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The Art House Presents
THE LISTIES
110% READY
Written & Performed by The Listies
In this show The Listies perform a miracle! 110% Ready sees Rich and Matt do something no family in Australia has ever done before: LEAVE THE HOUSE ON TIME!!!!!!!!!
Well, that’s what Rich thinks anyway. Matt on the other hand has a different plan. He may or may not have accidentally flushed the car keys down the toilet.
Featuring a poop-load of puns, silly slapstick sight gags, and a splash of improvisational idiocy, 110% Ready sees Melbourne’s masters of mirth do what they do best for 55 solid minutes of full family lols.
This brand-new show is all about the joys of the average morning routine: sleeping through the alarm, not having any milk, fishing dirty clothes out of the hamper, burning the toast, and then finding the front door is glued shut, the shower won’t switch off, and the house is filling with water.
Dedicated to anyone who has ever been in charge of someone who is impossible to get out the front door in the am.
For School Group Bookings please email: [email protected]
For the 6PM show come dressed in your cosiest, comfiest, and coolest pyjamas to add to the fun. The Listies will be the silliest PJ Party pals you’ve ever had! *Mums and Dads are expected to join in too!
This show was written on the lands of the Kulin Nation. The 2025 tour has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
Cast & Creatives
Writers/Performers: Richard Higgins & Matthew Kelly
Dramaturg: Mish Grigor
Lighting Designer: Richard Vabre
Costumes and Soft Props: Roxanne Walker
Set Design elements: Brooke Painter
Sound Designer: The Listies, Jacinta Anderson with additional sound by Russell Goldsmith
Monster Creator: Matthew Aberline
The Listies are Richard Higgins and Matthew Kelly, a comedy double act who are serious about being silly. They formed during the latest Ice Age (2008) to perform absurdist comedy to elderly people (i.e. 18+) but switched to full time kids comedy in 2011, and finding it to be a wondrous and rewarding sphere full of joy, and have never looked back (plus the hours are heaps better).
To date, they have claimed to have written nine-ish award-winning & critically acclaimed live shows, collaborated with most major theatre companies and festivals in Australia, toured three continents, recorded four albums, and published two books with Penguin - and they have four books on the way. Though we only have their word for it. Oh, and their podcast has over 60 episodes and 350,000 downloads but most of them are Matt’s Dad trying to work out how to use the internet.
On Australian television you can see them on ABC with their shows Art Blast, What’s With The Listies, The Listies Work For Peanuts, and occasionally in the background of outside weather broadcasts.
They performed over 120 shows a year to tens of thousands of people all over Australia and the UK. Nearly all of them stayed awake and only some of them vomited. Recently, in what may have been an administrative error, they won the Best Children’s Show at the Melbourne Fringe Festival.
In the past they have received a Sydney Theatre Award, ‘The HarperCollins Best Designed Children’s Fiction Book’, and the Best Independent show (Golden Gibbo Award) at Melbourne International Comedy Festival, (and they are still the only kids act to have been nommed for the Comedy Festival’s ‘Best Show’ award).
Reviews
“If your kids have never been to the theatre before, do them a favour and make this their first experience. It’s something they will never forget.” The Scotsman
“If the Wiggles are The Eagles then The Listies are the Sex Pistols” Dave O’Neil, The Age
“Nobody else does Kids comedy this brilliantly, what’s more astounding is that adults have just as much fun.” The Age
“The Listies know all the right buttons to push to make children shriek with laughter” The Guardian
