Event

Before Us

For one night only, the internationally acclaimed master of lo-fi, off-beat, music-infused storytelling, Stuart Bowden arrives at Schkapf with his latest invention. The story of a creature, the last of an undiscovered species, facing extinction.

"Funny, endearing, sad and absurd this show is utterly compelling from start to finish." - Broadway Baby

"If you are looking for an experience to just make you smile I urge you to go and see this phenomenal one man wonder show. Performer and writer, Stuart Bowden, is an absolute genius, he has created a piece that can both crush and lift you in the blink of an eye." - Edinburgh Guide

Bowden's unique style of DIY theatre blends "live music, bizarre storytelling and perfect physical comedy" (Edinburgh Guide) with "a vulnerability that is not often seen in comedy" (Broadway Baby). BEFORE US is billed as a "contemporary casio keyboard operetta."

Bowden first won hearts with his off-beat, touchingly beautiful productions "The Beast", "The World Holds Everyone Apart", "Apart From Us", and his hilarious collaborations "Dr Brown and His Singing Tiger" and "The Lounge Room Confabulators". He has received a host of awards including the Underbelly award, as well as nominations for Best Independent Theatre Writing and Best Independent Theatre Performer (Melbourne Green Room Awards). Bowden's most recent show "She Was Probably Not A Robot" was the five star hit of last year's Edinburgh Fringe and has since played to sold out audiences in Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne.

Following in the tradition of She Was Probably Not A Robot, the show features the notes of "gorgeous melancholia" (The Scotsman) that audiences know and love from Stuart Bowden.

'Gorgeous notes of melancholia' - Scotsman

'There is one show each festival that takes your breath away. This is it.' Public Review

'Before Us is theatre and storytelling that is in a league of its own' - The New Current

'Will make you laugh, cry and ultimately change your life...Prepare to die happy.' - Edinburgh Spotlight

'Stuart Bowden has the odd charisma of Jarvis Cocker and the dance moves of Napoleon Dynamite." - Three Weeks

"A thoroughly brilliant piece of humorous theatre delivered by an equally magnificent actor" - TV Bomb