Fringe Fever: We catch up with the wonderful Wau Wau Sisters (Melbourne Fringe)

A Quick Chat With The Wau Wau Sisters…

 1.     What three words best describe you Fringe show? Sexy, smart, hilarious.
2.     Who does your show speak to? Your inner aliens and angels!!
3.     What other Fringe show will you NOT miss? WE hope to see all of them.
4.     What other Fringe show do you wish you were in? All of them:)
5.     What do you love most about the Melbourne Fringe? That it’s in Melbourne.
6.     How many Melbourne Fringes have you performed in? We are VIRGINS!
7.     If you could invite anyone to see your show (and you know they would come), who would it be? Pee Wee Herman?
8.     What is the best theatre advice you’ve received?  Necessity is the mother of invention!
9.     What was your most embarrassing moment on stage? No such thing!

10.  Do you have any pre- or post-show rituals? Bubbles and more bubbles!!
11.  What’s your favourite theatre superstition? Do you believe it? Bad dress rehearsal = great show. Absolutely.
12.  What was the last book you read? Patty Smith’s book Just Kids.
13.  What TV show do you never miss? We kind of never miss a chance to do anything else. There’s some pretty brilliant TV out there these days, but we don’t watch it much. 
14.  What film will you watch again and again? Here’s a few: Waiting for Guffman, Dr. Strangelove, Wings of Desire, Blonde Ambition (the hysterical porn movie, not a doc about Madge. It’s about showgirl sisters who are a bit twisted and confused and it has big pornographic dance numbers! It sort of has to be seen to be believed!)
15.  Who will hate your Fringe show? No one that we can think of, but maybe some crusty old closed-minded yucky bigot with a twisty up face, corns on his or her feet, a preference for bland food and staying in 23 nights in in a row believing idiot news programs, who wouldn’t know a good time if it was naked, singing dirty songs and serving them free wine? But we know there’s no one like that in Melbourne!
16.  What was your first time on stage? We both made stages of our own at our respective homes and neighbourhoods and that was pretty young for both of us – like around 5 years old. We also both thought running on stage naked for a laugh was funny that long ago! Tanya was an amazing flying Tinkerbell through a Peter Pan production as a tiny little girl, thus foreshadowing her life-long love for being in the air. I had to do a ballet with a giant shark head made out of chicken wire that I couldn’t see through. I also couldn’t do ballet.
17.  What is the first theatre show you remember seeing? H.M.S. Pinafore
18.  What director/actor/writer would you just die to work with? Hmmm, Tina Fey or Amy Sedaris or Lily Tomlin or Carol Channing or Beckett or Bretcht!
19.  What is your favourite theatre space in Melbourne? I’m pretty sure it’s The G. H. Hotel! And, of course, we love the Spiegeltent and the folks at The Victoria Arts Centre.
20.  Where in Melbourne do you always take visitors? To see the bats feed at sun down or to Handsome Steve’s bar at the Convent.
21.  How do you have your coffee? Sweet and creamy.
22.  What’s the best pizza topping? Pineapple.
23.  What do love most about your Fringe show? How much fun the audience has  with us and we have with them and that we get free booze on the tech rider, because it’s props ‘for the show’!
You can read old AussieTheatre reviews of director the Wau Wau sisters at Anne-Marie’s blog sometimesmelbourne.blogspot.com