Tickets from edfringe.com
(no show on the 17th)
Nominated 'best show' Melbourne Comedy Festival 2010.
Sold out at Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne Comedy and Brisbane Out of the Box Festivals!
A cool show for anyone aged 5-500 million (dinosaurs allowed). Guaranteed not educational and more fun than a Wii!
This show is
1. rude
2. gross
3. funny
3a funny-looking
4. silly
5. downtownwrong
6. awesome.
This show is not
1. sensible
3. About pirates, princesses, fairies or pixies
4. farty (actually that's a lie)
5. spelllchecked
6. full of marrow bone jelly
PS We just bought a fart machine!
What kids say:
Iris (6): "I loved it even though I didn’t get to touch an alien. The only people who might not like it would be really sensible people."
Orla (8): "The List Operators! The Kings of Laughter, They couldn’t get any more funny or dafter" big-v.com
Jasper (6): "This was WAY more funny than any other shows Mum takes us to."
What old people have said:
"it would almost be a waste for this gloriously anarchic show to be seen only by children." Steve Bennett (about 100), Chortle.co.uk
"Take every child you know. If you don't know any - kidnap some." Aussie Theatre.com
People of England! We have one show only in your fair(ish) capital city. ONE SHOW ONLY!
We are in the N20 comedy festival at the BAC on our way up to Edinburgh. Please join us. The show includes:
- Stunts
- Highish Production Values
- Pathos
- Choreography
- A joke
Date and Time: July 29, 2010 - 7pm
£8 (£5 concs)
tix from: http://www.bac.org.uk/whats-on/list-operators-n2o-comedy-festival/
Getting there:
The closest Underground stations to BAC are Clapham Common on the Northern line or Stockwell on the Victoria line. Either of these stations is approximately a 15 minute bus journey away. The 345 bus departs from outside both stations and travels along Lavender Hill stopping outside BAC.
THE LIST OPERATORS FOR KIDS PRESENT: MORE FUN THAN A Wii AT MELBOURNE COMEDY FESTIVAL!
27 March - 11 April, Tue-Sun 2pm
The Bosco
City Square, Cnr Swanston & Collins Sts, Melbourne
Tix from $ 12! From Ticketmaster 1300 660 013
and at the door
A cool show for anyone aged 5-500 million (dinosaurs allowed).
Guaranteed Not Educational!
This show is: 1. Rude 2. Gross 3.
Funny 3a. Funny Looking 4. Silly 5. Downtownwrongtown 6. Awesome!
OLD PEOPLE REVIEWS
"The List Operators For Kids. Best. Kids.
Show. Ever. For 4-12 year olds. Kids all laughing like drains. Parents
wetting themselves" Catherine Deveny
"I loved it so much I am
contemplating adopting more kids just so I have an excuse to go again."
Australiancomedyreview.com
"Whips the audience into a state of
pandemonium The Wiggles will never see." rhum.org.au
"Take every
child you know. If you don't know any - kidnap some." Aussie Theatre.com
"The
List Operators, cracked the kids up... always a hit with little ones."
Ripitup magazine, Adelaide
"The List Operators for kids makes me
realise I'm a 25 year old with the mind of an 8 year old. Go go go."
Mike Brown, random dude on facebook.
MORE IMPORTANTLY THE KIDS SAY:
Orla (8) "The List
Operators! The Kings of Laughter, They couldn’t get any more funny or
dafter" big-v.com
Iris (6): I loved it even though I didn’t get
to touch an alien. The only people who might not like it would be really
sensible people.
Jasper (6): This was WAY more funny than any
other shows Mum takes us to.
Violet (9): I I thought it was very
funny and good for all ages.
Indigo (12): It was so much fun.
There are so many parts of the show to remember. I couldn’t help but
laugh at all of it.
from
Australiancomedyreview.com
“Oh
my god mummy that was AWESOME!" kids quoted on rhum.org.au
Michael
(age 5) (via email) " Everything was as funny as everything else.
I
wish I could be part of your show too!"
Damian (via email) "It
was SO funny!"
"Thank-you for putting on a great show!"
Nicola
and Nina (via email)
Fresh from a cracking season at the Edinburgh Fringe come Rich and Matt, AKA 'The List Operators'. Watch this odd couple tear through an hilarious hour of surreal sketches which push at the boundaries of sense and leave you wondering if you will ever make a list in the same way again!
- “The concept is fantastic. It is new, edgy and delightfully unique.” Fringe Review (Edinburgh)
- “A- grade stuff that turns simple material into unexpected gold" – The Saturday Age.
