The Freak and the Showgirl
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13/10/2020
Have a squizz with your ears ... https://open.spotify.com/episode/0t4IxVaXTE2gwOlWyMp60I?si=g-P3hby2R_yCjnLTiy90bA
Julie Atlas Muz & Mat Fraser - The Bump 'n Grind with Angie Pontani This week on The Bump n’ Grind, Angie chats with the legendary Julie Atlas Muz and Mat Fraser This incredible power couple spills the beans on bringing pantomime to NYC, their beginnings in burlesque, the horrors of fame, and how to literally kill it in a showbiz marriage!
03/10/2020
Get your cocktail shaker out and get on it ... at HOME!
14/09/2020
BBC America to Premiere ‘CripTales’ in October (EXCLUSIVE) BBC America is set to premiere “CripTales,” a collection of short films from creatives with disabilities, on Oct. 1 at 10 p.m., Variety has learned exclusively. For National Disability …
21/07/2020
Mat Fraser: 'I’m hardcore – I want equality and I’m not going to stop' The American Horror Story star is backing a plan by Graeae to put deaf and disabled artists centre-stage around the UK
20/05/2017
Channel 4 ... don't mind if I do ... https://www.channel4.com/news/mat-fraser-on-playing-richard-iii-shakespeares-disabled-anti-hero
Mat Fraser on playing Richard III, Shakespeare’s disabled anti-hero Oh to play the king, especially one this awful or misunderstood. Sir Ian McKellen, Kevin Spacey and Mark Rylance have all been Richard III. Now Mat Fraser is the latest to join this distinguished list. Not so famous, perhaps, but he does have something the others don't: a physical disability.…
11/05/2017
Richard III review – Mat Fraser proves a brilliant villain for Northern Broadsides Swerving between charm and disgust in a dark, disturbing production, Fraser creates a sense of a man bitterly aware that he will never fit in
09/05/2017
Mat Fraser on playing Richard III: 'I'd begun to feel like yesterday's cripple' He’s staged Thalidomide! A Musical, stormed American TV and starred in an explicit fairytale with his wife. Now, Mat Fraser is raising hell as Shakespeare’s royal villain – without the hump
30/04/2017
Richard III: "A disabled guy gets cast as the disabled guy", Ouch: Disability Talk - BBC Radio A colourful conversation with Mat Fraser who's about to play Shakespeare's king in Hull
12/04/2017
Mat Fraser in a doco on Aussie ABC2 9pm tonite! Enjoy! http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/adam-pearson-freak-show/MP1714H196C00DS1
ABC iview : Trailer: Adam Pearson: Freak Show - 9:05pm Wed 12 Apr ABC2 Documentary in which actor and presenter Adam Pearson explores the world of freak shows and meets people who use their medical conditions to educate, entertain and make money.
25/01/2017
F-F-FINALLY!! http://bit.ly/ONEOFUStube
ONEOFUS, my and Julie Atlas Muz's art cell have our own You Tube page! Would love you to have a look around, it's got performance footage of work we've done, songs, shows, strips etc ... and EXCITING news from The Spazms coming soon! Oneofus
ONEOFUS We are outsiders. With inclusivity at the heart of what we do, we traverse the world as radical artists looking for alternative ways to be inside. The main t...
06/12/2016
'Beauty and the Beast,' laughing through their own story Review: "Beauty and the Beast" at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art Stage mixes the title story and a frank discussion of s*x and disability. (3.5 stars)
03/12/2016
In Chicago now! http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/ct-beauty-beast-mca-jones-1125-20161122-column.html
This 'Beauty and the Beast' is about s*x and disabilities, for adults only 'Beauty and the Beast' at the MCA is an adults-only version of the fable by Mat Fraser and Julie Atlas Muz that explores s*x and disability.
31/07/2015
CRIPFEST: DID YOU COME???!
CRIPFEST! (with images, tweets) · usaBritish ONEOFUS PRESENTED A DAY LONG FESTIVAL CELEBRATING DISABLED ARTISTS ON THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT (ADA). SATURDAY JULY 25TH AT BAM FISHER. SUPPORTED BY THE BRITISH COUNCIL.
