SOLD OUT EDINBURGH FRINGE 2019
Written and performed by Wil Greenway
Music by Kathryn Langshaw
Directed by Kellie Tori
Produced by Nick James Clark
You’re stood there by the sea. You’re under the sky and over the sand. It’s sunny and salty, birds and waves. Lots of different types of blue. And something else. Just there, look, a bottle. A salt crusted glass bottle with a scroll of paper inside. Open it.
“The Ocean After All is, on the surface, about a man trapped on a desert island, a message in a bottle, and a jumbled, jogged memory that slips and slides under the audience’s feet. Underneath though, it’s about friendships that drift apart, lives lived in a daze, and a lot more betides.”
★★★★ The Stage
“And so, you’re here, you’re there, you’re everywhere. Together, you make up for lost time and without warning, an entire year passes in one hour. The narrative is almost biblical. It has the feeling of morality tale - something sacred and far-reaching. It’s funny too, deliciously so. It is easy to see why Greenway’s shows have sold-out for four years running. He is the type of human to get lost with. A natural navigator to help hold your fists against the night, knuckle to knuckle, star to star.”
★★★★ A Younger Theatre
“There are certain artists you see at the Fringe, who seem to define it so totally that the thought of not seeing them the following year is somehow unthinkable. Wil Greenway is just such an artist…The Ocean After All is another of his delightful shaggy-dog tales, a simple story about a man who drives off a jetty, lands in a boat and drifts across the ocean until he finally finds himself marooned on a tiny island with nothing but seagulls and bananas for company - except, of course, it’s not about that at all. His stories feel like richly embroiled tapestries, where what’s described in those lyrical, sumptuous lines of his aren’t necessarily what meets the eye. Somehow, he always manages to pull together the various strands of his narrative and tie them up in a gloriously satisfying bow.”
★★★★ Bouquets & Brickbats
SOLD OUT EDINBURGH FRINGE 2018
WINNER Edfest Bouquet 2018
Written and performed by Wil Greenway
Music by Kathryn Langshaw and Will Galloway
Directed by Kellie Tori
Produced by Nick James Clark
A brand new show bursting with heart and hurt and hope (that’s right, The Big Three!). Either Side of Everything is a show about that brief blip in the sprawling boundless ocean of the universe where you exist. That bit where your heart works. And your nose. And your eyes. That bit where music matters and you can smile at a smiling stranger. The brief and beautiful moment when you are alive.
“Greenway, speaking in his gentle Antipodean brogue, allows these tangential stories to unfold slowly, stuffing them full of lyrical imagery and a gentle, genial wit, pondering death, time and love throughout. Aided by Langshaw and Galloway’s beautifully harmonised backing, he creates worlds of wonder for his rapt audience.
It really is utterly transporting – a crackling campfire of a storytelling show. I’m not sure there’s a wiser wordsmith in Edinburgh.”
★★★★ The Stage
“There’s real skill in the weaving of this show, and – somehow, as always – it leaves me with a profound sense of warmth and wellbeing. There is beauty in this world, even in the misery.”
★★★★★ Bouquets & Brickbats
"An uplifting experience full of humour that’s hard to forget”
★★★★ Three Weeks
“beautiful and intriguing”
★★★★ Young Perspective
“brilliantly beautiful…an astounding tour de force”
★★★★ Fringe Feed
“Wil Greenway’s ability to entrance an audience is unparalleled”
★★★★★ Gutter Culture
SOLD OUT Edinburgh Fringe 2017
This show is about courage and cowardice. It is about the number 11 tram. It is about a cat. It is about a man named Ernie. It is about a proper Melbourne autumn storm. It is about being brave when you've been alone. It is about being together.
