Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Going PUNting
Monday, February 1, 2010
POLAR BEARINGS - NOW ON FACEBOOK!
Sunday, January 31, 2010
MAN OVERBOARD!
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Lonely
Monday, October 19, 2009
Who Are We?
The Polar Bearings are a new independent comedy trio from Melbourne. Stuart Bowden, Margaret Paul and Tim Ross have been working together as actors, writers and musicians since 2004.
In 2010, they aim to be the first musical comedy trio to sail around the world. But playing the ukulele is hard in a life jacket.
This year, Margaret and Stuart worked as writer/performers in 'Hark!' as part of the Edinburgh International Festival. The Scotsman described it as "superb."
Stuart toured Australia in 2008 with Bell Shakespeare Company’s ‘Actors At Work’ program. He also performed in Hayloft Theatre’s ‘Yuri Wells,’ in the 2009 Melbourne Fringe Festival, which won the Adelaide Fringe Festival award.
Margaret is a regular contributor to The Age, and has written a thesis on the philosophy of comedy. She also co-wrote and performed in ‘Got Viking? A Musical Misadventure with Horns,’ which sold out in the 2005 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Tim performed stand-up around Adelaide for several years, before moving to Melbourne to study acting at the Victorian College of the Arts. Since graduating, Tim has performed for short film, theatre and television, including Channel 10’s Rush and Neighbours.
‘Songs in the Sea, Major?’ is the maiden voyage for the Polar Bearings. Stay tuned for dates for Adelaide Fringe Festival and Melbourne International Comedy Festival, 2010.Buoy Meets Girl
Some will pour out what's left of their lives in a thin trickle of poisoned blood under a bridge, in a squat, or perhaps in some back street when they overdose on smack, or speed, or what ever household chemical their dealer used to cut that final shot. Some will be murdered by their partners. A few by strangers. Some young girls will starve themselves to death. Some young men will die of the utterfoolishness that characterises their gender at that age. And some, too many, will succumb to the creeping void and take their own lives.
The vast majority of teenagers, of course, will see out the next eight months as they saw off the last eight – in a pointless round of sullen, hormone choked hissy fits, dark moods, vertiginous upswingsand long periods of eye glazing boredom. Perhaps they'll get in a little bit of binge drinking at one of those booze fueled shag bracelet parties the tabloids are so worried about."
When I was 16, I had a drag of a friend's cigarette. Once. Ooh, the risk!
Jessica Watson is attempting to become the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world. As the 16 year-old makes her way towards New Zealand, she told her blog she's enjoying the freedom.
"No deadlines, nothing to rush off to, I can eat whatever I like whenever I like, no one to send me off to bed!"
Is this freedom?
More here:
http://www.youngestround.blogspot.com/
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Cabin Fever
"Go you Legend! You prove 'em who's the Boss! Rock on Deano"
More pictures here: http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/gallery/0,23816,5060257-17382-4,00.html