Julia Rorke WIP - Redemption Era

2018 Golden Gibbo Award - Melbourne International Comedy Festival - Nominee

2018 Adelaide Fringe Emerging Artist Award - The Adelaide Fringe Festival - Nominee

'This was the funniest show I’ve seen at this year’s Fringe so far — it might be an absurdist masterpiece. ★★★★' Adelaide Advertiser

‘Explosive, unrelenting and painfully relatable, Rorke brings out the best and worst (but mostly the worst) in all of us; leaving her audience doubled over with laughter and questioning whether they hate them themselves or their noisy, sweary self-help guru more. ★★★★’ YEWTH Adelaide

'This is a really fast-paced, incredibly funny show that is well and truly worth enlightening yourself with. ★★★★' Beat Magazine Melbourne

'Viciously hilarious, it’s so fast and relentless, it’s near overwhelming at times. ★★★★' Daily Review Melbourne

‘The show is thrillingly confessional and truly funny in its oddness. While hundreds of shows a year proclaim to allow a comedian to ‘reveal their true self’, Rorke's show is perhaps unintentionally revolutionary- It is undoubtedly recommended viewing and a memorable experience amongst a sea of stand-ups striving towards the creative heights of TV panel shows. As a comedy show, the laughs are thin on the ground, but as a baffling character study performed by a gripping on-stage presence, it is a sensation. ★★★’ The Skinny Edinburgh

‘The trouble with leaving early is you will mess what she does next, and what she does is often fascinating’ Fest Mag Edinburgh

all past and current work:

www.juliarorke.com

Redemption Era:

This is the Chat GPT description of my show:

"Redemption Era" is a stand-up comedy and storytelling show that chronicles the speaker's journey through internal turmoil and self-destruction.

After giving away a significant sum of money to a manifestation coach, the speaker moves to London with almost no funds, following advice from psychics.

Struggling to find traditional employment due to a previous criminal convictions, lack of experience and resorting to unconventional means of income such as erotic massage and welfare payments, the speaker faces challenges adjusting to a new life. Despite attempts to pursue regular employment, including a stint as a nanny for a high-profile family, the speaker finds themselves unemployed again, contemplating a return to sex work.

Amidst this chaos, the speaker begins studying Jewish Kabbalah, hoping to transform their negative traits and overcome their destructive tendencies. However, this journey towards redemption proves to be more difficult than expected. The show promises to take the audience on a humorous yet introspective journey from adversity to potential success, highlighting the speaker's struggles and aspirations for a better future."'

My version:

A standup/storytelling tail(or maybe, tale?) about the culmination of my internal destruction.

I moved to London with no money after giving the 15,000AUD my grandparents gave me to a manifestation coach in March 2023 because i was so tired of 12 years of getting so close to significant career success to have it seemling repeatedly escape my grasp by a small whisker of a feather. My original flight was for Feb 2023 but then I moved my flight 4 times and got in an argument with the flight centre travel agent.

I got on a flight on September 11, 2023 (haha it is true).

I had not had a roommate nor had a form of income other than erotic massage and welfare payments for the last 3 years so being in close proximity with others as an abnormal person and working a regular job was somewhat foreign (read: unfathomable).

However I was arrested for shoplifting makeup and sashimi(hot girl loot) from Australia’s most expensive supermarket 3 days before I flew out of Sydney so the jobs that you need a DBS check for I couldn't get. I finally (not before a few funny (read: wayward) BDSM web camming incidents) got a job as a nanny for the Australian Prime Minister’s Press Secretary through Gumtree where they weren’t doing DBS or reference checks (they were too busy but they would live to regret this)

This lasted 8 weeks; I told the 13 year old girl to stop acting like a prostitute (rich I know) used the Dad’s card to buy drinks and stole seven of their bath towels.

They went back to Australia for Christmas break and I never heard from them again.

Then I got a job in a Cafe and couldn’t seem, to simply, do the job.

I was now unemployed and contemplated becoming a hooker again because as it stood it seemed I was only capable of making people laugh, cry or c*m.

Nothing more, nothing less.

However, in tandem to all of this, in January I started studdying the Jewish Kabbalah, which made me realise I have many negative traits that have contributed to my life long struggle with destruction and disaster.

Kabbalah teaches you must transform your negativity if you want to rid negativity from ur reality,

When i’m sitting in class listening to the Rav, I am extremely inspired, motivated and enthralled;

i’m thinking ‘wow when I stop calling people fucked cunts or when I stop judging cunts or when or when I stop thinking everyone is a fucken idiot and I am God then maybe I can finally get what I want’.

You would think that just by becoming aware of this information I would automatically take heed of this blessed advice and transform my entire life so as to get myself out of the gutter.

But Alas,

It is proving to be much more difficult than anticipated,

Please follow me on this journey as I attempt to confront my most difficult tendencies

to go from Rags to Riches

from the Brothel to Netflix

from Prison to Forest Gate

www.juliarorke.com