Bob Paisley in THE EVENT to Replace Guy Masterson's Canceled Adelaide Fringe Show, March 5-16

Adelaide "Fringe Legend" Guy Masterson, was due to premiere his new show, ANTHEM FOR A DOOMED YOUTH at the fringe next week, but personal circumstances forced him to withdraw... Rather than leaving an empty space at his venue, North Adelaide's newest hub, Live At Nine, Kevin Crease Studios, he is sending in his stead his very good friend - and Adelaide veteran, Bob Paisley in John Clancy's multi-award winning THE EVENT, last seen at the Fringe with David Calvitto in 2010 and winner of the Fringe Award for Best Performance.

Also nominated for BEST SOLO PERFORMANCE by THE STAGE in 2009 with Calvitto, Bob Paisley took the show to Kansas City where he won equal acclaim in his home town.

Paisley is no stranger to Adelaide having assisted Masterson presenting The Centre For International Theatre's (CIT Adelaide) second season in 2011 He returned in 2012 with his critically acclaimed piece DRIVING MISS DAISY.

Having first arrived in 2004 with his memorable production of 12 ANGRY MEN Guy Masterson returned in 2006 with UNDER MILK WOOD and thence ANIMAL FARM in 2007. Thereafter, together with local heroine, Joanne Hartstone, (this year producing Adelaide Fringe Award winner, THE BUNKER) created CIT Adelaide in 2009 - where they imported over 30 shows in three years at Higher Ground. Sadly, economics forced a reduction in their bold vision in 2013, but Masterson's presence was still felt selling out two performances of ANIMAL FARM at AC Arts. This would have been Masterson's tenth straight trip down-under.

Paisley is something of an impresario himself having created the hugely successful BRITISH INVASION, an annual festival of British shows in Kansas City and was very keen to "help his buddy out" and return to Adelaide for the 3rd time. "It truly is a small world!" say's Paisley. "One minute Kansas City, the next Edinburgh, the next Adelaide... I have made so many friends in these places, it is great to have the chance to come back, especially with a play like The Event."

THE EVENT is a deceptively clever work, humorously yet assiduously dissecting the event of live theatre to the point you might question your own existence. It is one of those rare works that presses all the buttons in a gentle yet truly fascinating way leaving an utterly unforgettable experience.

The show runs at Live At Nine Kevin Crease Studios - Tynte Street, North Adelaide. Various Times - March 5th - 16th - 9 Performances Only (65 minutes).

Bob Paisley - Performer: Bob Paisley is an award winning actor and director, working with theatres across the United States and Canada. Favorite roles include Teach in American Buffalo, the title role in Faustus (LA Dramalogue Award), Tom in The Glass Menagerie, Billy in Billy Bishop goes to War, Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar and Heisenberg in Copenhagen. TV and film credits include, among others, The Rosa Parks Story, The Empty Acre, Scene of the Crime (CBS) and General Hospital. He is a founding member of Another Theatre Company in Halifax, Nova Scotia and the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre in Kansas City. He has directed productions for Theatre West Virginia, the Birmingham Children's Theatre and Neptune Theatre, Our Town Theatre Group. He lives in Kansas City.

John Clancy - Author: John Clancy is an Obie Award winning director and partner of Clancy Productions. He was also the founding Artistic Director of The Present Company and The New York International Fringe Festival, North America's largest theatre and performance festival. His plays have won The American Shorts Contest, The San Francisco Playwrights Center Dramarama and been short-listed for the Julie Harris Playwrighting Award. Directing credits at the Edinburgh Fringe include Americana Absurdum, Horse Country, Cincinnati, Fatboy, Screwmachine Eyecandy - (all winners of Scotsman Fringe First Awards) - Goner, Midnight Cowboy & The Extremists
He serves on the Advisory Council of The New York Theatre Experience, Inc., the city's pre-eminent advocacy and resource centre for downtown theatre, the Leadership Council of the Alliance for Nonprofit Governance and the Advisory Council of the English Language Theatre Society of Orenburg, Russia. He is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect and his writing has been published in Off, Edge, Village Voice and The New York Times.
He was awarded The New York Magazine Award in 1997 for "creativity, enterprise and vision". He lives on the Lower East Side with his wife, Nancy Walsh.

Guy Masterson - Producer: Born Guy Mastroianni to a Welsh mother and Italian-American father, educated at Christ's Hospital School, Horsham, and University of Wales, Cardiff, graduating BSc Joint Hons in Biochemistry & Chemistry. Emigrated to the USA in 1982. After stints in hotel and restaurant management and carpentry he attended UCLA (Performing Arts) before starting out as an actor in 1985. Living in Hollywood, he performed in over 20 plays in 4 years before returning to the UK in 1989 to study Classical Drama at LAMDA. He began solo-performing in 1991 with The Boy's Own Story. Under Milk Wood followed in 1994 and Animal Farm in 1995. He first went to the Edinburgh Fringe in 1994 with Under Milk Wood and his directorial debut, Playing Burton (with Josh Richards) both of which were sell-outs, and the following 16 seasons saw his association with some of Edinburgh's most celebrated hits as actor, producer, presenter, writer or director. He was also instrumental in the three highest grossing plays in Edinburgh's history directing and producing 12 Angry Men in 2003, originating One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest in 2004 and directing The Odd Couple in 2005). In 2001 he won "The Stage Award - Best Actor" for Fern Hill and Other Dylan Thomas, and in 2003 he was awarded Edinburgh's highest accolade, The Jack Tinker Spirit of the Fringe Award.

His company, Theatre Tours International (TTI) has presented over 100 shows in 20 Edinburgh seasons - mostly at The Assembly Rooms, and in doing so, has become the most visible and highly awarded independent theatre company at the Fringe. In 2010, Masterson also founded CIT - The Centre for International Theatre at the Adelaide Fringe for which he has presented over 30 shows in its 4 years.

Edinburgh 2009 saw him produce & direct perhaps his most commercially successful show to date, Morecambe by Tim Whitnall, starring Bob Golding, which won a Scotsman Fringe First, transferred to London's West End, and won The Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment as well as a nomination for Best Performer in a Musical or Entertainment.

Most recently, Guy directed and starred in a major production of The Odd Couple in Belfast - which transferred to Welwyn Garden City last July. He also played John Kemble in the late Adrian Bunting's Kemble's Riot in New York and wrote, directed and played the Dame in his first panto, Beauty and the Beast.

Guy continues to tour domestically and international with his various solo performances, and to produce and direct work from his base at the Hawthorne Theatre in Welwyn Garden City, Herts. His work as a mainstream actor has been limited by his company workload, his last TV appearance being in Casualty in 2008, but he currently enjoys the honour of being the current "Franziskaner Monk" - for the eminent German weissbier, Franziskaner for whom he has shot several lucrative commercials and for which he has garnered an element of fame in Germany and Austria as the beer slugging monk!

He is married to Brigitta and father to Indigo and Tallulah.

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