#Kwanda: A Play Full Recording

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Here’s the satirical play I wrote back in 2019 for your viewing pleasure.

Monday night, 9.30pm, ABC.

Five panellists join a veteran journalist host on the nation’s flagship discussion program, ready to answer audience questions about the 2019 Australian federal election.

It’s set to be a scintillating display of civilised and enlightening debate.

Then someone starts saying what they really think, and it all goes to shit.

A satire about politics, words, honesty and The Discourse.

Recorded @ MICF 2019

Ra Chapman as SUSAN MINN

Emily Taheny as KATIE BIRD

Michelle Brasier as MEREDITH DUNN

Tom Ballard as TONY JONES

Patrick Livesey as MICHAEL LAWSON

Geraldine Hickey as LEONIE HARRIS

Scott Edgar as BRIAN / GUITARIST

Written by Tom Ballard

Directed by Alan Brough

Thanks to Zen, the MICF and all at Token Events

Enough Airdate on Channel 10: October 10th

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Stand-up special Tom Ballard: Enough, which has previously screened on Paramount+, has a Free to Air screening on 10 in October.

The special was filmed at Chapel off Chapel in Melbourne in late 2021.

Tom Ballard’s had Enough. He’s had enough of COVID, anti-vaxxers, being lonely, culture wars, the super wealthy, capitalism and Baby Boomers. He’s over it. But he’s determined to fix all these things by yelling horrible jokes about them in a beautiful venue. Ballard’s fearless, he’s unrelenting and he is at his white-hot rage best in Enough.

10:10pm Monday October 10 on 10! Is that deliberate?

 

My new special ENOUGH is out now on Paramount+

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From COVID to capitalism, watch Tom Ballard try to fix everything by yelling his horrible jokes in a beautiful venue.

“One of the most fearless and hilarious voices in Australian comedy” – Wil Anderson

“An hour of absolutely hilarious white-hot rage. ★★★★★ ” – Time Out “A true barbarian.” – Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun

Sign up for a free 7-day trial for Paramount+ now and ENJOY: https://bit.ly/3tW4Un1

My BBC Stand-Up Special: “Solastalgia”

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Listen here! 

 

Tom Ballard: Solastalgia

The world is on fire and we’re all going to die lol.

Recorded in his hometown of Melbourne, Solastalgia is the first Radio 4 stand-up special from award-winning Millennial Australian comedian Tom Ballard. It’s his terrified, emotional and hilarious response to the climate crisis – what it means, how it makes us feel, what if anything we can do about it, and whether any of it is funny.

He’ll even tell you what Solastalgia means.

Tom was nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer in 2015 and for the main prize in 2016, and hosted his own daily late-night comedy show for ABC, Tonightly with Tom Ballard. He can be heard regularly on the smash-hit satirical podcast The Bugle, and his work is “unrelenting and uproarious” (Chortle), “brave, biting, ballsy and ultimately, brilliant” (Time Out), “multi-dimensional and multi-layered, adding twist upon twist and full of little parcels of surprises” (Beyond The Joke), and “engaged, conscientious and consistently, archly funny, Ballard is precisely the sort of political commentator the world needs” (The Scotsman).

Written and performed by Tom Ballard

Recorded by Kristina Miltiadou

Post production by Rich Evans

Produced by Ed Morrish

Recorded at Comedy Republic, Narrm/Melbourne – on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.

A Lead Mojo production for BBC Radio 4