Show Back Catalogue
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On the Origin of Faeces
Join science comedian Alanta Colley for a celebration of excrement; exploring our gut feelings, what’s lurking in our bowels, how gut bacteria makes us who we are.
Everyone does it. Darwin liked to collect it. Elvis died on the toilet doing it. Gwyneth Paltrow flushes it with a coffee enema. Several million people are doing it right now. Poo brings us all together.
So, you know, wash your hands.
This is a shit show.
The show takes a bottom up approach to some scientific scat chat, as we dive into the bowels of the matter, to learn about poo horoscopes, DIY faecal transplants, and why dogs defecate on a north south axis.
So grab a stool and join us for a diarreally good time.
You Chose Poorly
A comedy experiment exploring the psychology behind all our bad decisions!
We make an infinite number of choices every day - in relationships, in finance, in Buzzfeed quizzes. But how do we make them - and why are some of them so terrible?
In their first collaboration, science comedian Alanta Colley and 'geek comedy's patron saint' Ben McKenzie will use sketch, stand-up and gentle (and highly ethical) audience participation to gather data each night and across the season to explore the psychology behind the bad decisions we all make. Join them as they dive into our psyches, paddle about in the collective subconscious, and sun themselves on the deck chairs of our hopes and fears.
Days of our Hives
My name is Alanta. I’m a beekeeper.
The main thing that you keep when you keep bees is other people away. Even my bees left, once. I guess I’m a bee loser. I think I’d quite like it if you came to hear my tale about bees, wasp heat death, and friendship. You know, if you’re in to that sort of thing.
Days of Our Hives is the tale of Alanta’s adventures and misadventures in urban beekeeping. After fleeing from a swarm in the Czech republic Alanta turned her fear into fascination and is now a proud member of Melbourne’s urban beekeeping community; removing swarms from her neighbour’s kitchen, sharing bee trivia and upsetting people by explaining honey is, in fact, bee vomit.
Days of our Hives combines stand-up, storytelling and scientific revelations about the weird and wonderful world of bees. It’s a master class in ways to cook a wasp, strategies to placate irate neighbours and what to do when you literally have a bee in your bonnet.
Parasites Lost
Parasites Lost was Alanta’s debut solo show, and sold out the entire season at the Melbourne International Comedy Fest in 2017. It has also been performed at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, the Sydney Science Festival, the Lake Macquarie Science Festival, Perth FRINGE WORLD and for the Gates Foundation in Seattle.
The story of one woman, who has contained multitudes.
You’re never alone, when you’ve got a parasite. Ten years of travelling and working in Asia and Africa, Alanta has seen a few things. And eaten a few things. And yelled her lunch into not an inconsequential number of toilets.
Alanta's job was to teach people about how to avoid diseases. In the process she contracted most of the world’s least pleasant parasites. Essentially she’s terrible at her job. Come on an adventure, across the globe and through Alanta’s intestine; and learn about some of the world’s cheekiest micro-organisms, and how Alanta contracted each of them. Not a show for the faint of heart.
Parasites Lost is equal parts scientific, entertaining and comedic. It is a pathos-addled adventure across the globe and under the microscope. Discover brain-controlling fungi, living Hollywood beauty treatments, and parasites living right under your nose. Literally, under your nose. Right now.