Theatre & Opera Director, Creative Producer, Writer
Fat Boy
FAT BOY by Kate Gaul
Directed by Nick Atkins
Performed by Tom Christopherson
MAYDAY writers festival, Tap Gallery 2013
Originally performed by Michael Cutrupi as part of Bondi Feast 2012
"Kate Gaul’s Fat Boy, performed by Tom Christophersen and directed by Nick
Atkins, is almost doubtless my favourite of a fondly-regarded bunch, for its
sheer, unbridled, surreal imagination. Christophersen’s performance is nighon
perfect; again, thanks in large measure to a director with the utmost in
sympathetic resonance with Gaul’s vision. Or perhaps it’s I that chimes loudest,
since, sadly, like Fat Boy, I’ve an unusual appetite for donuts. Or anything
sweet. Fat Boy, the play (and its narrator) has a wicked sense of humour. Take
this, for example: “His mother died in childbirth. Unrelated?” Fat Boy grew up,
tragically, in the suburbs of Hobart and was driven to doughnuts, at least in
part, by his brothers’ mega millions win, which they chose not to share with
him, despite his name being on the ticket. Doughnuts and disco dancing. As
you do. Who would’ve thought he’d be capable of superheroism? But then,
Clark Kent was a nerd. Fat Boy is more of a treat than churros dipped in hot
chocolate." Crikey - Curtain Call