Hey! Yeah! It’s Molly’s Travelling Worm Show!

Overview

There’s something fundamentally kooky, even surreal, about small town tourism, especially where a Big Thing or a pageant themed after the local produce is involved.  So a puppet variety show seems like an appropriately oddball way to go about the topic.

Hey!  Yeah!  It’s Molly’s Travelling Worm Show! is a comedy about the grand and daggy dreams of regional tourism.  Written and performed, with puppet assistance, by Melita Rowston, it tells the story of the Karmai worm festival, a quaint tourist initiative which is credited with saving the Gippsland town of Korumburra from financial ruin.

Rowston’s brand of theatre, high on quirk and frequently venturing into dark comedy, has mostly been seen on Sydney stages.  It doesn’t get much more Victorian than the celebration of a big worm though – the renowned Giant South Gippsland Earthworm no less - and this is a show sure to have a strong local resonance.