![]() ![]() I wouldn’t say there’s a hierarchy per se, but there’s definitely a culture… This is a thing that guys do in locker rooms and pubs. You learn from a master, you teach your mentees… It seems like there’s a real culture of masculine bonding through this show. I think we’re gonna go to Europe next Fall. We’ve been travelling around for a while. The show is still running there with a couple of other guys. Yeah, we’ve been doing the show since 2015 in Vegas. You and Barry have been doing the show together in Vegas for quite a while… I’ve taken a couple of breaks from the show to do some musicals, but pretty much full-time I do Puppetry. My degree was in musical theatre, so I had a different sort of career to most of my working-extra friends who work in musical theatre. I grew up in a dance studio, and dance was always a part of my life. Was your background in performance? Have you always been interested in theatre? ![]() I’ve not done any private parties since there. And it was difficult to do the tricks because you’re on a moving vehicle – I need two hands to do most of the tricks. I just got dressed and kind of hung out with them. When you’re doing a private party, you’ve only got enough material to do about fifteen or twenty minutes’ worth of tricks, so I had 45 minutes of waiting. It was Coney Island, too, so it was like an hour-long ride into Manhattan. The Maid of Honour had hired me, the bride-to-be didn’t know I was there, it was around five o’clock, no one was drinking… I was young, and I didn’t have the showmanship skills I hope I have now. I was hired to pop out of a bathroom on a party bus. Have you come around to private parties since then? What went wrong that first time? A six-week off-Broadway contract turned into a nine-year career for me. I’m not going to do any more.” And they said, “Well, how does off-Broadway sound for six weeks?”. I was asked to do private parties – I did one private party and it went terribly. I thought, “I know how to do ! I’ll go so I have the story to tell – that I auditioned for Puppetry of the Penis.” That was in 2009. The next year, I moved to New York, and they were having auditions. At one of my parties he just dropped his pants and started doing some tricks for people, and I just thought it was the funniest thing I’d ever seen, and so I had him teach me how to do some of the tricks. ![]() A friend of mine had seen the show when it was touring the States, and he bought a little how-to book on how to do the tricks. The show’s been around for 21 years, and I was familiar with the show when I was in college. We do a little warm-up on stage, and if we have a big week – we maybe do six shows in a week – I’m very happy to have a day off to not be tugging on my tackle. You know, to be honest, it’s not as difficult to do the tricks as one might think. What’s the physical training regime like? I imagine there’s a whole physical endurance aspect to the show. ![]() We were here last year and it was just the best. You’ve got an Australian tour and the Perth Comedy Festival coming up… ZOE KILBOURN had a chat to Richard ahead of Puppetry‘s WA tour, which kicks off in Albany on Wednesday, May 9, plays at the Regal Theatre in Subiaco on May 11 and 12 for Perth Comedy Festival), and wraps up in Mandurah on Saturday, May 13. The show’s shamelessly silly larrikinism has struck an intercontinental chord, and American puppeteers Barry Brisco and Richard Binning – nine-year veterans of “Genital Origami” – are taking their sell-out Vegas variation back to Puppetry‘s home shores. Puppetry of the Penis continues to charm Australian audiences after 20 years, multinational performer rotations, and a Mick Molloy documentary. ![]()
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