Previous Works
2019- 2021
CHAMELEON
By Britt Plummer
"Delightfully, humorously, and shrewdly exploring gender and identity, Chameleon is a show of complexity and salience."
(Gutter Culture)
Chameleon was a stirring mash-up of satire, storytelling and physical comedy, smashing stereotypes, exploring gender dynamics and the harmful effects of social conditioning. With wit, vivacity, and whip-smart intelligence, Plummer drew frankly on her own experiences of living and loving in small town Australia and the big smoke of Paris to bare escapades both heartfelt and hair-raising.
Chameleon created conversation around universal social issues for women, and celebrates pleasure, liberation and sisterhood.
“ Waves of recognition, sighs of resignation, and the small moments of held breath break through the near continuous laughter as Plummer peels away the disguises women wear in order to present the image society has conditioned them to create.”
(Gutter Culture)
Chameleon was the debut solo show, from actor and clown Britt Plummer. Britt had been developing and touring the work over a year beginning at ActNow Theatre’s MakeSpace, winning Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award for Emerging Artist 2019, and with the support of The Mill’s Spotlight Breakout Residency and Arts SA’s Made in Adelaide program, Britt presented a new version of the show at ZOO Venues at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and in 2020 at Artrage’s Girls School as part of FRINGE WORLD Festival.
Chameleon was directed by Hew Parham (Rudi’s The Rinse Cycle, Odyssey Schmodyssey, Giovanni!).
FRANK. presented a sold out run of Chameleon at Rumpus Theatre in September 2020, programmed as part of their 2020 Season. In a reimagined version of her critically acclaimed solo show, Britt Plummer was joined by a fantastic femme squad of multidisciplinary artists to aid in her quest to disarm the patriarchy with humour, passion and disco.
Creative Team: Hew Parham (Director), Felicity Boyd, Jules Mayer, Taylor Nobes, Bronwyn Palmer, Taylor Scheid, Poppy Mee, Zola Allen and Erin Perrey.
ADELAIDE FRINGE WEEKLY AWARD WINNER 2019 ~ EMERGING ARTIST
Reviews for the solo season -
“Meet the Chameleon, Britt Plummer. If you don’t know who this is yet, then pay attention because this is definitely this reviewer’s personal favourite for outstanding performer of FRINGEWORLD 2020 so far. Plummer and her work are in a class all their own!”
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
(Fourth Wall Media 2020)
“Plummer is a delight. She is able to convey her encounters with a deft comic touch and the right amount of humanity and sentiment.”
★ ★ ★ ★
(Gutter Culture 2020)
“Plummer is a serious purveyor of social change intent on achieving her goal with perfected physical comedy”
“Chameleon is imbued with silliness and play that never detracts from the gravity of her topic.”
★ ★ ★ ★
(Fest Magazine 2019)
"It’s bizarre and brilliant; a breathless life story told through disco mime and wide-eyed, giggling buffoonery."
“Britt—trained at the prestigious École Philippe Gaulier in Paris—is an utterly commanding performer; strong and silky in her movements, whip-quick and effervescent in her expressions.”
(Fringe Feed 2020)
“Plummer keeps it light with a perfected routine, and this helps get the message across strongly”
(The F Word EDINBURGH 2019)
“This is a performer at full power in a show which perfectly utilises her many skills - a dream to be part of the experience.”
(Audience Review, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019)
Reviews for the ensemble season at RUMPUS Theatre -
“Chameleon at Rumpus is feminist performance at its best. Hilarious (crying with laughter), super smart, brilliant performance ensemble, fucking loved it.”
(Audience Review)
“I just saw the best show!!! Super funny, super smart. A great night out at the theatre.”
(Audience Review)
“This show is absolutely brilliant. Very clever performance. I’m going again.”
(Audience Review)
“DO YOU LIKE FUN? DO YOU LIKE GLITTER AND SEQUINS AND PERFORMERS SO FUNNY THAT YOU GET TIRED OF HEARING YOUR OWN LAUGHTER? Catch Chameleon before it’s over!”
(Audience Review)
PAST PERFORMANCES:
APRIL 2021
SA Regional Tour
Nautilus Arts Centre, Port Lincoln as part of SALT Festival
Middleback Arts Centre, Whyalla
This tour was supported by the Department of the Premier and Cabinet - Arts South Australia, Country Arts SA and The Mill.
