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Brisbane boys behave badly in rock’n’roll comedy

A new play for anyone who's ever been let down by their favourite band, or their best friends.

5 Aug 2014

Richard Watts

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You don’t have to look far to uncover stories of rock stars’ bad behaviour. From the ’60s excesses of Keith Moon and Keith Richards through to more recent examples of the dangers of living large, including Oasis, Pete Doherty, and the late Amy Winehouse, the annals of popular music are rife with stories of sex, drugs, more drugs, and rock’n’roll.

For their latest collaboration, Brisbane writers David Burton and Claire Christian have tapped into this fertile and febrile history to write a comic account of boys behaving badly: Hedonism’s Second Album.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts