Lee Bemrose

LATEST ARTICLES ( 359 )

• Stephen House Interview, Almost Face To Face

  

  Stephen House, Almost Face To Face. Written by Lee BemroseAlmost Face To Faceis the latest dramatic monologue from peripatetic award-winning writer/performer... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Master Class, 45 Downstairs, Review

  

  Master ClassReviewed by Lee Bemrose.Initially, I confused Maria Callas with Diamanda Galas. The latter, I thought, would be a great subject for a play. Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Conversations With Our Customers: Oh Lord

  

  A guy places his coffee order. I ask him if he wants a copy of the receipt. He says, "Yes, I should take it or my boss might get angry. Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Silver Screen Daydream

  (c) Lee Bemrose, obv.And just as suddenly as she had come into his life, she was gone. For a while Ewan was in a mild state of shock. Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Coca-Cola Amatil... The Day Of The Muppets.

  

  Coca Cola, you Goddamned muppets.So looking forward to ending the friendship. So looking forward to not seeing this fridge taking up valuable floor space.Did I... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Hamas and Israel

  Israel... Hamas... war-mongering fuckheads who hate peace. Who never want peace. Who want to bomb the shit out of each other. Who want to bomb the shit out of... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Conversations With Our Customers - Awesomness!

  I know what Lou is really singing about, but it's a song that can also apply to less troublesome things, to nice things.Gorgeous day today. Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Purgatorio by 5pound Theatre, Review

  

  Purgatorio Reviewed by Lee Bemrose for Australian StageI admit to not knowing very much about this play prior to seeing it. I remember seeing Death And The... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Long Spindly Arms

  

  This is a very bizarre photo of me. I look like a humanoid alien with anorexia in the top half of my body.Water-affected visuals aside, this is me enjoying the... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Conversations With Our Customers: The Soup, The Hug, The Scooter Dude

  Strictly speaking, he wasn't a customer, but he promised that one day he would be.New member of Team Awesome, Alyx, sits outside and has a bowl of The Dreaded... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• A Fucking Post About A Stuck Fucking Key. Fucking Fuck Etc.

  

  Under-staffed, blackout just as lunch service starts, and just to finish off the day, this. Fucking key gets stuck in the fucking fire escape door. Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Conversations With Our Customers: That Time Warren Ellis Came Into The Cafe

  So there was this time I was having a chat with Warren Ellis in Grumpy The Dreaded One's Little Cafe Of Awesome and...well that's all, really. Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Game Of Thrones With Fluffiness and Cameron Diaz.

  

  "The pizza appears to be late."Okay. So I really quite like Game Of Thrones. I like the adventure. I like the rousing stories and the larger than life... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• I Bitched and Moaned About Having to Do Cafe Stuff This w...

  

  I bitched and moaned about having to do cafe stuff this weekend (our third weekend of not doing six day weeks for the past eight months), but bloody hell, what ... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Conversations With Our Customers: The Soup, It's Good.

  Sweeping through the cafe, I saw a table that needed to be cleared. The couple had finished eating and were talking, I told them I'd clear the plate and soup... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Your Dream Menage A Trois

  

  Dead chicks I'd have a threesome with: Dora Maar, Gertrude Bell, and Amelia Earhart. (I booked in an extra in case one of the others couldn't make it).These... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Why In The Hell Has There Never Been A Movie Made About Gertrude Bell?

  

  Everyone knows about Lawrence Of Arabia, but who knows about Gertrude Bell? I didn't, until now. What an extraordinary woman. Why the hell has no one ever made ... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Conversations With Our Customers: The Dropped Spoon

  

  The customer was an imposing figure to say the least. One of those very large but shapely bodies, low cut top oozing the purest essence of buxom. Dark clothes.... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Not So Common

  A few weeks ago at one of our favourite Sunday lunch destinations, The Dreaded One and I found ourselves talking to the owner, a lovely person by the name of Jo. Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Our First Critic Didn't Hate Us... Hoorah!

  

  Here is a link to our first, anonymous serious review, from Brian Ward at Fitzroyalty. We haven't invited reviewers in, and quite frankly I don't want to know... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2014 SELF EXPRESSION