PARASITES LOST at the Melbourne Fringe's Butterfly Club

Altana Colley announces her debut one-woman show, telling of how she's travelled the world. She's lived in villages, and taught health education to remote communities. She's also managed to contract most of the world's least pleasant parasites. Essentially she's terrible at her job. Come on an adventure, across the world and through Alanta's intestine; and learn about some of the world's cheekiest micro-organisms, and how Alanta contracted each of them. Not a show for the faint of heart.

You're never alone, when you've got a parasite. Ten years of travelling and working in Asia and Africa, Alanta has seen a few things. And eaten a few things. And yelled her lunch into not an inconsequential number of toilets.

Parasites Lost is equal parts scientific, entertaining and comedic. It tempers the educational elements of a TED talk with hilarious anecdotes and the occasionally necessarily moments of potty humour. This show is an informative and pathos-addled adventure both across the globe and under the microscope. Discover brain-controlling fungi, living Hollywood beauty treatments, and parasites living right under your nose. Literally, under your nose. Right now.

Alanta Colley is a public health practitioner, a comedian, and a bee-keeper. During the day she. By night she tells jokes about her bees to confused comedy crowds. She spent most of her twenties gallivanting about various countries, working in East Timor, Cambodia, Uganda and Kenya, on malaria prevention programs and sanitation programs. This is her debut solo Show.

Parasites Lost opens on the 21st of September at the Butterfly Club and runs for five nights only. Bookings recommended.

Parasites Lost runs from September 21-25, starting at 7pm. Tickets cost $25-32.

Venue: The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place, Melbourne

Tickets can be bought here.

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