BONNIE Davies features twice in the Blue Room’s Solo Spot series this year with her second piece proving the most challenging.
The West Leederville stand- up comic will perform her own piece – Please Don’t Die Before Me, So You Can Come To My Funeral – in the first week of The Blue Room’s Theatre 21 Nights of Summer and has written The Door for Nadia Collins to perform.
“I find it easier to perform my own work because it’s hard to write for someone else who has been collaborating with me,” Davies said.
“It’s the first time I’ve worked with Nadia but I’ve admired her from a distance and she was the first person I asked to perform the piece.”
The Door is about a 100-year-old door upset that people living in the house are taking life for granted.
He is in love with one of the residents and is frustrated he can only ever go forwards and not backwards, when the other room mates can go where they want.
“It’s a comment on how we don’t appreciate how much we have around us,” Davies explained.
“There’s lots of exciting things happening in every day life that we don’t notice.”
Davies wrote the original quirky script at the age of 17 while the rest of her classmates wrote about monsters, rapists, murderers and super heroes.
“I found those topics boring because that’s where everyone was looking for excitement,” she said.
Performing at Solo Spot would allow her to act in front of an audience dissimilar to her usual comedy spectators.
Solo Spot will feature 25 never-before-seen acts from Feb 20 to March 20. Shows start at 8pm. Tickets are $15. Call 9227 7005 or visit www.blueroom.org.au.