Tag: storytelling
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Review: LOVES ME / LOVES ME NOT at Adelaide Fringe
Review of Loves Me/Loves Me Not by Glam Adelaide’s Arts Editor, Brian Godfrey. JC Clapham had a big hit here last Adelaide Fringe with a show called Humpty Dumpty Daddy. After seeing his latest Fringe show, Loves Me/Loves Me Not, I wish I could have seen that one as well. This reviewer came out of…
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Profiled in The Westsider
My local community newspaper The Westsider, which covers the inner west of Melbourne, ran a profile of me in their November issue.
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New show premieres at Melbourne Fringe
I’m rapt to announce that my new storytelling comedy show, LOVES ME / LOVES ME NOT, premieres at Melbourne Fringe Festival on 21 September 2017. This show is about losing love but finding yourself (and all the shit in between)… it’s a combination of my own story of my marriage ending, as well as some…
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Humpty Dumpty Daddy is going to Sydney
I’m super excited to share with you that my storytelling show about fatherhood and mental health, Humpty Dumpty Daddy, will be part of this year’s Sydney Fringe program. After great audience feedback in Melbourne and Adelaide, (and good pre-show buzz in Darwin for mid-July) I’m taking my story to more people in more places. Tickets aren’t…
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Guest appearance on Tales From The Mind Boat podcast
The brilliant storyteller and genuinely wonderful person, Trav Nash, had me as a guest on his podcast Tales from the Mind Boat. Listen to Trav’s story about working for a removal company based inside a uni. And stay listening for my story about love, loss and understanding destiny. It was a treat to do this…
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19 years ago today, my father hanged himself
Today marks 19 years since my father hanged himself. For more than half of those years, I hated him. Intensely. Fiercely. But now, having been right to the same metaphorical ledge he stood on (but stepped back and resolved never to get there again), I feel desperately sad for him. I miss him. And I…
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Adelaide Fringe 2017. That happened.
As the cool kids say, O.M.G! Adelaide Fringe was something equally wonderful and terrifying. Nothing like I ever thought truly possible, but nearly everything I dared hope, at the same time. I was to do 5 shows of HUMPTY DUMPTY DADDY, my one-person storytelling show about fatherhood, mental health, and storytelling. It’s ultimately the story…
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Humpty Dumpty Daddy in Adelaide & Melbourne
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JC @ Bazaar Tales, 5 Sept 2016
Here’s a recording of me giving a 10min preview of ‘Humpty Dumpty Daddy’ at Melbourne’s monthly night Bazaar Tales storytelling on 5/9/16. Being the day after Fathers Day, this month’s theme was ‘Dads’. Apt and fortuitous. My enormous gratitude to Cathy Culliver for allowing me the stage time, and also to the audience who were…