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Speaker 1: You can catch the Fringe show brief Sturdy Laundry from

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Speaker 1: this Friday until February four. Tickets are through fringeworld dot

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Speaker 1: com dot au. Dale Woodbridge Brown is joining us good.

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Speaker 2: Morning, Morning now Dale.

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Speaker 1: Briefs has always been one of the most popular shows

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Speaker 1: at Fringe, But for the uninitiated, tell us what it's about.

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Speaker 3: So, Briefs is a circus dragon burlesque show that was

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Speaker 3: put together in Brisbane a quite a few years ago

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Speaker 3: by Fez and Mark, our fearless leaders. Yeah, and it's

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Speaker 3: kind of a celebration of individuality and silliness and high

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Speaker 3: skill and very very good drag awesome the show kind

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Speaker 3: of it consists of like a bunch of drag acts

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Speaker 3: and then also group acts, and we also have a

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Speaker 3: lot of really really stupid moments that you just kind

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Speaker 3: of look at and go, what just happened?

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Speaker 2: But it is all pure.

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Speaker 3: Entertainment and we do kind of poke out a little

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Speaker 3: bit of political fun here and there.

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Speaker 4: That's what you want at friends, You want to say

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Speaker 4: what just happened?

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Speaker 2: What did I just see?

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Speaker 5: On a regular mess?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, and you must find yourself when you're out there

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Speaker 5: vibing off the crowd. Because the crowd go to friends

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Speaker 5: shows for fun.

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Speaker 2: Yeah totally.

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Speaker 3: Energy starts straight from as soon as the audience walks in.

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Speaker 3: We're out there in like dressing gown, oh, talking to

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Speaker 3: people and selling our beautiful raffle tickets. You don't want

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Speaker 3: to miss out on.

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Speaker 2: The raffle prize. The prize is beautiful. Okay, that's all

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Speaker 2: I can say for nice book.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 1: I think the three things that go together perfectly a circus,

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Speaker 1: drag and burlesque, because all are so theatrical, and if

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Speaker 1: you're going to the theater, then you know, if you

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Speaker 1: don't want theatrical, you may as well stay home.

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Speaker 2: Yeah totally.

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Speaker 3: I guess with those kind of forms, it's so broad

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Speaker 3: in how you can represent them, so it can be

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Speaker 3: a little bit more political, or it can just be

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Speaker 3: pure idiocy.

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Speaker 4: Yep, well perfect. What can we see you doing in

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Speaker 4: the show.

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Speaker 3: So my role in the show is basically I'm kind

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Speaker 3: of a clown within the show, okay, but I also

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Speaker 3: kind of take the side show role as well. So

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Speaker 3: I I put a balloon up my nose and pull

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Speaker 3: it out my mouth and get led in a waltz

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Speaker 3: by a drag queen.

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Speaker 2: I swallow a.

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Speaker 3: Sword and I whip a rose out of my bottom.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just subtle things.

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Speaker 1: Normal standing there on that first day and you're all

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Speaker 1: sorting out what you're going to do, and they say, Dale,

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Speaker 1: what can you bring to it?

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Speaker 5: Well?

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Speaker 1: I can pull it, you know, a balloon out of

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Speaker 1: my How does one know they can do it? Does

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Speaker 1: that become something that you just know you can do?

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Speaker 2: Look?

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Speaker 3: I ask myself this a lot, and I'm like, what

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Speaker 3: have I done in my life to kind of lead

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Speaker 3: me to this point? But I just find sideshows so fascinating.

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Speaker 3: It's just kind of pushing the human body like a

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Speaker 3: lot of circus actually, but it's just either I've watched

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Speaker 3: our show and kind of have realized the different responses

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Speaker 3: each actor gets.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and like we there's.

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Speaker 3: A number done by Thomas Warrel, who is an area

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Speaker 3: less and contortionists, and it is just so beautiful and

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Speaker 3: moving and there's just a ruptureus applause. And then I

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Speaker 3: get out there and swallow a sword or put a

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Speaker 3: balloon up my nose, and it just the audience wants

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Speaker 3: to throw up.

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Speaker 1: Well, swords swallowing, I can hardly say it. It's one

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Speaker 1: of those things that really fascinates me because I always

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Speaker 1: used to think, of all, it must be a trick,

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Speaker 1: the thing must fold up.

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Speaker 4: In the fact, but it is not a trick.

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Speaker 1: Is absolutely so, well, how the hell do you learn

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Speaker 1: to do that? How do you think that it's possibly

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Speaker 1: even a good idea skill?

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Speaker 3: I mean I learned I think maybe three or four

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Speaker 3: years ago. I still pretty I feel like I'm still

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Speaker 3: pretty new to it. There are some sword swallowers that

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Speaker 3: do above ten swords at a time. I'm just I can, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I can hardly brush my tongue, but following a sword,

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Speaker 3: I'm fine. And then people hear me brushing my teeth

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Speaker 3: and they're just like, are you sure you can do that?