SEPTEMBER 2020
RUMPUS 2020 Season
DIRECTED BY HEW PARHAM
MAY 2020
(INTERNATIONAL TOUR POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC)
Prague Fringe Festival ~ Divadlo Kampa
JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2020
FRINGE WORLD Festival 2020 Perth ~ Girls School
AUGUST 2019
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2019 ~ ZOO Playground
Directed by Hew Parham
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Season 2019 was supported by Arts South Australia’s Made In Adelaide Program
FEB - MARCH 2019
Adelaide Fringe Festival 2019 ~ MakeSpace
Directed by Leo Mohr
MEDIA
The Adelaide Review ~ 'Send in the Clown' Interview
Radio Interview - Radio Adelaide Rumpus Season September 2020
Article ~ The Adelaide Review ~ Rumpus Theatre Program 2020
Review ~ Gutter Culture 2020
Review ~ Fourth Wall Media 2020
Radio Interview ~ Thirty Minute City, Radio Adelaide January 2019
The Adelaide Review September 2020. Cover photo by Ramsay Taplin
Production Photos from Adelaide Fringe 2019 and FRINGE WORLD 2020 Seasons:
Photos 1-6 by Jamie Hornsby, RUMPUS SEASON 2020.
Photos 7-15 by Kaifu Deng, FRINGE WORLD SEASON, Girls School Perth 2020
Photo 16 by Jules Mayer, Adelaide Fringe Season, MakeSpace 2019
2021
THE BAROQUE
The Baroque was a devised work created in 2020 by Oliver Nilsson and Britt Plummer with the support of The Mill’s Centre Stage Residency.
Performed by Oliver Nilsson
Directed and produced by Britt Plummer
"The rubber-faced Nilsson - a kind of tall, Nordic Rowan Atkinson."
(The West Australian on Scotland! 2019)
The Baroque was set in the 17th Century Baroque era, a period of extravagance, opulence and discovery; with so much changing in the world from religion to science, sacred to secular, ambiguity to clarity. There was the birth of Opera, and some regard Baroque music as the pinnacle of expression of the human condition.
The Baroque joyfully played with the common Baroque traits, “an interest in performativity and theatricality; a love of spectacle; a self-reflexive attitude towards methods of construction; a desire to play with the borders that separate illusion and reality; and, above all, a mode of address that engages the audience immediately through the emotions and the senses.” (‘Emotions and the Seduction of the Senses, Baroque to Neo-Baroque’ Lisa Beaven and Angela Ndalianis.)
Touching on loneliness in privilege and self-solitude, diving into the inseparable journey of everyday objects, the world, mind, dreams, and reality, through the play of bursting silliness of Nilsson packed an hour full of romantic melancholy, poetry, frills, harpsichords, and joy!
Oliver Nilsson was.. The Baroque.
An irregularly shaped pearl.
“ Nilsson’s impeccable clowning talents make even the mundane hysterical.”
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
(Fringe Feed 2021)
“Oliver has instant access to a seemingly infinite funny face library and can contort his putty face in a micro-second.”
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
(James Murphy Reviewer 2021)
“Swedish clown Oliver Nilsson shines in an hour of madcap theatre that will both tickle your funny bone and break your heart.”
★ ★ ★ ★ .5
(The Advertiser 2021)
“With minimal dialogue but maximum body language, Nilsson creates a memorable and hilarious show that is not only set in the baroque era but intelligently pays homage to the humour of the era as well.”
★ ★ ★ ★ .5
(Fourth Wall Media 2021)
Adelaide Fringe Festival Award Winner 2021
~ ‘Best Emerging Producer Award presented by MILKE’ - Britt plummer ~
PAST PERFORMANCES:
MARCH 2021
Kangaroo Island Bush Festival
March 2021
The Mill Adelaide
Adelaide Fringe Festival Tickets
FEBRUARY 2021
Pleasure Garden PERTH
Fringe World Festival Perth Tickets
MEDIA
The Baroque and the enduring power of the clown - CityMag
Fringe Feed Review - Fringe World - 5 stars
Fourth Wall Review - Fringe World - 4.5 stars
About the Artist:
Oliver Nilsson is an actor from Sweden specialising in clown, physical comedy, mime, and slapstick, a graduate from Skara Skolscen Performing Arts School (2013) in Sweden, and Jacques Lecoq International School of Theatre (2017) in Paris. Oliver co-created the physical comedy shows Scotland! and The Bakers by The Latebloomers, which have toured Australian festivals and worldwide.
Awards: FRINGE WORLD Festival Weekly Award 2020 - Best Comedy, Spirit of the Fringe Award - Paris Fringe 2018, Adelaide Fringe Festival Weekly Award 2019 – Best Comedy, Prague Fringe Festival - The Inspirativni Cena Award (For Best New Work) & Nomination for the Kreativni Cena (Creative Award for Best Show).
Oliver is inspired by the work of artists such as; James Thierrée (La Compagnie du Hanneton), Victoria Chaplin and Jean-Baptiste Thierrée (Le Cirque Invisible), Harpo Marx (The Marx Brothers), Sigur Ros, Kraftwerk, and Johann Sebastian Bach.
Photos 1-6 Season at The Mill 2021 by Ramsay Taplin
Photos 7-8 Development at The Mill 2020 by Daniel Marks
Photos 9-14 Publicity images by Ramsay Taplin
