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You Beauty
By: Mish Grigor
2024
This is a story about a middle class person trying to have a nice night out at a theatre show they heard about on some vaguely credible mailing list. Sounds fairly pedestrian, but there is a twist: the middle class person is you.
Your friends have stood you up — you are slightly peeved as you’ve worn your new Clergerie boots to show off, and you are concerned they might pinch; you’ll be limping around for nothing. Let’s hope there is someone interesting enough there to make it worth your while.
‘You Beauty’, is a meta exploration of class and identity. With her signature humour and tongue firmly in cheek, Mish Grigor has written a performance in a book about an actual theatre show entitled ‘Class Act’, which was in part a response to the film Musical ‘My Fair Lady’, which itself was adapted from ‘Pygmalion’, by George Bernard Shaw. Quite a genealogy, but don’t worry, no one is wearing a bonnet.
Mish Grigor, co-director of APHIDS, has written for The Guardian and REALTIME, as well as essay collections ‘Melbourne on Film: Cinema That Defines Our City’ (Black Inc), and ‘Let’s Go Outside: Art in Public’ (Monash University Publishing).
APHIDS is an experimental arts organisation that specialises in performance, public art and collaborating with people beyond the arts, based in Naarm/Melbourne. APHIDS merch includes accessories, clothing and publications designed by artists.As a not-for profit organisation, by purchasing APHIDS merch you are directly supporting artists.
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