‘Every Single Detail’
Sydney Comedy Festival
“Katie and Grace are back with new and old tales that span their 12 year friendship. Now both over 30, Katie is a part-time sexist and Grace has realised pub trivia is a thing for your 20’s. From turbo singles stories, successful isolationships and growing wine consumption from pandemic unemployment. Their on-brand confessional style stories are ever present as they prepare to tell you Every. Single. Detail.
Following on from sell out season of “Katie & Grace’s Hour of Power” at Sydney Fringe Comedy 2019, stellar seasons of “Katie & Grace’s Hour of Power” and “Katie & Grace’s Hour of Power: With Friends” at the Flight Path Theatre as well as a mid pandemic Zoom show “Katie & Grace: In conversation” as part of Adelaide Fringe View 2020. Katie and Grace will make you cringe all over again but you’ll be reminded that life ain’t all that bad with your best friend by your side.
“Painfully relatable, hilarious and extremely real; this show made me smile so much my cheeks hurt” Theatre Travels.”
Interview: Katie Lees and Grace Rouvray (Hour of Power) – Theatre Travels
“Why is this a production that a 2020 audience cannot miss?
Katie: Because 2020 is a wonderful time where women and other people who haven’t had the stage are now grabbing the mike and saying ‘listen to me!’
Grace: Because it’s a great time to be a woman and have a platform to share stories in an unapologetic manner. […]
“When was the turning point for you when you realised that theatre was not just a hobby but a passion? How did you go about making it your career and is there any one show that you can attribute this to?“
Katie: I’d known for a long time being on stage was something I wanted to do as a living not a hobby. Making my previous one woman show Temporary showed me that it is possible to make your own work. Hour of Power has changed my career because in trying something new has made me realise that I want to move away from traditional acting and more into creating my own work through stand up comedy.
Grace: I was one of those annoying over extraverted children who told anyone who would listen (even when they didn’t listen) that I was going to be an actor one day. I have since simmered down A LOT and discovered a whole bunch of other things I like to do in this industry like write and produce as well as perform. So something that stands out for me is the show that I wrote and created called 600 Bottles of Wine, it premiered on the BBC in 2018.
Read more on Theatre Travels
Hour of Power review – The Curb
January 21st, 2020 by Travis Johnson (excerpt):
“Reviewing stand up comedy is a tricky bit of business, comedy as a whole being an extremely subjective artform. The only real test, all politics and cultural assumptions aside, is “Did I laugh?” Well yes, yes I did. I laughed like a drain. I imagine you will too.”
Read the full review on The Curb
Events
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Hour of Power – Katie & Grace Comedy, Sydney Fringe Festival
28th, 30th August & 1st September, 2019, The Factory Theatre
“From religious guilt to the climax noises of short lived love affairs, Katie and Grace will share with you their best nick names, worst jobs and ego damaging confessional stories in a very special Hour of Power.”
– Sydney Fringe Festival guide, 2019
Katie Lees 