme mirth that has spanned months, periods of grief, planetary uncertainty and James navigating life across two continents. James has let us play in, pull apart and stitch the playground of his words back together again and again and again with extreme generosity and expertise of how stories are built. It has been a big challenge, but my heart feels full of courage now.
Throughout the whole period they have been a beautiful partner and support to me in and out of process.
I hope very very much that we get another run, somewhere along the line. I love doing this show. Viva little devil!
We have one more show tonight! We’d love you to be there, to help up bring it home ❤️🔥
A huge thank you to @the.ryan.hamilton for their thoughtful words on 🎭Little Devil and the War Machine🎭 in their latest ‘Gag City’ dispatch.
According to Ryan, the "demon twinks" and "hyper-masc himbos" of 1502 surprisingly have a lot to say about the military-industrial complex of 2026. This little devil concurs.😈
Only a few shows remain! Don’t miss your chance to make love and break empires.
🎟️Book @little.devil.show
March 23 - April 5 9:30 PM nightly
The Motley WhereHaus @themotleysatellites Photos by @maryscho@jamesvinsonpictus
#melbournecomedyfestival #commediadellarte
The plans are drawn, the catapult cocked.
🎭Little Devil and the War Machine🎭 is officially live at The Motley WhereHaus for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Forced by a tyrant to invest the future of warfare, Leonardo da Vinci may be a Renaissance Man, but his boyfriend Salaì is a Renaissance Menace; hellbent on sabotaging sieges and dynamiting desire in a queer Commedia rollick that blows the dust off history with an overcompensating canon. Witness a foolish fusion of physical comedy and satire with enough anatomical accuracy and raunchy perspective to make a master painter blush.
🎟️Tickets available in bio @little.devil.show
March 23 - April 5 9:30 PM nightly
The Motley WhereHaus @themotleysatellites Players:
Phoebe Mason as Leonardo
Meg Taranto as Salaì
Tim Sneddon as Machiavelli
Fabio Motta as Borgia
Writer Director: James Vinson Producer: Claudia Harris Tech: Tiah Bullock Trailer Music: @albert_salt
#melbournecomedyfestival #commediadellarte
ID: A hyper fast cut of Meg Taranto playing Salaì, Phoebe Mason playing Da Vinci, Tim Sneddon playing Machiavelli, and Fabio Motta as Cesare Borgia. Meg is tressed in a vest, trunk hose, and pale lovers makeup with blush. Tim is dressed in a Brighella mask and a black tunic. Fabio is dressed in a Capitano mask, red velvet cape and black and red ruffled shirt and black tights. Phoebe is dressed in a Dottore mask, long red tunic, yellow socks and ribbons in her hair.
Every tyrant loves to play with his sword.
🎟️Tickets in bio @little.devil.show
🎭Little Devil and the War Machine🎭
March 23 - April 5
9:30 PM nightly
The Motley WhereHaus @themotleysatellites �#melbournecomedyfestival
ID: A video of Fabio Motta as Duke Cesare Borgia dancing with his sword, wearing a Capitano mask, rehearsing with Meg Taranto playing Salaì. They are performing in a cheeky cartoonish manner in a white walled studio with a tall ceiling and dark wooden floors.
🎭Little Devil and the War Machine🎭 brings Commedia Dell’Arte to @melbcomedyfestival after an early showing at the Fitzroy Town Hall with @cityofyarra
🎟️Tickets in bio @little.devil.show
March 23 - April 5
9:30 PM nightly
The Motley WhereHaus @themotleysatellites #melbournecomedyfestival
Video by @tomblock200
Costume pieces @josiahlulham
ID: A montage of key moments from Little Devil and the War Machine depicting Meg Taranto as Salaì, Phoebe Mason as Leonardo da Vinci, Fabio Motta as Cesare Borgia, and Tim Sneddon as Niccolò Machiavelli. The performers are wearing traditional Commedia Dell’Arte Masks, including Capitano, Brighella, and Dottore. The performance style is energetic, slapstick, and cartoonish. The performance space is an expansive wooden library hall with tall library shelves and a large mirror. There is a captive audience of 100 people.
Rehearsals begin! The war machine turns! But who will break it?! 🎭Little Devil and the War Machine🎭 March 23 - April 5 9:30 PM nightly The Motley WhereHaus @themotleysatellites #melbournecomedyfestival
💋Make love.💋💥Break empires.💥’Little Devil and the War Machine’ joins the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2026!
Forced by a tyrant to invent the future of warfare, Leonardo da Vinci may be a Renaissance Man, but his boyfriend Salaì is a Renaissance Menace; hellbent on sabotaging sieges and dynamising desire in a camp commedia rollick that blows the dust off history with an overcompensating canon.
Witness a foolish fusion of physical comedy and satire with enough anatomical accuracy and raunchy perspective to make a master painter blush.
Poster design: @henrylucas5 🎭 Little Devil and the War Machine 🎭
📅 March 23 - April 5
🕤 9:30 PM nightly
📍 The Motley WhereHaus
