The Melbourne Metropolitan Real Estate Agent of the Year Awards 2022
Crack out your rental increases and pop on your best Tarocash suit because tonight is your night.
Join Alice Tovey (Garbage Monster, Doggo) and Frankie McNair (Relax Your Knees, Emma's Debutante) as they celebrate the collapse of the property market and suckle at the teat of housing inequality. Landlords will be praised, tenants will be punished.
Each night, different famous friends will be invited to compete for the coveted title of Real Estate Agent of the Year and the glorious golden can of Lynx Africa.
Each show is a new experience with new celebrity guests, so be sure to join Alice and Frankie for a night of character comedy, guest performances and real estate mini games.
“One of those shows you need to catch to experience the special kind of comedy magic that only happens at festival time.” - Scenestr
Alice Tovey: One Night Only (Over Seven Nights)
Live and in performance for one night only! (Please note that the show takes place over seven nights. We cannot stress this enough.)
Many words have been used to describe Alice Tovey. Insightful, award winning, melodic, pedantic. But one hyphenated pseudo word stands above the rest: hit-maker.
Joined by her long time co-writer and musical director Ned Dixon, together they're getting the band back together to celebrate the hits, and nothing but the hits. Featuring Tovey's stage band The Apostles.
”If you’re seeking a show that sits outside the standard hour of ‘comic with a mic and a crowd’, this is the high-energy, high-quality hour of tunes, relentless laughs, and boss bitch energy that you’ve been searching for.” - Scenestr
Doggo
A pop anthology that will unleash you and set you free.
Rooted in self-reflection, catharsis and silliness, Doggo is Alice Tovey’s most ambitious work to date. Through her unique, musical and provocative lens, Tovey blends elements of musical comedy, experimental performance, burlesque and immersive theatre to create an hour of pop bangers, sketch and sizzling satire that will leave audiences begging for more.
“A f**king good time. ★★★★☆” - The Music
“Alice Tovey’s Doggo is burlesque par excellence. ★★★★☆” - Arts Hub
“Tovey rocks the house with dog balls of steel.” - Stage Whispers
“A soaring voice that sees her holding notes long enough to leave the audience short of breath.” - The Age
“Tovey knows how to hold the audience in the palm of her ‘good boy’ paw.” - Time Out
Written & Performed by Alice Tovey
Directed by Dirk Hoult
Produced by Hot Mess Productions and Clare Rankine
Garbage Monster
After rummaging around her garbage bin, Alice is ready to share some of her most shameful secrets with strangers. Secrets that have been marinating in bin juice for a while now..
Exploring the parts of ourselves - and our society - that we hide away and bury deep, GARBAGE MONSTER is an hour of shameless and shame filled observational comedy and razor-sharp original songs.
Accompanied by the delicious Ned Dixon, Tovey explores shame, sexuality, femininity and the endless parade of unforgivable men that plague human existence.
Created and Performed by Alice Tovey & Ned Dixon.
Produced by Hot Mess Productions.
“Tovey is at the forefront of a new age of comedy excellence. ★★★★★” - The Music
Polygamy, Polygayou
In the forgotten town of Old South Wales, three sister wives have been in a loving group marriage with their darling husband Edgar. When Edgar dies suddenly in a horrific carriage accident, the wives farewell him through song, catching the attention of a big-shot Hollywood music producer. Before you can say "three's a crowd!", the wives are thrust into the modern age and catapulted to stardom.
Polygamy, Polygayou is a hot new musical about love, sisterhood and the bonds of matrimony from four powerhouse performers: Margot Tanjutco, (Golden Gibbo Nominee 2019 Melbourne International Comedy Festival), Hayley Tantau (Moosehead Award Recipient 2018), Alice Tovey (Green Room Award Nominee) and Charity Werk (Best Comedy Nominee 2018 Melbourne Fringe).
“Polygamy, Polygayou is positive and subversive as it celebrates love and family wherever it’s found...[could become] an international cult hit.” - Time Out.
Existential Crisis: a Rock Opera
Existential Crisis (A Rock Opera) the brand new cabaret by award winning duo Alice Tovey and Ned Dixon. Together with a live four-piece band, Tovey and Dixon’s fist pumping, velvet wearing, 80s dramatic rock opera explores the crushing sense of anxiety that goes hand-in-hand with the dreaded quarter life crisis.
Flipping cabaret on its head, this show hands steel instruments to classically trained musicians. Part narrative, part ballad and full balls-to-the-wall rock, Existential Crisis (A Rock Opera) brings all the energy of a live band and big vocals and aims to kick nihilism in the proverbial dick.
Alice Tovey is a Melbourne based singer, songwriter, comedian, actress, writer and egomaniac. Her first solo show, Malice (written and performed with composer Ned Dixon) was nominated for a Green Room Award for Best Original Songs and won an Adelaide Fringe Festival Weekly Award for Best Emerging Artist. Again collaborating with Ned Dixon, Alice premiered Personal Messiah (2016) and Mansplaining (2017) to much acclaim.
Created and performed by Alice Tovey and Ned Dixon.
Produced by Hot Mess Productions.
“Alice Tovey’s Insightful Musical Comedy Skewers Gender Expectations.”- The Age
Mansplaining
How do women survive in a man’s world? Allow award-winning duo, Alice Tovey and Ned Dixon to mansplain as they re-write the man-ual with their razor-sharp show, Mansplaining. Alice Tovey’s insightful musical comedy takes audiences on a journey of masculinity, misogyny and the millennial man.
Original songs such as ‘Mansplaination’ and ‘I’m not racist…I just say racist things’ are layered in meaning and hilarious in execution. A mixed media presentation of music, voice, kazoos, and Destiny’s Child sock puppets, Mansplaining is a confident, proud and bright (Herald Sun) production that embodies the feminist, political and brilliantly cynical style Tovey and Dixon are renowned for.
Created and Performed by Alice Tovey & Ned Dixon.
Produced by Hot Mess Productions.
"Fans of Tom Lehrer, or Tim Minchin, will be right at home here." - Australian Arts Review
Personal Messiah
“She is the one who comes after me, the straps of whose stilettos you are not worthy to untie” – John 1:30
Many have claimed to be the Messiah before, but you won't forget this one – an egomaniac in six inch heels. Alice Tovey: Personal Messiah is the razor-sharp new show from the award winning Alice Tovey.
Tackling religion, politics, taxation, femininity and Beyonce, Alice Tovey, alongside right hand man Ned Dixon, brings you a night of brand new songs featuring her brand new band, The Apostles.
Strap in for the future of cabaret comedy.
Written and performed by Alice Tovey and Ned Dixon
Produced by Hot Mess Productions
“Razor-sharp.” - Beat Magazine
Malice
Malice: a deliciously offensive, blisteringly scathing hour of original song from Alice Tovey, a rebel heart with 'razor-sharp humour, and an unbelievable set of pipes'.
Nominated for a Green Room Award for Best Original Songs, Alice simultaneously offends and charms audiences with her 'devilishly funny' solo debut, with Melbourne composer Ned Dixon by her side.
Tovey’s inaugural show takes aim at all aspects of millennial life. Tackling everything from love and death and Karl Stefanovic, without bursting the seam of her Spanx.
"Razor-sharp humour, and an unbelievable set of pipes to match. ★★★★" - Theatre People