Written and performed by Wil Greenway
Music written and performed by Kathryn Langshaw and Will Galloway
Directed by Stuart Bowden
"This is something deeper than happiness... Greenway is a heavenly wordsmith." ★★★★★ A Younger Theatre
"Greenway was one of our best discoveries at last year's Fringe... one of the most magical acts we'd ever seen. Can he do it a second time? The answer is a resounding yes." ★★★★★ Bouquets & Brickbats
"we predicted that Wil Greenway would soon rise to the top of the comedy storytellers. After the Australian’s performances this month, he’s surely close to achieving this goal and gaining the recognition he deserves." ★★★★ WhatsOnLondon
SOLD OUT EDINBURGH FRINGE 2016
WINNER: Three Weeks Editor's Choice Award
Margaret is in hospital, counting the minutes between her contractions. I'm not far away, pushing my car as fast as it'll go. Uncle Sven is in a similar boat. His boat is a car. And his car is maybe five minutes in front of mine.
written and performed by Wil Greenway
music written and performed by Will Galloway and Kathryn Langshaw
directed by Kellie Tori
produced by Nick James Clark
“This is absolutely gorgeous storytelling with some bloody lovely songs thrown in for good measure. It’s dense and rich and fanciful and somehow still entirely grounded. I, genuinely, at the end, after laughing and thinking and feeling for an hour, had a single tear rolling down my right cheek. Not, bloody, bad.”
Daniel Kitson
“This is a real gem. Filled with warmth, wonder and poetic images that linger long in the mind’s eye, this is storytelling at its best.”
The Daily Mail (Five Picks from the Fringe)
“One of the most masterful storytellers I have ever seen… I cannot recommend seeing this show enough”
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Charlotte Thomas – Ed Fringe Review
“What a curious and delightful confection this is – one of the most original productions we’ve seen at this year’s fringe. Greenway’s dazzling words and the haunting harmonies of his musical collaborators combine to create something quite extraordinary. Word of mouth about this show is spreading fast… Our advice? Grab a ticket while you still can.”
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Bouquets & Brickbats
“Achingly beautiful…and ridiculously funny”
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Fresh Air
“Greenway elevates the art of storytelling with this lyrical, moving, funny and compassionate tale of love and tragedy...a beautiful piece of theatre”
★ ★ ★ ★ WhatsOnLondon
“This show has sold out every night so far… and rightly so”
★ ★ ★ ★ Three Weeks
“Pure, wholesome storytelling at its best… this production is a treat”
★ ★ ★ ★ Grace Calvert – Ed Fringe Review
“The packed classroom fills with warmth from the exhilarating power of this surreal love story”
★ ★ ★ ★ Fest
“Impossible not to like… envelops you like a warm hug and holds you there for hours afterwards. It’s a soulful, engrossing, nourishing hour… delivered by one of the most charming storytellers at the Fringe”
★ ★ ★ ★ The Reviews Hub
“A gripping multi-stranded adventure… storytelling at its best”
★ ★ ★ ★ Fringe Guru
“Even the most hardened of theatre-goers will be hard pressed to remain unmoved”
★ ★ ★ ★ Broadway Baby
SOLD OUT EDINBURGH FRINGE 2015
A wounded comedy about what we inherit with our blood. A show about memory, about family, and about the bits we borrow to make our own.
written and performed by Wil Greenway
music written and performed by Will Galloway and Kathryn Langshaw
directed by Kellie Tori
produced by Nick James Clark
"a beautifully earthy collection of stories that are guaranteed to grab your heartstrings tightly and reel you in for a great big hug...This is a show with a huge, beating and bloody heart."
EDITOR'S PICK
★★★★★ Ed Fringe Review
"The show is not only funny, but hugely entertaining and beautifully life affirming."
THREE WEEKS APPROVED
★★★★ Three Weeks
BEST THEATRE at FRINGE WORLD PERTH 2016 (nominee)
“Tipped from the edge of a tall building, we fell together, side by side like eggs rolled off the kitchen bench. Vincent spoke, I listened, the ground grew closer; and that story Vincent spat was awful, disgusting and really funny; I’d like to tell it to you.”
Written and performed by Wil Greenway,
Directed by Kellie Tori.
