Format

7 x 10-minute audio plays

About

Nikki is the Broth Bitch—famous for her bad-ass broths, author of edgy cook books, and the global face of Soup for Change. She’s trying to win back a fanbase with her 7-day ‘Just Fucking Love Yourself’ soup program, free via podcast.

The 7 x humourous podcasts are released daily from Monday 23 November 2020, as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival 2020.

Creative team

Lead artist and Writer Michele Lee

Director Ming-Zhu Hii

Dramaturg Jessica Bellamy

Sound Design and Composition by Russell Goldsmith

Performer Maia Thomas

Graphic design Tammy Winter

Photography Ming-Zhu Hii

Thanks to consultations from Julia Gaulton, Jane Ly, Micheline Lee, Hanna Cormick and Chrissie Robinson

Production and development

2020: developed and presented in the Melbourne Fringe Festival 12-29 November 2020

2020: Vitalstatistix Adhocracy residency

Supporters

Melbourne Fringe Festival, Vitalstatistix and the Australia Council for the Arts

Reviews

Lee’s writing does a good job of sounding like one woman’s stream-of-consciousness podcasting, but it’s technical and accomplished. The way little things Nikki says casually give away so much of her back story is masterful, and the performance by Thomas feels very real. The nuanced attention to detail in the telling of this story and the minimalist approach to “staging” it, as it were, with a few sparse diegetic sound effects, speaks to the precise directorial eye of Hii - Witness