- “This off-kilter two-man show... is one of the unexpected highlights of this year’s Fringe... brilliantly silly and funny.” Fest Magazine (Edinburgh)
Tix $18/$15/ Groups 6+ $12/ Preview $10
- Fri 12-Feb 10:45PM
- Sat 13-Feb 10:45PM
- Sun 14-Feb 10:45PM
- Tue 16-Feb 10.45PM
- Wed 17-Feb 10:45PM
- Thu 18-Feb 10:45PM
- Sat 20-Feb 10:45PM
- Sun 21-Feb 10:45PM
- Tue 23-Feb 10:45PM
- Wed 24-Feb 10:45PM
- Thu 25-Feb 10:45PM
- Fri 26-Feb 10:45PM
- Sat 27-Feb 10:45PM
- Sun 28-Feb 10:45PM
6 Shows only!
- Saturday 13 February 2010. 01:00 PM (preview)
- Sunday 14 February 2010. 01:00 PM
- Saturday 20 February 2010. 01:00 PM
- Sunday 21 February 2010. 01:00 PM
- Saturday 27 February 2010. 01:00 PM
- Sunday 28 February 2010. 01:00 PM
TICKETS HERE
http://tix.adelaidefringe.com.au/ticketing/home.aspx
AllTix $16.00
FAMILY $55.00
Rude, raucous and ridiculous. A cool show for cool kids!
A show for anyone aged 5-500 million (dinosaurs allowed). Guaranteed Not Educational!
This show is:
1. Rude
2. Gross
3. Funny
3a. Funny Looking
4. Silly
5. Spelllllchecked
6. Better than Ben 10 , it's like Ben 11!
7. Downtownwrongtown
8. Awesome!
This show is not:
1. Not funny
2. A show about fairies, pirates and princesses
3. high in fibre
3. Sensible
4. educational - 100% guaranteed
5. spelllllchecked.
“Take every child you know. If you don't know any – kidnap some.” Aussietheatre.com
"Highly Recommended" The Age, Melbourne
Winners: 'Golden Gibbo' Award Melbourne International Comedy Festival 09 and Melbourne Fringe Best Emerging Producers 08
P.S We just bought a new fart machine!
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A brand new show! Guaranteed Not Educational! 5 shows only!
This show is not:
The List Operators met performing for kids- specifically adaptations of Roald Dahl and Andy Griffiths books with Lynne Ellis at RMIT. Apart from being a List Operator Richard is also a clown doctor, Matt often |
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'I couldn't ignore the fact that the kids behind me frequently burst into giggles' - The Herald Sun.
'This is not the sort of children's theatre that talks down to kids. Quick and snappy and often funny' - The Age.
Winners
of the Golden Gibbo Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2009 and Fringe Auspicious Arts Award for Best Emerging Producer 2008.
Indeed.
Created and Performed by
Matt Kelly and Richard Higgins
The List Operators in Edinburgh!
Dates: 5-31st August
Tickets: 5-6 £5.00 7-31st £9.00/£10.00
Times: 17:30 (18:30)
Box Office: 0131 668 1633 / online www.gildedballoon.co.uk
That's right folks we are talking our lists global. We are off to try our luck at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Think of all the new things to write down, do and cross off! - YES!!! OH YES!!!!
All of the new lists to be made. Lists and lists of NEW lists to discover - list-tastic!
- What's Happening in Antwerp?
- Top 5 things to do in Amsterdam
- New and inventive ways to spell Prague (Pa rarg, Per rawge, Pa rah ga - who knows?)
- Top 5 things you thought couldn't be deep fried but the Scotish proved wrong
- Pros and Cons of Hostels.
- Hints and Tips for Travellers
- Words foriegne words that sound like swear words!
- What's Hot in Avant-Garde PerformanceArt
- WW2 and other things wrong with The French.
Fri 22nd May Opening for TRUE LIVE and PARIS WELLS at The Corner Hotel.
(we are also opening for them in Sydney and maybe bris TBC)
Fri 22nd May 7.30 Opening the EMERGING WRITERS FESTIVAL at BMW Edge
PLUS
26th May THE LAST TUESDAY SOCIETY 8pm sharp! 99 Smith St at Yah Yahs $10. It's going to be awesome!
In other news we are taking the show to the Gilded Balloon in Edinburgh in
August, which will be rather nice. Other than that we will be working
hard on our new show List Operators for kids. And our second list
operators show for adults- 'The one with no title yet'. we have some
title ideas, it's on our list.
Dates: 2-26 April
Times: Tue-Sat 9.30pm, Sun 8.30pm (60 mins)
Location: Melb Town Hall - Lunch Room
Cnr Swanston & Collins Sts, Melbourne
- Full - $18
- Concession - $15
- Group (6 or more) - $15
- Preview - $15
- Laugh Pack - $15
- Tightarse Tuesday - $13
Bookings: Ticketmaster 1300 660 013 & at the door