I asked The Toff In Town if they thought in axle-grinders, alcohol and sketchpaper were a good combination...

THEY SAID YES!!!

But... not a safe combination. And so instead Art Monkeys, you'll just have to accept a sword balancing, puppetmaking, death-defying Scallywag on our stage this month! How terrible.. ?

Our muse for July showcases the diversity that Melbourne holds, Little Laa Laa is a red-headed ragamuffin who serves up a perplexing platter indeed. Blending acts of absurdity with feats of death-defying lunacy, mind-boggling buffoonery and a wee little splash of salacious scalwaggery. You will squeal and squirm as this mischievous little mime and her delightfully dark, vaudevillian antics play out in front of your very eyes.

Little Laa Laa is tap-dancing clown and side-show scallywag, Gemma Lark . Born the bastard son of an alchemist and spent the first 10 years of her life surviving on a diet of split peas and cigarettes. At the age of 14 she was married to a travelling salesman who kept her in the glove box of his 1967 Ford Falcon, though when she failed to produce him with an heir he sold her to a troupe of wandering minstrels for the price of four bags of oats and an arthritic goat. She considered this to be a reasonable exchange.By the age of 16 Lark had developed a nervous twitch, a whiskey dependency and an impressive collection of facial scars. By 20 she had lost touch with reality entirely and by 25 she was shamelessly lying in her biographies.

Don't forget your sketch pad and pencils!

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WHEN Sunday July 27 WHERE - The Toff in Town Doors open 3.30. Session 4.00 - 6.00pm