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Speaker 2: It's a different feelings, I promise.

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Speaker 5: Actually lead to you, the person who's watching. Are you

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Speaker 5: watching from every angle thinking there's a trick? I want

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Speaker 5: to find it?

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Speaker 1: When I'm brushing my tongue, I just I always think

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Speaker 1: of that first time I'm going to do it.

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Speaker 2: Just anyway, it was a bit of a process. I

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Speaker 2: can't give away too much. No, I don't expect you to.

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Speaker 3: It was a bit of a process. It took quite

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Speaker 3: a while to kind of learn, but once I got it,

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Speaker 3: I just I was actually practicing at my mum and

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Speaker 3: dad's house when I was back in Dubble, and I

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Speaker 3: was just kind of like shutting my door and like,

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Speaker 3: don't come in the room.

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Speaker 2: My practicing saw we're so proud.

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Speaker 3: And then the day that that it happened, that it

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Speaker 3: finally kind of I did it successfully. I just ran

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Speaker 3: out of my room waving this sword around like mum

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Speaker 3: and dad. I was like, thirty, there was.

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Speaker 5: No one else's no, that's right to have to say

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Speaker 5: those words.

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Speaker 1: You know, a shock or something like someone opening the

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Speaker 1: door and just one.

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Speaker 3: Slip Lord of nieces and nephews, and I was just

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Speaker 3: to make sure you don't come in.

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Speaker 5: Don't try this at homecare out in the playgram might

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Speaker 5: just so your life is different, especially yelling that out

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Speaker 5: of the focus. But LIST said, I just in general conversation,

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Speaker 5: we're radio lifers. We've done this for a long time.

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Speaker 5: But when we talk about other jobs and least we'll

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Speaker 5: tell us. You know, she worked at the Casino on

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Speaker 5: stage in the early days, and I worked at Mirror Book,

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Speaker 5: a big w And then you were talking about other

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Speaker 5: jobs and you said, oh, I've got a job at

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Speaker 5: Circus ohs and well, we can't beat that that it's unreal.

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Speaker 3: It was my very very first circus job when I

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Speaker 3: was twenty three, I think I was. I trained as

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Speaker 3: a dancer in Brisbane and then I had a gymnastics background,

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Speaker 3: so I was like, oh, I could give this a

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Speaker 3: go and auditioned and ended up working with them for

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Speaker 3: maybe five or six years I think.

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Speaker 4: So that is how it started. It from gymnastics.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I like a lot of circ soleigh performers

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Speaker 1: were gymnasts and things like that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there kind of spectrum of performers. They range from

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Speaker 3: singers to high level gymnasts and whatever in between. Here

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Speaker 3: in Australia we have quite a high color of circus

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Speaker 3: artists and I think me getting late too. It's some

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Speaker 3: of the circus artists are really sought after and they

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Speaker 3: go overseas. Yeah, sometimes they stay local or they create

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Speaker 3: their own companies and travel the world.

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Speaker 2: It's the work ethic of the.

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Speaker 3: Australian circus cast and members is just incredible.

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Speaker 5: Actually quite a few it was so and Bonco was

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Speaker 5: the first one first, still my favorite.

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Speaker 4: I love. I still play the soundtrack from that sometimes

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Speaker 4: very good.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes is that what you.

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Speaker 1: In your Instagram bio Dale says, professional idiot. What is

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Speaker 1: it that they say about finding something you love and

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Speaker 1: you never work a day in your life.

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Speaker 3: Well, I realized when I was a teenager that I

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Speaker 3: had a gift of making people laugh by being silly,

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Speaker 3: and so I kind of I just have always had

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Speaker 3: a motto that if I can make one person laugh

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Speaker 3: a day, then I've lived a full life. And I

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Speaker 3: still really believe that now being having the kind of

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Speaker 3: the privilege of being on stage so often, I get

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Speaker 3: to do that to more than one person every day,

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Speaker 3: and it does really kind of fill my heart with joy.

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Speaker 3: It's a bit of a As soon as you walk

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Speaker 3: through our doors at Dirty Laundry, you just transported into

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Speaker 3: a different world. And so it's just a bit of

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Speaker 3: escape for the from the outside world and just remember

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Speaker 3: that there is a bit of life and fun out there.

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Speaker 5: You came on the right day because we opened the

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Speaker 5: phone z earlier to talk about when people realize they

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Speaker 5: were an idiot, and lots of.

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Speaker 4: That was a different kind of idiot. That's what makes

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Speaker 4: l a professional professionalessional.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely yeah, put it on the card.

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Speaker 1: Well, the show starts on Friday. I'd be getting into

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Speaker 1: fringe World. Dot com, dot you pretty quick, smart to

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Speaker 1: get tickets. It runs until February the fourth, Lovely to

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Speaker 1: meet you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for having me coming in.

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Speaker 5: Thank you