Category: Betty Grumble

LOVE AND ANGER, is back after a one night stint in the Griffin Bach Festival last April. Betty Grumble, a subversive burlesque artist from the fringe of Sydney theatre activism is, spectacularly, back. With the 1967 text, THE SCUM MANIFESTO, by Valerie Solanas – a radical feminist work – in her hands and quoted from, serving as a reference to give this work, well spine, Betty uses her body in a ‘ in-yer-face’ reveal to parody, satirise, mens’ historic objectification of women and to re-claim the sexual normality of the female. She is fearless (courageous) in the method of her…

LOVE AND ANGER, is vividly described in Griffin’s publicity as a: Womanifesto, call to arms, and long hard kiss from surreal showgurl, obscene beauty queen and sex clown, Betty Grumble. Witness her ecosexually charged riot of dancing dissent, disco and deep push back-ery, where pleasure is a radical act and the body a bloody love letter. Prequel, sequel or freak-quel the head-spinning LOVE AND ANGER is a ‘reclamation of the feminine spirit in all of its juices, jiggles and joy. The last act of the Griffin Bach Festival, late night: 10pm (more like 10.20), is the spectacular underground artist that…