Alison Goes to Aldi for her Aunt / Notes from the Moonee Pond Canal
Director: Fred Pryce
Alison Goes to Aldi for her Aunt
“What are my symptoms? Aches and pains. A general sense of unease. Despair.”
Alison is feeling sick. She’s sick of working at ALDI, with its harsh fluorescent lights and overbearing managers. She’s sick of her Aunt, with her strange and slightly terrifying demands. She’s sick of doing anything at all, really. But the more she tries to fight the system, the more she seems drawn into the surreal and all-encompassing clutches of ALDI...
'Alison Goes to ALDI for Her Aunt' is a bold and ambitious new work by VCA playwriting graduate Fred Pryce. Exploring issues like mental illness and our broken unemployment system with both humour and horror, this play will immerse you in the uniquely bent world inside Alison’s head.
Notes from the Moonee Pond Canal
"They’re symbols. They mean something. Something real."
Step behind the desk of a would-be Melbourne revolutionary in this bold and funny new play by VCA playwriting graduate Fred Pryce.
Inspired by Dostoevsky, 'Notes from the Moonee Ponds Canal' is a headfirst dive into the Internet-driven paranoia and the conspiratorial nature of our unique times. Alienated from society, an angry young man decides to push back against society's lies. The problem is, he doesn't really know where to begin. Haunted by high school reunions and dreaming of the apocalypse, he begins to piece together a whole new religion...
Incels, cultists, conspiracy theorists and cryptocurrency enthusiasts - all will be skewered in this strange and razor-sharp satire.