Penny Ashton is a celebrated NZ comedienne who’s also laid them in aisles in Edinburgh and packed them in throughout the UK, US and Canada.
In 2006, she represented NZ in The World Cup of Theatresports in Germany and Australasia in a Performance Poetry Slam Tournament Tour of theUK. In 2010, she performed by invitation at The Glastonbury Festival and reported from the Miss Universe Pageant in Las Vegas.
A self-described “saucy minx”, Ashton has created a show that purports to trawl “the ins and… outs of the international sex industry”. Crammed full of “titillating facts and hour-glass figures” about the world’s oldest profession, it also boasts “a group orgasm, a guest porn-star and a very sexy stripper”.
She promises to “sing, dance and pontificate” in a hot-pink corset and “strung up” in fishnets.
Perhaps the most amazing thing is that she’ll be performing in the normally chaste surrounding of Teatro Vivaldi Restaurant, ANU Arts Centre on July 14, dinner at 7pm, show at 8.30pm.
Bookings to 6257 2718 or enquiries@vivaldirestaurant.com.au
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The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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