Live Music + Live Art
I Wanna Be a Musician
SAT 21 SEP +
SUN 22 SEP
18-21
SEP 2025
Comedy
+
Live Art
Onstage Dating
- 20 Sep 2024 | 8:15pm - 9:15pm
- 21 Sep 2024 | 8:15pm - 9:15pm
- $35 - General Admission
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Little Devil Tent
Prince's Square, Elizabeth St
Launceston TAS 7250
Bron Batten is going on first dates. Live on stage!
Watch from the safety of your seat or volunteer to be a part of the action as Bron takes modern romance to the next level – all in front of the audience! You could bear witness to the blossom of true love – or watch it crash and burn in front of your very eyes.
Developed whilst she was in residence in Paris, London and Lithuania, Bron went on over 60 online dates as part of her ‘research’, determined to get to the heart of the internet. This is the result.
Featuring a different person each night, this hilarious, award-winning and sell-out show has toured all over Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Europe, thrilling audiences with its unique insight into the world of dating.
In the age of Tinder and the online dating app, you can witness the thrill and heartbreak of modern dating up close and personal, as Bron facilitates, interrogates and gleefully destroys the rituals of contemporary romance.
Age Suitability
Suitable for 14+
Coarse language and mild nudity
Accessibility
- Step-Free Mobility-Aid Access
- Unreserved seating - space available for those using a wheelchair
★★★★ “Heartbreakingly vulnerable, honest and hilarious… Not to be missed” Three Weeks, UK
★★★★★ “Sexy, warm and fittingly awkward, the audience are putty in Bron Batten’s hands and she handles us with care and generosity. Funny, clever and intimate – a must see” Fringe Biscuit UK
“Onstage Dating is one of the cleverest, funniest, and most shockingly incredulous experiences of risk I’ve ever seen in a theatre… It is smart as hell, shocking, hilarious, incredibly well-made, awkward and delicious” The Plus Ones Wellington, NZ
WINNER: ADELAIDE FRINGE TOURING AWARD, MELBOURNE FRINGE 2016
NOMINATED: BEST PERFORMER + INNOVATION IN AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION, GREEN ROOM AWARDS 2017
NOMINATED: OUTSTANDING PERFORMER, NEW ZEALAND FRINGE FESTIVAL 2017
About Bron Batten
Bron Batten is a multi-award-winning performer, theatre-maker and producer who creates contemporary performance in collaboration with non-artists and audience members. Her work is based in live art practices of participation, improvisation and direct address in order to create a live, vibrant and unique energetic exchange with the audience.
Past works and projects include Waterloo (2019); Onstage Dating (2016); Use Your Illusion (2014); The Dad Show (2014); Sweet Child of Mine (2011) and The Last Tuesday Society (2008). She was the lead producer and artist on the interactive installation The Hole (2015) in collaboration with artists from across Australia and Canada.
Her work has toured throughout Australia, New Zealand, the USA, France, the UK, Germany, the Czech Republic, Lithuania and Romania and has been presented at venues and festivals such as The Soho Theatre London, Komedia Brighton UK, The Prague Quadrennial, Performing Arts Festival Berlin, RISING, Darwin Festival, Brisbane Festival, The Melbourne Theatre Company, The Malthouse Theatre, Dark MOFO and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
She has received Australia Council support and fellowships from the Ian Potter Foundation to undertake professional development in Zurich, New York, Chicago, Avignon, London, Glasgow and Hong Kong and in 2015 Bron was an artist in residence at the Cite des Arts Internationale in Paris.
Most recently, Bron has been an instrumental contributor and performer in major festival works OH DEER! by APHIDS and Multiple Bad Things by Back to Back Theatre.
