Three friends of murdered comedian Eurydice Dixon are bringing her planned show to the Melbourne Fringe Festival with the goals of sharing her “inconvenient empathy” with the city.
The Age reports Dixon, who was raped and murdered in Melbourne last year while walking home from a comedy show, intended to write a show about the tensions of being an avowed feminist who agrees with select arguments from the men’s rights movement.
It would have been a logical progression in the career of a young comic whose work didn’t shy away from complex social issues.
Beautiful, clever, funny Eurydice Dixon at her gig at Highlander last Tuesday. RIP. #eurydicedixon pic.twitter.com/ivcbL2DmSs
— Paula Ferrari (@paulaferrari_oz) June 14, 2018
Now, Inconvenient Empathy is slated for a run of Fringe shows, after it was completed by comics Greg ‘Duff’ Duffield, Sofie Prints and Andrew Roberts.
“You really just don’t know what Eurydice would have wanted,” Duff told the paper, but added “it’s just so important to keep her unique mind and spirit alive.”
A blurb for the show states the trio is “deeply committed to exploring the concept of “inconvenient empathy”, and doing it the best possible justice, but on some level would have liked if Eurydice had just wanted to do show about ducks.”
Inconvenient Empathy will be performed at the Old Ballroom at Trades Hall, Carlton, on Thursday September 19. The one-night-only show will have free entry.
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