Ira Glass to Bring THREE ACTS, TWO DANCERS, ONE RADIO HOST to Arts Centre Melbourne

This July, This American Life creator Ira Glass will bring his exciting live stage show THREE ACTS, TWO DANCERS, ONE RADIO HOST to Arts Centre Melbourne's State Theatre.

A combination of live radio and contemporary dance, THREE ACTS, TWO DANCERS, ONE RADIO HOST is the passion project of Ira Glass along with NYC-based dance group Monica Bill Barnes & Company.

The show includes radio interviews restaged as dance pieces, alongside stories from the lives of the three performers: Ira Glass, Monica Bill Barnes and Anna Bass and is split into three parts: Act One is about the job of being a performer, Act Two is about falling (and staying) in love, and Act Three explores how nothing lasts forever.

'The show's a mix of two things that really have no business being on stage together at all. Dance is all visuals, no talking. Radio's all talking, no visuals. But what the stories on This American Life have in common with dance is music. That's a start. And Monica Bill Barnes and Anna Bass are such funny, human-scale, relatable sorts of performers; their sensibility somehow matches a lot of what we do on the radio show. I know this whole thing sounds a little nuts but I swear it's pretty great.' - Ira Glass

Glass encountered the work of Monica Bill Barnes in 2011 and invited her to guest on occasional live broadcasts of This American Life. Their collaboration gradually led to THREE ACTS, TWO DANCERS, ONE RADIO HOST, which had its first run at Carnegie Hall in 2013. It has been performed in over 69 US cities. The show will tour through select venues in California, New Hampshire, Alabama and North Carolina between March and June 2016, before concluding its tour in Australia.

THREE ACTS, TWO DANCERS, ONE RADIO HOST is co-represented exclusively by Steven Barclay Agency & Pomegranate Arts.

BOOKING DETAILS:

THREE ACTS, TWO DANCERS, ONE RADIO HOST

with Ira Glass, Monica Bill Barnes and Anna Bass

Thursday 14 July and Friday 15 July (8pm)

State Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne

Tickets on sale Friday 11 March, 9am

Book at artscentremelbourne.com.au or ticketmaster.com.au.

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