"This is simple, gentle storytelling at its best… bittersweet, hilarious and heartbreaking…a beautifully crafted, wistful piece." ★★★★★ Three Weeks
"Weirdly charming and charmingly weird...storytelling at its most intimate, its most silly and its most stunningly poetic." ★★★★ Broadway Baby
"This is one man telling an absurd and yet utterly human story. It’s full of satisfyingly dense phrases and lovely picture book images and is really very nicely performed and entirely worth seeing." Daniel Kitson
this show left footprints at
Brighton Fringe 2014
Edinburgh Fringe 2014
Brighton Comedy Festival 2014
Machynlleth Comedy Festival 2015
Det Andre Teatrert 2015
Fringe World Perth 2016
Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2016
BEST COMEDY and BEST COMEDY PERFORMER (nominee) at AUCKLAND FRINGE 2013
A low budget/hi fantasy, heavy hearted comedy about inadequacy, asteroids, and the shark that ate my arms.
written and performed by Wil Greenway
directed by Kellie Tori
In March of 2012 A Night To Dismember premiered at The Tuxedo Cat as part of the Adelaide Fringe Festival. In front of eleven people, Wil performed his first solo show - nobody died, he still considers this a raging success.
"The style is an interesting and at times hilarious collision between a flowery, slightly mouldy poetry, full of extravagantly detailed and alliterative figures, and rough colloquialisms." ★★★★ Time Out (AUS)
“Hilarious...Imagine that the dorkiest kid in your school told you the most incredible story, with the eloquence of Charles Dickens.” Three Weeks (UK)
“This play is completely original and confounding. Greenway is a talented character actor and with its black and macabre humour there’s a lot to like in this piece...I suspect we can expect great things.” Edinburgh Spotlight
this show left footprints at
Adelaide Fringe 2012
Melbourne Fringe 2012
Auckland Fringe 2013
Edinburgh Fringe 2013
Little Fest 2013
A supernatural, black comedy/melodrama. A ghost story from the frozen darkness of an Antarctic winter. Hope has fled, his companions are dead, Trapper is completely alone; isn't he?
written by Wil Greenway
directed by Kellie Torie
produced and performed by Tiprat Theatre: Luke Lennox, Kellie Tori, Kathryn Langshaw, Wil Greenway
“a delightfully absurd but sorrowfully moving piece…the unusual mix of intense drama and ridiculous folly works, and works wonderfully” ★★★★ Kryztoff RAW (AUS)
“this show brims with imagery, poetry and insights” ★★★★ Adelaide Theatre Guide (AUS)
this show wandered off to
Melbourne Fringe 2012
Adelaide Fringe 2013
SOLD OUT Melbourne Fringe 2010, Adelaide Fringe 2011 & 2012, Oslo 2014 and Fringe World Perth 2016. WINNER of THE UNDERBELLY EDINBURGH AWARD (Adelaide Fringe 2011) and THE ADELAIDE FRINGE AWARD (Melbourne Fringe 2010)
Their suitcase heaving with song and story, Anderson and Fin have survived unnameable places and unspeakable events. Devoted and destitute, The Lounge Room Confabulators are yearning to ply their trade and sing for their supper (cash).
Written and performed by Stuart Bowden and Wil Greenway
"funny, touching, macabre and ridiculous" ★★★★ The Arts Desk (UK)
"magical" ★★★★ The List (UK)
"maters of their craft" ★★★★ Metro (UK)
“Awesomely talented...It’s as dazzling a piece of theatre as you could hope to find in this town.” ★★★★ The Herald Sun (AUS)
This show has left footprints at:
Melbourne Fringe 2010
Adelaide Fringe 2011
Edinburgh Fringe 2011
Adelaide Fringe 2012
Little Fest 2013
Det Andre Teatret 2014
Fringe World Perth 2016
The world is dead. Humanity is done. We are the survivors. Your house is the last remaining refuge, gather your friends and wait for us there (bring snacks). A brand new show from The Lounge Room Confabulators (Australia’s second favourite home-entertainment system).
SOLD OUT FRINGE WORLD PERTH 2017
SOLD OUT MELBOURNE FRINGE 2017
Written and performed by Stuart Bowden and Wil Greenway
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