Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Thursday 07 April
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
There are two session times available for this workshop: 11am-12pm and 2pm-3pm. You will be prompted to select your session when booking your tickets.
Sensible young people: turn away now. This event is not for you. Australia’s silliest kids’ comedians, the Listies, are coming to the Wheeler Centre for an event that’s rated ‘S’ for ‘stupid’.
At this riotous school holiday workshop, the Listies will introduce kids aged six to ten to their new literary masterwork, Ickypedia: A Dictionary of Disgusting New Words. What are the definitions of ‘spewtiful’, ‘alphaburp’ and ‘zinkelgritting’? The Listies will present answers to these perplexing questions. Next, the audience will coin their own nonsense neologisms, engage in some idle zoodling (drawing animals that don’t exist) and pen disgusting pooetry.
Expect terrible toilet humour, bizarre flights of fancy and LOLs audible from Lapland.
Featuring
The Listies
Writing and performing comedy for kids and their adults (kidults), the Listies are Melbourne-based duo Rich Higgins and Matt Kelly. Originally meeting each other during a production of Roald Dahl's The Twits (Rich was Mr Twit, Matt was Mrs Twit) they enjoyed performing together so much they decided to take the logical next step – purchase an inflatable unicorn costume and make a show for Melbourne Fringe.
Since then, they've made seven live productions, two CDs and a book, Ickypedia: A Dictionary of Disgusting New Words, published by Penguin. Their first children's show, More Fun than a Wii, was the first show for kids to be nominated for the best show award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2010.
The Listies have toured all over the country and internationally, with seasons in South Korea, Malaysia, Ireland, Scotland, England and New Zealand. They are currently working on a show for Sydney Theatre Company called Hamlet: Prince of Skidmark (with Declan Greene), and have a column in the Big Issue.