I know there’s a lot of noise outside but you have to close your eyes

Katie and Imogen are BFF’s. BFF’s 4 EVA. Nothing can tear them apart. Nothing. Nuh. No way. Not vodka raspberry’s. Not the yarra river. Not Sportsgirl. Not Feminism. No way. BFF. F and F and F.
Two childhood friends with nothing left in common strive to connect. A haunting insight into the bleak underbelly of female friendships, I Know There’s A Lot Of Noise Outside But You Have To Close Your Eyes is an explosive exploration of femininity, prejudice and rage. With cocktails.

★★★★1/2/THE AGE "Poetical and political, they expand the realm of theatrical possibility... Funny, bold and dangerously alive."

★★★★1/2/ARTSHUB "A scintillating show that should not be missed. An incredible fusion of wit and psychological horror."

★★★★/SYDNEY MORNING HERALD "A cathartic evisceration of contemporary female stereotypes and expectations… sparkles with black humour and gleeful profanity… McCarthy and Dawson are terrific performers, sharp, alive and aware."

TIMEOUT "I love their unabashed addiction to verbal poetry on anger and dissatisfaction... There is a terrific clarity."

SOMETIMES MELBOURNE "Beautiful, sad, deeply personal, Confronting and intimate... This work grabbed me by the heart." 

THE MUSIC "A 50-minute, two-hand Gen Y feminist intervention in our culture's legacy of prescribing a simplified and psychologically inhumane gender role to women… a haywire, scatter-bombing first step towards a language undictated by patriarchal notions of sense."

Written by Zoey Dawson, Anna McCarthy and Allison Wiltshire 
Performed by Zoey Dawson and Anna McCarthy
Directed by Allison Wiltshire
Produced by Bek Berger 
Sound design by Claudio Tocco
Set and costume design by Eugyeene Teh 
Lighting design by Katie Sfetkidis  
Outside eye Rinske Ginsberg
Photography by Eugyeene Teh 

Previous Presentations

Presented by I’m Trying To Kiss You as part of the 2011 Melbourne Fringe Festival. 

138 Greeves St, Fitzroy

September, 2011   

2011 Credits:

Written by Zoey Dawson, Anna McCarthy and Allison Wiltshire 
Performed by Zoey Dawson and Anna McCarthy
Directed by Allison Wiltshire
Sound design by Claudio Tocco
Set design by Brooke Babbington
Lighting design by Kim Zoe Evans 

2011 Greenroom Nominee

Claudio Tocco, Sound Design