Dough. Used for baking bread and pastries.
D'oh! A catchphrase used by Homer Simpson. But for the purpose of this show, let's stick with Dough.
Dough!
And that is the name of Hannah Fallowfield and Alex Thew's new Melbourne Fringe Festival show, Dough!
As
with many important ideas, the concept of this show was developed
through having the right conversation with the right person. In this
case, it was Fallowfield and Thew finding dough (bread) and d'oh! to be a
funny pair of homophones and wanting to see what happened when they
brought the two together. And then money joined the party.
Part of the research for the show involved immersing themselves in The Simpsons,
something that Fallowfield had (shockingly) never seen! "We sat down
and watched the first 4-5 episodes of the first season, which was great.
I didn't realise how wholesome the early episodes were, so that was a
pleasant and unexpected learning. In my mind they were this
dysfunctional family that hated each other, but at least in the early
seasons that doesn't seem to be the case," Fallowfield tells me.