We’re thinking orange thoughts,
inside our orange heads as we dream orange dreams, within our orange beds, Because we’re musing on the time, we spun some orange tails, we’ve lived an orange year, in the time since that travail!
One year on from closing Yellow Red Fruit and we think of our beautiful audiences all the time. It was a pleasure to enter the Orange with you all and to hear all of your Orange stories since. We’re so grateful that the fruit that is built to share has been the symbol of community we hypothesised it would be and wanted to make a show about.
In our Orange year we have begun development on a new work, including a residency at the generous haven that is @lamamatheatre . This week saw us getting to play with friends new and old Aram Geleris, Al Filjemico and Caito Zacharias and remote angel of play Lui Eidelson.
We have been savouring the process and learning how to play, every day, within the world we live in and the community we seek to foster.
We look forward to more play with beloved audiences soon. 🍊❤️🔥🍊❤️🔥🍊❤️🔥🍊❤️🔥🍊❤️🔥🍊❤️🔥🍊❤️🔥🍊❤️🔥
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In these magic photos you’ll find
1. Everyone’s Orange peel, elevated to a high offering after our opening night. Of Yellow - Red Fruit
2. Artists of Yellow Red Fruit - Sunny Youngsmith, Solomon Rumble, Meg Taranto and Aram Geleris. Not pictured are excellent Isabella Edwards @byisabellaedwards Sidney Younger @sidney.younger and Kevin Hojerslev @hojerslevkevin .
3. The audience hanging out under the orange.
4. Aram Geleris, Meg Taranto, Al Fimjemico and Caito Zacharias in development for a new work.
Spotlight on our DIVINE liveable orange designed by resident genius Isabella Edwards @isaedwardz
Isa’s beautiful design is the dream of the performer/deviser. It is the most magical space we have performed in and fosters a very special connection between everyone that comes into the theatre. Between the audience themselves, and between us and our audience. After our shows our great joy is reemerging into the tent to watch people talk and eat oranges. It feels like a merry and thoughtful celebration of life - exactly the type of space we seek before anything else as a company.
The tent itself is an enormous feat, taking much care and problem solving to get into the air. It utilises almost 300 meters of orange poplin and at one point in the past weeks there was no orange fabric left at any spotlight in Melbourne.
Isa and her wonderful dad Michael worked tirelessly on this piece of art and we thank them both deeply for making our dreams come true
This video is from our pre show warm up yesterday, when we got to dance around in our wonderland.
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Don’t Miss the Bus!!!
Final Night of Yellow Red Fruit, tonight, 6:30 PM 🍊
We have loved sharing our orange hearts with our magnificent audiences, thank you for all the support 🍊
If you have been asking yourself this question…. We might be able to give you some answers…..
Three more chances to enter the orange!!!
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Do you find us aPEELing!? 🥹
Come and get juicy with us! 🍊
Tickets Available for tonight and our weekend shows!!
Friday 5th - TONIGHT- 7:30
Saturday 6th - 1:00 pm
Saturday 6th - 7:30
Sunday 7th - SELLING FAST! - 6:30
See you inside the orange 🫶🏼
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🍊WE ARE OPEN !!!!!!!!!🍊
Thank you to our zesty opening night audience who filled the orange with so much warmth and loveliness. The fools had a MAGNIFICENT night with all of you. Four more chances to get under this peel!
Delicious fruity photo by @farrow_photo
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The Fools give their BIGGEST and WARMEST thanks to The Orange Lady who have generously helped to supply magnificent oranges for the show….. you migghhht get to enjoy them at some point…. But you’ll have to come to the show to see 😜 Chris, Francis and their family are proof that people of the orange are generosity and warmth incarnate. And as they say “if you’re playing with oranges, that’s good.”
Please check out The Orange Lady facebook page and support them at Farmers Markets around Melbourne. They frequent the Coburg, Flemington and Elwood markets, just to name a few.
