FRINGE ’09 & JORIAN GARDNER PRESENTS
MR FIBBY in
LITTLE GIRL LOST IN THE DEVIL’S BLACK BEARD

“Every story is a door. Every door is a story.”

After confusing and alienating audiences across Australia, from Woodford Folk Festival to Robertson Festival’s ‘Irish Music Afternoon’, the unstoppable faux-gypsy warhorse of MR FIBBY have successfully faked their passports to secure three nights in February at the COURTYARD THEATRE, as part of the 2009 Multicultural Fringe Festival.

Forged from wooden cogs and lizard grease, MR FIBBY are eighteenth century Ukraine’s musical answer to Voltron, comprising:
The noted card shark and duck smuggler ZAVI (aka Sam King) on guitar;
Renowned drag king and Rusalka SERAPHINA (aka Emma Jasmine Kelly) on violin;
Perpetual ladies man and carnival refugee BORRACIO (aka Spike Thompson), on cello;
And the highly preposterous, rambling biscuit barrel NO IMPORANT (aka Adam Hadley) their story teller.
They are also joined by the nude squid lithographs of the recently incarcerated E . R . CHAQUETTA.

LITTLE GIRL LOST IN THE DEVIL’S BLACK BEARD is a rollicking, uplifting tragedy about the deeply depressing adventures of the smallest, loneliest, ugliest girl ever to have lived as she searches for her violin, lost to a most curious black bearded man.

With influences bounding blindfolded from Gogol & Hoffman, to Poe & Piazzolla, to Mojo Juju & Mikelangelo, MR FIBBY have weaved a high speed moral free fairy tale about grief, betrayal, loss, failure, disappointment and all the finer things in life.

Little Girl Lost In The Devil’s Black Beard is a fist in the air for the unlucky, the unloved, and the ugly. It is music, it is theatre, it is neither. It is a whirling dervish of despair. And it is too late for you to turn back now.

“Every door is a story. Every story is a door.”

Little Girl Lost In The Devil’s Black Beard
Saturday 7, Sunday 8 & Monday 9 of February, 2009, 9PM
Courtyard Studio, Canberra Theatre Centre