Hannah Camilleri – What I'm Going For

Within the first five minutes of What I’m Going For, Hannah Camilleri had fully dealt with the elephant in the room; the rampant success of her Most Outstanding Show-nominated and Pinder prize-winning show Lolly Bag (2023).

So how can she live up to the hype?! How can she address the – inaccurate – suggestion that Lolly Bag was over-hyped (too strange, too reliant on audience participation, too prone to breaking the fourth wall)?!

Camilleri confronts all these queries through a clever conceit which, for the sake of enjoyment, best be kept secret. Suffice it to say, she had the audience in fits of incredulous and hysterical laughter from the off. To her usual cast of sketch characters, Camilleri has added a new persona of unusual realism, whose grounded nature only exaggerates the hilarity of the demands she makes of the audience members she interacts with. Lolly Bag die-hards will be thrilled to know that Camilleri also revives certain moustache-toting, baseball cap-toting mechanics.

Camilleri and her director Dylan Murphy have achieved something very special with this show!