I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF NOISE OUTSIDE BUT YOU HAVE TO CLOSE YOUR EYES

 i'm trying to kiss you

PRESENTED BY LAMAMA AND NIDA INDEPENDENT

APRIL/MAY 2013

Written by Zoey Dawson, Anna McCarthy and Allison Wiltshire 

Performed by Zoey Dawson and Anna McCarthy

Directed by Allison Wiltshire

Produced by Bek Berger 

Sound design by Claudio Tocco

Set and costume design by Eugyeene Teh 

Lighting design by Katie Sfetkidis  

Outside eye Rinske Ginsberg

Photography by Eugyeene Teh 

Katie and Imogen are BFF’s. BFF’s 4 EVA. Nothing can tear them apart. Nothing. Nuh. No way. Not vodka raspberry’s. Not the yarra river. Not Sportsgirl. Not Feminism. No way. BFF. F and F and F.
Two childhood friends with nothing left in common strive to connect. A haunting insight into the bleak underbelly of female friendships, I Know There’s A Lot Of Noise Outside But You Have To Close Your Eyes is an explosive exploration of femininity, prejudice and rage. With cocktails.

★★★★1/2/THE AGE "Poetical and political, they expand the realm of theatrical possibility... Funny, bold and dangerously alive."

★★★★1/2/ARTSHUB "A scintillating show that should not be missed. An incredible fusion of wit and psychological horror."

★★★★/SYDNEY MORNING HERALD "A cathartic evisceration of contemporary female stereotypes and expectations… sparkles with black humour and gleeful profanity… McCarthy and Dawson are terrific performers, sharp, alive and aware."

TIMEOUT "I love their unabashed addiction to verbal poetry on anger and dissatisfaction... There is a terrific clarity."

SOMETIMES MELBOURNE "Beautiful, sad, deeply personal, Confronting and intimate... This work grabbed me by the heart." 

THE MUSIC "A 50-minute, two-hand Gen Y feminist intervention in our culture's legacy of prescribing a simplified and psychologically inhumane gender role to women… a haywire, scatter-bombing first step towards a language undictated by patriarchal notions of sense."

Previous Presentations

Presented by I’m Trying To Kiss You                                     

as part of the 2011 Melbourne Fringe Festival. 

138 Greeves St, Fitzroy

September, 2011   

2011 Credits:

Written by Zoey Dawson, Anna McCarthy and Allison Wiltshire 

Performed by Zoey Dawson and Anna McCarthy

Directed by Allison Wiltshire

Sound design by Claudio Tocco

Set design by Brooke Babbington

Lighting design by Kim Zoe Evans 

2011 Greenroom Nominee

Claudio Tocco, Sound Design