Thank You... John Jacobs, Adam Ibbetson, Elnaz Sheshgelani, Lia Vandersant, Jody Seidel, Clare Larman, Clare Mandes, Sam Steel, Fleur Rubens La Mama Mob, The Butterfly Club, Troynar Tribe, Friends & Lovers of Krows Bar Kabaret. La MAMA & ELLA FILAR’S KROW’S BAR KABARET PRESENT Office Phone: (03) 9347 6948 Office Hours: Mon – Fri | 10:30am – 5:30pm 349 Drummond, Carlton VIC 3053 MRS ROBINSON www.lamama.com.au | [email protected] A Soap CABARET as a part of Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2021 La Mama Theatre is on traditional land of the people of the Kulin Nation. We give our respect to the Elders of these traditional lands and to all First Nations people past, present and future. We acknowledge all events take place on stolen lands and that sovereignty was never ceded. We are grateful to all our philanthropic partners and donors, advocates, volunteers, audiences, artists and our entire community as we work towards the La Mama rebuild. Thank you! La Mama is financially assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council – its arts funding and advisory body, Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund - an Australian Government initiative, the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, and the City of Melbourne through the Arts and Creative Partnerships Program. April 13 - 18, 2021 MRS ROBINSON SONGBOOK MRS ROBINSON HAPPIN ESS Happiness, happiness A SOAp CABARET Dearly departed, yours in Happiness is not a crouching perpetuity beast Are passing me by, They’re Under your wedding dress Written & Directed by Ella Filar passing me by, It’s not a rare collector’s item Performed by Casey Nicholls-Bull, Ruth The Queen of Ambiguity To seek and hide and stick inside With just a hint of masculinity Your blushing bride. Katerelos, Chris Molyneux, Bruce Langdon, Is passing me by, She is passing Happiness, happiness Tom Costigan, Ella Filar (keyboard), Martin me by Happiness, happiness Zakharov (Sax), Sally Banks (Violin), Roni Happiness, happiness It’s not an egg you’ve owned and Happiness, happiness spawned Linser (Jembe) It’s not Amazing Techno Dream And pawned and long to Set design: Ella Filar Boat repossess Lighting design: Jason Crick To float and flaunt to impress It’s not a diamond in the sky It’s not thick, thermal underwear To pocket like a shooting star Artwork: Tamar Dolev To cover body parts you bare It’s much more. Or less Sound design: John Jenkin And wear inside out. Stage manager: Tatiana Bistrin Happiness, happiness SUMMER MOTHS Happiness, happiness Photography credit: Daren Gill Summer Moths of plague Happiness is not a winning proportion Number we all hope to guess Emigrate across the ocean Life is NOT a Cabaret old chum It’s not a Watershed you dread Blocking out the midday sun So you don’t have to come But had to have and glad you had All that sweaty petting done To rise from the dead Scrappy fragments of the past “…all the songs and the music are world class Snapshots of the fading lust A debt collector Made of stuff you can’t get with that smoky, jagged, disturbing Weimar feel” With the dirty deal detector enough off – Stagewhispers Is passing me by, She is passing Us troubadours ‘call love HOT me by LOVE Bi-spectacled speculator “off-kilter time signatures of Weimar Kabaret… With vibrating calculator unusual lilt… there is plenty of sharp political I remember wearing my heart out, Is passing me by, He is passing Dying for love and living for lust, commentary and clever wordplay to be had me by Weeping within and doing within Filar’s lyrics” – Aussie Theatre Happiness, happiness without, A horse is a horse of course and I saved Othello from playing TA-BOO! Ashes to ashes and dust to you can’t flog a dead horse dead Stranger Danger sacramental dust. But of course I am very coarse, I The star crossed lover’s scene is And Danger Stranger than a even swallowed a horse! more toxic than Morten Relative Stranger I remember your weight inside The Human kind is not too Most everybody dies all Might come and snuggle up me refined dropping dead like flies against you Bearing the brunt of my foreign You sow a heap of shit a heap of Romantic fiction is a deadly On that Midnight Train affair, shit you shall reap addiction At Coitus Junction I remember the warmth in your Ignore that fundamental flaw, it’s A heroine on ice might even die No longer a stranger to belly all in your mind and it shows twice dysfunction Smuggling our secret under the Why rock that old proverbial boat The cheating heart will always Diminished Mind and Body fake Russian fur. When