Dante’s wombat
Everyone gets it sometimes: sometimes a snuffling by your head at night, sometimes a distant grunt in a cold dark alley, sometimes an enveloping marsupial warmth when you're feeling blue; but it's only when you walk with Ebenezer that you can finally catch a glimpse of the rarest of creatures, that waddling scar-faced vat of bestial beauty in the stinkin' bloody flesh!
Coming to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in April 2026, an artistically ambitious performance across two of the city’s iconic venues, a bridge between north-east alt. and Naarm-Melbourne’s established art scene….
Join us as Eb emerges from the depths — dirty, wriggling, and unabashedly ripe — to share, with orchidaceous warmth, the comic potential of confusion itself through an hour of lyrical chaos.
Expect surreal suburban observations, quasi-literary mischief, and the odd singsong, along with bursts of physical comedy woven through fractured, dreamlike personal narratives. This gloriously strange collage of neighbourhood minutiae, arthritis, art, ballet, biscuits, books, tassels, and subterranean aromatics is equal parts absurdist confession, philosophical floundering, and spontaneous experiment.
In Dante’s Wombat fresher than fresh local produce delivers what is sure to be a blistering debut hour, portraying a perspective so askew that it almost approaches the profound, the mystical, the cinematic, the, well… just a raucous plunge into the odd and endearing little things behind everyday existence, really.
Who is ebenezer?
A greedy pinion ready to share a fractured journey through the subterranean vestibule.
Links
Yes, you can find Eb on the official Melbourne International Comedy Festival page.
Have a look.
Friday 10/04 & Saturday 11/04 7:30pm
Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre
Saturday 18/04 8:00pm
Melbourne Recital Centre
Primrose Potter Salon
Tickets will be here
Tickets here
Merchandise:
A program(me) featuring little drawings, lyrical sketches, and suchlike will be made available in some form IF everyone, including Eb, is very very very good.
A greedy pinion design can be found on Redbubble.
