Affluenza
Theatre
January 22 - February 8, 2015
The Butterfly Club , 5 Carson Place
Melbourne, VIC
Website: https://midsumma.org.au/event/affluenza
Description
'Highly entertaining... a stunning voice'Theatre Press
'Hannagan's writing is superb'
Arts Hub
'Leaves you in awe'
Broadway World
In Affluenza Will Hannagan transforms from kale-crunching North Fitzroy twat to Hollywood golden boy gone bad. He's LiLo meets Miley, only gayer: a drug-addled clubkid on the road to redemption after a vacuous life of excess. A Disney child star, a pin-up of Uncle Sam's, corrupted by the Pop machine. In one tell-all interview, Robert Ten Eyk, Footscray's finest turned hard hitting talk show host to the stars, questions him on the fame, the abuse, the scandal and finally, the redemption. But while Will is just trying to win back some public kudos and promote his new album, Affluenza (an ode to decadence and decay), Robbie's sole object is great television. No matter what the cost.
Will has been writing cabaret since he was fourteen. Playful, political, promiscuous, at its core his work is an interrogation of contemporary ideological divide masked in the escapist sensation of intoxicating pop spectacle.
Affluenza is presented as part of the 2015 Midsumma Festival