After a 23 year hiatus, double cancer survivor and previous Moosehead Award-winner Katrina Mathers (The Wedge, Flipside, Footy Chicks) now returns to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
She’s wiser, healthier, and (thanks to menopause) hotter than ever.
Premiering her latest work, Anything But The Dyson and Other Excellent Monologues at Collingwood’s newest and most eclectic arts hub – the Black Box Theatre at Trainscendence – MICF audiences can ex pect a rollercoaster expose about the joys of sweating, swearing, dating, menopause meltdowns, cold water triumphs, memory loss… and um, no…wait, I just had it, er, something else…
Created by Katrina Mathers, Anything But The Dyson and Other Excellent Monologues features her own work and that of other talented, local female writers. A series of clever and self-contained stories and reflections about midlife mayhem, this new Australian comedy places a side-splitting spotlight on the complex love-hate relationship of owning a Dyson vacuum cleaner, interwoven with other excellent monologues about slamming into your 50s.
Best known as newsreader spoof Sandra Sultry on Ch10’s sketch series The Wedge, where she was one of the regular main ensemble writer/performers, Katrina Mathers was last seen on stage in Skating in the Clouds at Theatre Works in 2024. She has an extensive career in film and television with credits including Blue Heelers, Wilfred, City Homicide, Economy Class, and ABC’s sketch series Flipside – which she co created. She was a lead voice artist on the long-running ABC 774 radio serial, The Breakfast Shift, has won awards for the web series Incoming: Words of War, played a depressed mum in Tones and I’s Never Seen the Rain music video (38million+ views), and was the nurse in the original Saw short film.
Now heading back into the MICF scrum, comedy lovers are invited to join her on a fun, honest and chaotic journey of navigating the wonders of menopause. Older, hotter, funnier. Bring a fan.
Oh, and Anything But The Dyson and Other Excellent Monologues is also in no way endorsed by the manufacturers of Dyson vacuum cleaners. Yet.
March 26 – April 19
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