A Brief Episode by Ash Flanders, 2024, Melbourne Fringe

A Brief Episode invites you to take a comic journey of mythic proportions. From the team that brought you the critically acclaimed 'End Of.' comes an all new singular show about the dangers of your dreams (possibly) coming true.

Join our nameless protagonist (it's Ash) as he attempts the impossible – to find a place on Aussie TV for a mouthy middle-aged homosexual with too many opinions. Naturally, this quest takes him to Greece, birthplace of the Hero's Journey, where instead of finding structure... he loses it entirely.

What emerges is a vivid, surreal and surprising 65-minute true story about wild dogs, moustaches, runaway Americans, hospitable Albanians, vapid Australians, pornographers, widows, hawks, hikers, hairdressers, slums, gangs, generous mothers and selfish little children.

As our hero is pulled between life and death, order and anarchy, fight or flight, you'll begin to wonder how any of us can face the outside world – or worse, ourselves.

Writer and Performer: Ash Flanders

Director: Stephen Nicolazzo

Set and Costume Design: Nathan Burmeister

Lighting Design: Katie Sfetkidis

Sound Design: Jason Sweeney

★★★★ “"Ash Flanders loves the drama. An energetic monologue that folds in unbridled artistic passion, monstrous self doubt spiked with dopamine hits of unbound self-assurance...Sassily snappy...uproariously funny...a brilliant show" Stephen A Russell, Time Out