Melbourne International Comedy Festival

Le Scatterman

James Hullick

Embrace your inner crap Dad!

9–12, 14, 16–18 April

JOLTED Arts Space

342 High St, Northcote

 Buy tickets here  $30/$20/Tightarse Tuesday $15

A recently divorced sound artist dad gorges on new lows in parenting, human engagement and generally being crap.

Part solo concert (prepared piano/guitar/voice/synthesisers), part commedia dell’arte: Le Scatterman features unruly flashes of dark comedy and a twist of performance art, delivered by Australia’s recalcitrant sound artist James Hullick.

‘The audience followed Scatterman as he talked to himself, gesticulating and staggering around a couch or playing a prepared piano while opening one beer can after another. Uncouth antics were contrasted by candid images of his family’. Le Scatterman addresses ‘the self-defeating idea of seeking the perfect life: the perfect husband, mother, child, society or artist’. Cool Perth Nights

Cast live:
James Hullick

Cast on video:
Charlotte Bolcskey
Astrid Bolcskey-Hullick
Scarlet Bolcskey-Hullick

Director/Composer – James Hullick

In recent years Le Scatterman productions have been presented as theatre productions (2023, JOLTED Arts Space), an album (2026) and adapted into episodes on radio for PBS 106.7FM airing Sundays 10pm, 8–29 November 2021 on The Sound Barrier show, presented by Ian Parsons. A version of the project premiered at the Perth Arts Centre in 2016 supported by Tura New Music.