Loose Canon Arts
In 1999 Liesel Badorrek founded Loose Canon Arts, a company through which she continues to make new work. For the better part of twenty years Loose Canon Arts toured in Australia, but more significantly through Asia and the Middle East, presenting performances, taking workshops and conducting residencies in Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, Jordan, Thailand, Brunei, Singapore and Indonesia.
Much of this work was in both local and international schools. In a performance style leaning very much into physical theatre and clowning, the company created original Storytelling and Vaudeville-style performances for Primary school students as well as Performance Poetry and bold, irreverent adaptations of Shakespeare for Senior students. The company also devised and performed cabarets for public audiences. With Loose Canon Arts, Liesel also created and performed in Monkeyshines and Darlingwood Tales for the Sydney Opera House, Trash Alchemy, Purse of the Mummy and the cabarets Hardboiled Lolly and Schneckenudel which also toured to Singapore, Shanghai and Hong Kong. Loose Canon Arts also worked extensively with the City of Sydney to create multiple public performance artworks for city-wide festivals and events.
Monkeyshines
“We relished in the silly songs, live theatre and the mix of delightfully shady, completely unique, wacky and engaging characters. Keep an open mind though, it’s refreshingly different and definitely not a Disney-style production.”
~ KIDsize Living
“… a bobby dazzler of a zippy, zany side-show spectacular performed for a rapt and riveted audience. This Sydney two-some, onstage with Sideshow Pony the accompanist, have well-honed dramatic skills and a gloriously silly vaudevillian funny bone. Old shtick glows fresh …..It's a terrific show.”
~ Samela Harris The Advertiser
Darlingwood Tales
“Darlingwood Tales is a contemporary urban fairytale suffused with Goon Show humour and populated by a gallery of smartly observed oddballs. This wacky whodunit hits the spot.”
~ Jason Blake, Sydney Morning Herald
Trash Alchemy
“A trippy adventure for family audiences, this ingenious one-hander features a lone boy, performed by Johnny Nasser, and a whole lot of glorious rubbish. From the supermarket aisle to the belly of a whale, Trash Alchemy is one person’s magnificent journey to change the way we live in the world.”
– Arts on tour