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"I lied to my friend about why I can't go to her wedding...... I told her I couldn't get time off work but really I just don't really like her very much." Anonymous, 12th February 2009

If you could tell your deepest darkest secret without being identified, would you? Should you?

Tawdry Heartburn's Manic Cures is a free interactive performance, installation and web-work offering you the chance to "get it off your chest".

The performance unfolds in an intimate 20 minute conversation between Tawdry Heartburn, a six-foot-five nail technician, palmist and Manic-Curist of Secrets, and a single audience member or 'client'. Surrounded by varnish, typewriters and things unsaid, Tawdry will professionally paint and polish your nails, or read your palm, while inviting you to consider divulging a secret via his collection of mechanical 'gossip machines'.

Anonymous secrets or regrets may be handwritten or typed, then placed in Tawdry's secrets boxes. At the end of each day, the boxes are emptied and contributions added to the ever expanding Wall of Secrets for passers-by to read. A selection are later posted to tawdryheartburn.com, a website documenting secrets disclosed.

Tawdry's mission in life? To achieve a world without secrets, to un-furrow the brows of millions and heal the consternation caused by unspoken truths - one set of nails at a time.



Performance history
Mar-Apr 2011 Ten Days on the Island Tasmania Tour as 'State Secrets', Tasmania
Mar 2011 WOMADelaide, Adelaide South Australia
Feb 2010 Perth International Arts Festival Beck's Music Box, Perth Western Australia
Feb 2010 Australian Performing Arts Market Space Foyer, Adelaide Festival Centre
Feb-Mar 2009 25 Summer Nights Festival, The Blue Room, Perth Western Australia
Jul-Aug 2009 Putting On An Act, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth Western Australia

James Berlyn
James Berlyn is an award-winning performing artist and teacher of twenty years experience. James has written, choreographed and performed numerous one man shows across Australia. He has also trained as a nail technician, which came in handy when creating Tawdry Heartburn's Manic Cures. Inspired by Frank Warren's Post Secret project, Tawdry Heartburn premiered in February 2009 at The Blue Room Theatre's 25 Summer Nights Festival in West Australia. It has since been performed at Putting on an Act, Perth International Arts Festival, The Australian Performing Arts Market, Ten Days on the Island and WOMAdelaide. James' most recent work involves solo performance making around notions of learning and neuroplastic adaptation.

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