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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Trigger Warning
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'Trigger Warning sees the return of Dave – a meat-headed standup with a low slung ponytail, stonewashed jeans and plenty of dick jokes – who suffers an epic meltdown on stage in such a fashion that will leave you bewildered, challenged and completely hysterical long after you have left the show.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Production Details

  • First produced as part of the 2016 Melbourne Comedy Festival.

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Works about this Work

Interview With Zoe Coombs Marr Miles O'Neil , 2019 single work interview
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 75 2019; (p. 101-125)

'Zoe Coombs Marr is a multi-award-winning standup comedian, writer, director and theatre-maker. Since Trigger Warning, Zoe has retired Dave and returned to standup as herself. Whereas Trigger Warning was about public shaming, which again is a lot about the audience: how do you manifest that idea in the space through the framework the jokes hang off? Even when I'm making theatre, I'm aiming to making the audience laugh.' (Publication abstract)
The Critic in the Episode 'Guilt' Jana Perkovic , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , September no. 31 2016; (p. 5-7) The Best of The Lifted Brow Volume Two 2017; ' "I stood there examining my body beneath the stream of water and decided, I don't want my body anymore. I was terrified of it, I didn't know what had been in it, if it had been contaminated, who had touched it. I wanted to take off my body like a jacket and leave it at the hospital with everything else. On that morning, all that I was told was that I had been found behind a dumpster, potentially penetrated by a stranger, and that I should get retested for HIV because results don't always show up immediately. But for now, I should go home and get back to my normal life. Imagine stepping back into the world with only that information."' (Publication abstract)
Australian Theatre 2016 : The 10 Most Groundbreaking Shows by Women Jane Howard , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 21 December 2016;
Australian Theatre 2016 : The 10 Most Groundbreaking Shows by Women Jane Howard , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 21 December 2016;
The Critic in the Episode 'Guilt' Jana Perkovic , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , September no. 31 2016; (p. 5-7) The Best of The Lifted Brow Volume Two 2017; ' "I stood there examining my body beneath the stream of water and decided, I don't want my body anymore. I was terrified of it, I didn't know what had been in it, if it had been contaminated, who had touched it. I wanted to take off my body like a jacket and leave it at the hospital with everything else. On that morning, all that I was told was that I had been found behind a dumpster, potentially penetrated by a stranger, and that I should get retested for HIV because results don't always show up immediately. But for now, I should go home and get back to my normal life. Imagine stepping back into the world with only that information."' (Publication abstract)
Interview With Zoe Coombs Marr Miles O'Neil , 2019 single work interview
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 75 2019; (p. 101-125)

'Zoe Coombs Marr is a multi-award-winning standup comedian, writer, director and theatre-maker. Since Trigger Warning, Zoe has retired Dave and returned to standup as herself. Whereas Trigger Warning was about public shaming, which again is a lot about the audience: how do you manifest that idea in the space through the framework the jokes hang off? Even when I'm making theatre, I'm aiming to making the audience laugh.' (Publication abstract)
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