Profit & Delight

Profit & Delight

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Profit & Delight
Profit & Delight
Dark Stars

Dark Stars

Part 1: Two African-American performers travel to Australasia a century apart. Each comes face to face with the true cost, and questionable value, of their lust for fame.

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Jan 07, 2022
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The Challenge

This whole show, and all the characters, are performed entirely by one man, Jonathan Council in one of the most imaginative and charming solo performances you’ll ever see.

Irving Sayles,1886 & Jonathan Council, 2012

Here and Now

NARRATOR Hi. My name is Jonathan Council, and I will be your theatrical tour guide this evening as we search the southern sky to discover the whereabouts of two dark stars:

Irving Sayles and me.

Dark stars are, as the name suggests, very difficult to see. The light they give off is entrapped by the force of their own gravitational field.

What connects Irving and me is the realisation that in order to be everything we truly want to be, we have to leave America and travel to the other side of the world.

Irving Sayles and I are also very far apart, both in terms of time and magnitude.

Irving Sayles is an African American performer from the late nineteenth-century who becomes the premiere star of the Australasian Vaudeville stage.

I am an actor. I appear on st…

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