THE MUSEUM OF THIS MORNING
| Dates: Times: Venue: Tickets: | 8 May 2021 6.00pm, 8.00pm Raglan Old School Arts Centre, 5 Stewart St, Raglan $10, $20, $30, $40 – Pay What You Can Tickets are available at the door, or from www.bit.do/RaglanTMTM |
Australian improv champion Jim Fishwick has adopted Aotearoa as his new home.
Since arriving during Level 4 Lockdown last year, he has been hidden away in
Kirkiriroa Hamilton, tinkering and experimenting with his latest one-man show, which is coming to Raglan after debuting at the Wellington Fringe earlier this year.
Billed as an interactive storytelling show, Fishwick will collate the audience’s real-life experiences of the things they did that day into a lightning-fast, one-time-only museum exhibition. The show has been tested around the country, including in Hamilton, in Christchurch and in Wellington, where a preview won the audience vote at improv competition Late Night Knife Fight. ‘I’m endlessly fascinated by the small details of people’s lives,’ says Fishwick, ‘and I’m excited to draw equally on my museum and improvisation skills to honour the everyday beauty and truth of what I find.’
Fishwick is no stranger to making things up on the spot. At age 11, he attended a Theatresports show and instantly fell in love with the art form. He went to show after show and started participating at the age of 15. By the time he was 17, Fishwick was performing in bars, honing his skills in spontaneous comedy. He taught and directed an improv program at the University of Sydney for several years and won the Australian National Improvisation Championship in 2017. His role as curator of Museum of This Morning is partly inspired by his real-life job as a museum curator, most recently at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne.
After a year spent living apart, he and his Kiwi wife are thankful to be reunited in New Zealand. ‘I am immensely grateful to be in Aotearoa, and have loved my time in Hamilton. I can’t wait to hear people’s stories in this interactive format,’ says Fishwick. In his spare time, Fishwick is developing several other new interactive, improvised and immersive theatre shows, which he plans to bring to life later this year.
The Museum of This Morning is on at the Raglan Old School Arts Centre on Saturday 8 May. Tickets are available at the door, or from www.bit.do/RaglanTMTM