The Freak and the Showgirl
After a massively successful & 100% sold out time at the Amsterdam fringe, there followed an Australian tour, picking up more sold out audiences, fringe awards, and of course lots of shocked and traumatised members of the public , now The Freak and the Showgirl (UK/USA) comes to Coney Island's "Sideshows by the Seashore", perhaps its spiritual home, for one night only, on Friday August the 22nd, @ 10pm, for just $15 entrance fee, you'll get to see the show that caused outrage, artrage, tears, beers, laughs, baths, and lots of moistness and stiffening.
“wave after wave of shock, horror and body parts too numerous and outrageous to mention”
“gobsmacking! ****" The Scotsman
Sexy, offensive, funny as hell, Mat Fraser (natural born freak, UK) and Julie Atlas Muz (Miss Exotic World 2006, USA) present an outrageous burlesque cabaret spectacular of magic tricks, song, dance and st******se. Leave your political correctness at the door as these two challenge thoughts on disability, nudity, freaks, showgirls, and S*X.
09/07/2015
Look out NEW YORK ... CRIPFEST!!
CRIPFEST "Over the last 25 years since the ADA was passed, while non disabled actors and writers get numerous awards for appropriating portrayals of disability on screen and on stage, on gallery walls and in performance spaces, I’ve watched disabled performers and artists struggle for recognition. Too often…
05/04/2015
Happy Easter to all you Freaks & the Showgirls out there. The Rabbit brought us 2 conjoined yolks and some goldenized colourful eggs
28/03/2015
PLEASE don't TRASH your GREAT BARRIER REEF!!!!! # # #
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22/03/2015
Warming up for the workshop at Bottoms Up!!
22/03/2015
Last of the tour merch!!! Tea towels, pillow cases, postcards, photos!!! Come get some at tonight's show at The Melba Spiegeltent! Xx
Last show in MELBOURNE TONIGHT!!! Online tix sales have close, but we have tix for sale at the door tonight at The Melba Spiegeltent. But before that ... we have our "INSTANT CABARET" workshop at Bottoms Up! Burlesque and Pole School this afternoon from 12pm!! See you there!!! xoxoxox
21/03/2015
8pm tonight and tomorrow ! Last ever shows of this type # # # http://media.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-about/freaky-fun-with-a-healthy-dose-of-s*x-6362906.html
Freaky fun with a healthy dose of s*x The Freak and the Showgirl duo Mat Fraser and Julie Atlas Muz bring their raunchy act to the Spiegeltent to poke fun (and other body parts) at the 'absurdity of normality', and honour friend and disability advocate Stella Young.
Final 2 Australian shows!!! 8pm tonight and tomorrow night at Melba Spiegeltent (next door to The Tote, Johnston St, Collingwood). Tix available at the door or online until 4pm each day.
19/03/2015
Thanks so much Carly!! # # # # # http://carlyfindlay.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/the-time-mat-fraser-from-american.html
Tune into Radio Carly: The time Mat Fraser from American Horror Story slapped my arse. Thank you for reading my blog. I love receiving comments :)I really appreciate the time you've taken to write to me, and to share something about yourself.
19/03/2015
a Freak, a Gypsy, a Showgirl and a Lord walk into a bar .... can you guess where they are? first correct answer wins a double ticket to Lords of Strut at 8pm The Melba Spiegeltent tonight!!
stop press: Due to unforeseen circumstances we have had to cancel tonight and tomorrow's shows. Lords Of Strut are still on, and we will be doing our show again on Saturday and Sunday 8pm, the last two ever of this format! Tickets can be exchanged for these nights if you have already bought tix. Sorry, but that's showbiz xx
19/03/2015
from The Age - theage.com.au
American Horror Story: Freak Show star Mat Fraser to honour Stella Young Husband-and-wife act will hail their deceased friend, a former Melbourne journalist, comedian and disability advocate.
18/03/2015
From THE AGE in Melbourne ... opening night tonight!!! Some tix available at the door!!
Freaky fun with a healthy dose of s*x The Freak and the Showgirl duo Mat Fraser and Julie Atlas Muz bring their raunchy act to the Spiegeltent to poke fun (and other body parts) at the 'absurdity of normality', and honour friend and disability advocate Stella Young.
17/03/2015
On PBS 106.7FM right now Melbourne!!
17/03/2015
Never too early for sequins!!! Doing interview with The Age at the beautiful spiegeltent ...
GOOD MORNING MELBOURNE!!!!!