You have to try their orange juice, it is liquid sunlight ☀️
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ID: a black backdrop with oranges of difference sizes. Over the top is a picture of Meg a person wearing a red beanie and a long yellow puffer jacket. They are holding two oranges. Beside them is Francis of The Orange Lady, he wears a grey windbreaker and also holds two oranges. He is smiling. They are standing inside an orange tent with lots of citrus fruit around, it is the Orange lady stall at the Coburg Farmers Market.
T minus 7.5 hours until ORANGE - the fools can’t wait to meet you very soon 🧡 Lots of tickets available for the rest of the season so come and PLAY! 🍊
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🍊SUNNY YOUNGSMITH (they/them) 🍊
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Sunny (they/them) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Naarm. Their work focuses on exploring queer and neurodivergent perspectives as an actor, writer, producer, and stage manager. Most recently Sunny produced and performed Meaty Sue’s Big Farma which will be hitting Edinburgh Fringe Festival this August. They also produced and performed in Ned Kelly: the Big Gay Musical in the 2023 Melbourne Comedy Festival and Melbourne Fringe Festival.
Sunny graduated in 2019 with a BFA (Acting) from the VCA, University of Melbourne with credits including Girl Student in Mad Forest (dir. Sean Mee), MIHA in DFLTLX (dir. Alyson Campbell), Beatrice in A View From The Bridge (dir. John Kachoyan), and Murderer in Macbeth (dir. Michael Kantor). Sunny has written and performed in multiple shows within the Melbourne Festival scene both as a solo and with others. Sunny’s screen credits include TVC 7Eleven Australia: Redeem 2020 (dir. Danny Cohen), and web-series Frank’s Patch (dir. Patrick Whelan and Tyrie Aspinall).
Sunny stage managed Promiscuous Cities (Midsumma Theatre Works 2023), How to be a Person When the World is Ending (Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2022, Melbourne Fringe Festival 2022), Assistant Stage Managed We Are Lightning! (Arts House, 2017), and was a guest artist on 10 Minute Dance Parties (Frankston Arts Centre 2023, The Arts Centre Melbourne, 2020), and Infinity Dance Jam (Melbourne Fringe Festival, 2018).
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🍊KEVIN HOJERSLEV (he/him) 🍊
Kevin Hojerslev is a multidisciplinary dramaturg and performance maker with an interest in the development of new work and new theatre making styles. He graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a degree in theatre during which he co-devised and performed in ‘Rats on Cocaine Prefer Jazz’. He was also a part of the developments of On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers (dir. Susie Dee) and Leopard Print Loincloth (dir. Dominic Weintraub). Since graduating, Kevin has been the graduate dramaturg at Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre where he was the production dramaturg on ‘Caught’ (dir. Jean Tong) and the assistant director on Fast Food (dir. Bridget Balodis) as well as working on developments as part of their new writing program, INK. In 2023, Kevin was a part of the Besen Family Artist Program at Malthouse Theatre Company as a dramaturg. As a part of this program, Kevin did dramaturgy placements on Loaded (dir. Stephen Nicolazzo) and Hour of the Wolf (dir. Matt Lutton).
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🍊SIDNEY YOUNGER 🍊
Sidney is an award winning emerging Lighting Designer, and a graduate of the BFA (Design and Production) degree at the VCA. His works have been seen by audiences across Australia, praised by reviews as “one of the best lighting designers Melbourne has to offer”.
Designs include ‘A Case for the Existence of God’ (Red Stitch), ‘Every Lovely Terrible Thing’ (Lab Kelpie), ‘Parade’ & ‘Songs for a New World’ (Soundworks), ‘Insert Self’ (Chunky Move), ‘Redhealer’ (Back to Back), ‘Niusia’ & ‘Still Buried’ (Kathryn Yates), ‘Uncle Vanya’ (Anthropocene Play Co), ‘Songs of the Flesh’ (Danger Ensemble), ‘Motherlod_^e’ (Frenzy Theatre) & ‘Bach’s Universe’ (Brandenberg Orchestra).
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