Finucane and Smith Unlimited

'Seductive, utterly subversive and bursting at the seams with monstrous talent”

SUNDAY AGE, MELBOURNE

STORY

Globally acclaimed for their 'salons of humanity'; provocative, entertaining, razor-sharp and visually intricate productions.

'Stunning, powerful, emotive…Like David Lynch’s ideal of vaudeville”

4ZZZ, BRISBANE

NOW SHOWING

'With their supreme artistry, they have developed a highly theatrical performance style all of their own, utterly convincing and entirely original”

MELBOURNE STAGE

PROJECTS

THE RAPTURE An explosive, electrifying genre-defying, immersive live-art salon, internationally renowned for its rigor and daring in defining & redefining of performance forms.	INTIMATE 8 Moira Finucane, the inaugural Creative Fellow of the National Gallery of Victoria, in her time-based aural immersive work. Featured: Anguish (Angoisse) (c. 1878) August Friedrich Albrecht SCHENCK. NGV	THE FLOOD The Flood. The sheep farm is now dilapidated. The farm house, dark and squalid, still sits by the river. As the sun sets, the flood waters rise.
THE EXOTIC LIVES OF LOLA MONTEZ Lola Montez was the wildest showgirl of the nineteenth century; and her 1855 Australian tour put Mick Jagger to shame.	DANCE HALL Dance Hall is a supper dance like no other! It's a place where international stars and local artists mix it up with dance tunes to die for.	GLORY BOX An explosive, electrifying genre-defying, immersive live-art salon, internationally renowned for its rigor and daring in defining & redefining of performance forms.
CARNIVAL OF MYSTERIES From the world’s pre-eminent purveyors of provocative variety and intimate spectacle comes the freakishly beautiful, seductive, surreal indoor carnival of mysteries.	DIVA DIVE Moira Finucane's intimate and inimitable salon of wild tales and cocktails. It's a diva overdose & every night Moira is joined by a diva or three.	FEAST OF ARGENTINA Commissioned by the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, The Feast brings together diva Argentina with fairground icon and gourmand KT Prescott to create a whirlwind of tales and tastes.
CARAVAN BURLESQUE The Parisian Salon of sultry songs & underdressed sirens, Bollywood love gods, circus stars, backroom ballerinas and gothic queens…	GOTHARAMA Like a pop-up picture book with a decidedly nasty streak, the bed-curtains draw back and Finucane’s thirteen gothic characters are unleashed. Mining a rich and varied vein – from bodice rippers to the supernatural	SALON DE DANSE Whirl into Finucane & Smith’s decrepit dance hall, dipped in acid green and noir black, a mesmerising physical display from a wild pack of dancers & physical artistes.
THE ALIENS Sparse, dry, humorous and disturbing 'The Aliens' turned heads from the very beginning, resulting in short listing for the Griffin Playwright Award, The HQ short story award, The Kit Denton Fellowship and won The Patrick White Playwright Award.

'Unmissable… the minds that inspired it are as sexy as the bodies that perform it…comic, erotic, dynamic, acrobatic… The Burlesque Hour is a night to remember that will retain its power to delight and disturb long after the Carnival is over'

THE AGE, MELBOURNE

'Luscious and indulgent and glorious ... riveting and
empowering and awe inspiring in its beauty. You should not miss your chance to experience a transformative and spell binding night of story telling.'

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artists

MARK MCLAUCHLAN	MR DIMAKARRI DIXON	RACHEL LEWINDON
YUMI UMIUMARE	PIERA DENNERSTEIN	SHIRLEY CATTUNAR
MAUDE DAVEY	WILLIAM EICHOLTZ	ELEANOR DIXON
MAMA ALTO	PAUL CODEIRO	WILLOW SIZER
JENNY HECTOR	BEN KEENE	CATHERINE LANE
CAROLINE LEE	ISAAC LUMMIS	DR PETA MURRAY
ROSE AGNEW	KAMAHI DJORDON KING	LILY PASKAS
YESHE MEHERETE	ROCKIE	DARRIN VERHAGEN
EUGYGEENE TEH	AZARIA UNIVERSE	JAMES WELSBY