The Debutante Diaries - Mean Girls meets Carrie comedy!

Debutante’s debut at The Don The Debutante Diaries, a humorous show about high school comes to the Don Russell Performing Arts Centre as part of its national tour on Saturday 20 June at 8pm. This multi award-winning comedy follows the trials and tribulations of a suburban Australian high school community preparing for that teenage rite of passage – the debutante ball. The Debutante Diaries takes audiences back to their high school days, where the scent of Impulse deodorant and decomposing sandwiches still linger in the air, as performer Kate McLennan plays a range of ‘debzillas’ hilariously navigating their way through adolescence. The audience meets the dubious debutante ball organiser, Mr “Call me Guy” Gerrity, who is trying to top last year’s controversially-themed ‘Burlesque Deb’. Then there’s the manic perfectionist, Chrystelle with her ‘Fairytale Deb’ scrapbook. Stacey, the school bitch and beauty queen, along with the character of Sophie, who with her honest and touching diary entries, take us back to our own high school days where we were all kids trying desperately to find our place. The Debutante Diaries, Kate McLennan’s one-woman show, was the overwhelming success story of the 2007 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The show received rave reviews, playing to packed houses night after night – and received a prestigious Barry Award nomination, the Comedy Festival’s top gong for Best Show. The Debutante Diaries also took out the award for Best Comedy and Best Newcomer in the 2006 Melbourne Fringe along with a Best Comedy nomination for the South Australian Theatre Guide Awards. Kate McLennan has been working as an actor and writer for theatre, television and radio for eight years. She recently completed work as a writer and performer on Michael Chamberlin and Charlie Pickering’s news satire The Mansion, screened on Foxtel’s The Comedy Channel. McLennan is a regular performer on the Melbourne comedy scene, performing her trademark characters at various comedy clubs and for the Melbourne Comedy Festival Roadshow. She has also written, performed and directed pieces for the Melbourne Short and Sweet Festival, having received a Best Actress nomination in 2007.