TRIAL BY MONKEY: the gameshow

Presented by: ST JOHN MCKAY

New Zealander St. John McKay, writer/director/solo performer of ‘Trial by Monkey’, has lived all over the world — from Argentina to Iceland, Japan to the USA — making work that tackles dark and difficult issues we prefer to look away from, in a quest to turn heads and shift the needle. St. John has had a range of pieces in several international Fringe Festivals, but has been working on the tragic tale of Pauline Campbell for 4 years, calling it a particularly personal work: “When I was a baby my mother went to prison for 6 months, and she’s never told another soul the details of what she calls ‘that time in hell’. Over my strange life I’ve had tiny periods in jail cells myself, in 5 countries … And I can understand why.”
Presented at Melbourne Fringe, Icelandic Fringe, among others.