13th - 18th September 7:30pm
				The Barry Award – nominated show for the best of the 2010 Melbourne Comedy Festival returns, for a strictly limited and very timely season. Damian Callinan is looking for recruits for the Bodgy Creek Football Team … but not where you might expect! Poor old Bodgy Creek has seen better days – sadly typical of hollowed-out rural towns all over Australia, the townsfolk are unable to field even one complete football side for the local footy club. So the club will either have to fold or merge with their arch rivals - The Hudson’s Flat Redbacks. But prodigal son, coach Troy Carrington, has other ideas.  To save the club and serve his socially aware agenda, he embarks on a program to recruit players from the Asylum Seekers Refuge Centre. Will the new players cope with pre season training whilst fasting for Ramadan?; The Merger was the third show for which Damian Callinan has been nominated for the prestigious Melbourne Comedy Festival Barry Award. After selling out season in Adelaide and Melbourne and featuring on the Comedy Festival Gala on Network Ten, Damian’s been touring it extensively, recently returning from the back blocks of Western Australia. Before setting off on another, extensive tour of regional Victoria, Damian brings the show back to metro Melbourne for a strictly limited season – just in time for AFL finals week! “Television executives be told: With Bodgy Creek Football Club, Damian Callinan has created a ready-to-go one-man sitcom, offering credible characters and a funny, sometimes touching, script. It could be the next Summer Heights High.” – Chortle "...stirs your soul while jolting the funny bone." Footy Almanac
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