Catch the Batch.

Hatched, Matched and Dispatched by Griffin Theatre, Batch Festival is a three-week fiesta of the freshest, edgiest and most inventive new shows in Sydney. An exciting crop of storytellers, poets, comedy artists and non-traditional performance makers from across the country will take over the iconic Stables stage.

Opening the latch on Batch is quick drawl pun slinger, rapper, poet and lyrical powerhouse Omar Musa, mashing poems, live music and stories together to confront the dark realities of Australian culture in a sixty minute stunner, SINCE ALI DIED.

The Ali of the title is none other than Muhammad Ali, who became a role model in Omar Musa’s childhood after suffering racial and religious bullying at school. With songs from his hip hop album of the same name, Musa floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee with this angry and anguished show tempered with larrikin bonhomie.

Another fine catch for Batch is trans-gender comedian, Cassie Workman’s GIANTESS, a guise and droll fable interweaving music, comedy, storytelling and illustration. Cassie’s one-person-show explores the anguish of coming to terms with a gender identity that doesn’t match your body. Deadpan and dead funny, GIANTESS is large on laughs and transfixingly entertaining..
BATCH FESTIVAL

11 – 28 APRIL 2018

The shows
Since Ali Diedby Omar Musa
Cassie Workman, Giantessby Cassie Workman
Club Mamaby Mama Alto
Unspoken Wordswith Candy Royalle, Lizzy Jarrett & Saba Vasefi
Asian Ghost-ery StorebyShannan Lim & Vidya Rajan
Blueberry Playby Ang Collins
Griffin Up LatewithJarryd Jekyll,Eddie Sharp,Phil Spencer &Matilda Abraham
Letters to Johnby Tasnim Hossain
The Lonely Spirits Variety Hourby Nitin Vengurlekar
Brown Skin Girlby Black Birds
Era of New Paradiseby Adriane Daff
Exclusion Zone: A Walking Tourby Caleb Lewis
Onstage Datingby Bron Batten
Love and Angerby Betty Grumble
Glimpseby Jonathan Hindmarsh & Scarlet McGlynn
You Must Come Alone to Read the Last Book on Earthby Georgia Symons