you can jump the dare fatal attraction anal affair function proverbial old ship! Can’t save the lover from the You will do it all over again! I remember the quick beat of you cross heart Or the cross from the love it must That opened and shut faster than I saved my blow fly from the bear. Love and Lust the speed of light, spider Like footprints in the City’s distant I remember holding a candle that I saved the spider from fate Saved Cousin Rodney from past burned at both ends worse than death melancholia Will blind you up with the dirty Right through the hot summer The woman who swallowed it, You saved my brain cells from the dust night. was really full of shit vapours of weed Of fine Familial Lies You made me swallow a lie, now When in its evil grip Your mind Taboo to you Mother don’t blow out that surely I will die would flip and slip Might be Taboo to me to screw candle The Mother Nature is not too Down existential spiral of you too Daughter don’t grow up so fast, kind transcendental trip And leave you dangling high and Death is a lover my body can’t When fish goes belly up she The rank and file is in denial dry handle, does not weep It talks of tools of trade but the Strangled with Familial Ties We’re burying his body not his The fundamental flaw is in the tools of the tradies are cheap testicular past divine design and it shows Reptilian user friendly brain Well was it you or was it me who Can’t save the spider from the Spits microchips when said “I love my Family”? CAN’T SAVE THE SPIDER web unrestrained And was it me or was it you who FROM THE WEB r creepy crawly from being a You can’t undo a rusty screw said “Taboo or not Taboo” Saved Aunt Amelia from creep But you can screw and undo a And was it thee or was it he who necrophilia trusty sheep said “To be or Not To Be You saved me from flogging a I saved this fella from playing Taboo is quite my cup of tea so very dead horse Othello let us root our Family Tree!” THE CARAVAN OF LOVE Just do not wish, oh do not wish Check out The Angle of That OH NO NOT A CURVED BALLL!!! Right on at midnight, upon the for it to fade away Dangle, Oh what a familial tangle stair, I saw a man who wasn’t there CHORUS: Wish for less, wish You’re in Denial, Denial, Delete CHORUS: I lost my head, had an affair with for more x 2 that Family File! When life throws you a curved ball that man that wasn’t there Be careful what you’re wishing Be grateful it’s not a hand That was only yesterday, he for x 2 I never knew you were so grenade wasn’t there again today enchanting, You know the drill… Now you I never knew you were so exciting can now beat your own drum Oh how I wish, oh how I wish that IN DENI A L I never knew, never knew, never Life is not a Cabaret So you he would go away. You were courting a country affair knew I love you like I do. don’t have to come old chum! I tore the strips off the horizon All up front and nothing to wear I didn’t know you were so and pulled the plug on seven seas, All aflutter to grin and bare My enhancing I am climbing the walls of my Then dredged the sediment of inner sanctum camembert. I didn’t know you were so private hell sentiment You were boarding a spaced out entrancing I am getting high I am coming That might be might be there but trip, I didn’t know, didn’t know, down inside my habit proof shell never is. Tripping on board of a spaced Didn’t know you really love me so. I am holding my breath for you Maybe it was there yesterday, out ship can never tell who might be and wasn’t there again today Check in a bunch of bare Coming to screw me at my Five ‘Cause I wished, oh how I wished essentials TURNING THE CORNER Stars Balls Break Hotel! that it would go away. Checking out my bare credentials I am turning the corner of the There was no message upon my one way street Could be His Highly Holly phone, Check out The Angle of That The Uphills, the Downhills the Eminence Gyrating his corporate I looked again and it was gone, Dangle, Oh what a familial alley cats on heat body of evidence The fibrillations that’s how they tangle! I am holding my breath as I am Could be a rooting rat disguised start You’re in Denial, Denial, Delete dragging my feet dreading as suffragette With the sudden change of heart, that Family File! What might be coming down I felt the tremor yesterday, not towards me Could be a kamikaze warm fuzzy wuzzy feeling much at all today, You were beating about the bush At a thunderbolt speed! Could be a curved ball disguised Why did I wish, why did I wish, Flies buzz, buzz buzzing round as warm fuzzy wuzzy that it would go away.