Day 1 in Brisbane - 'Miss Take's French Farce!'

Monique Lavail’s Miss Take’s French Farce is a one person clown-show, incorporating mask, mime and puppetry to portray Miss Take’s romantic entanglements, confusion, and conflicted relationship with lover and doctor. Lavail’s showing emphasised the interactive dimension of Miss Take’s French Farce, and the mask techniques learned at the Lecoq school.

In the feedback discussion, facilitated by Bernadette Cochrane, Monique the opportunity to see the spectators opinion in relation a range of factors in the developing piece, including the mix of European and Australian cultures, the ‘adultness’ of the performance, the impact of role switching throughout the performance, and the style of the soundtrack.