About the Performance
‘God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh' Voltaire (1694-1778)
Turning a quizzical eye to the woes of the heart and reeking with scandal and scurrilous vice, Optimism transforms Voltaire's classic satire of enlightened insanity, Candide, into a cutting commentary on the no-worries bravura of the Australian swagger.
Australian comedian Frank Woodley leads a wonderful bunch of clowns in this remarkable road trip. Religion, sex, disease and philosophy all cross our hero's path as he travels across five continents through a multitude of moods.
Join the criminally cheerful Candide for an optimistic journey to Utopia and back.
'a ravishing piece of theatre' Scotland on Sunday on Malthouse Melbourne's The Tell Tale Heart
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Supported by the Government of Victoria, Australia through Arts Victoria
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