Miseryguts: The Return of Bert Misery

Nobody has the blues like a former teacher and out of work writer.
The ex-lead singer of legendary indy Melbourne 1990s post folk-punk rock cabaret duo, Bert Misery and the Miserytones, is back.
Bert Misery is returning to musical satire after twenty-five years because, shockingly, it is a more promising industry than tertiary education.
In the post-apocalyptic, pre-AI environment of our contemporary information economy, Bert is on a mission to spread simple undergraduate education disguised as jokes and songs.
Join Bert for 50 minutes of obscure b-sides and songs from the new album, MiseryGuts: The Return of Bert Misery, because "they" don't want you to.

Presenting Artist or Company
Bert Misery is a character written and performed by Dr Robert Reid, PhD.
Dr Rob is a Ballarat based theatre maker, musician, playwright and theatre critic. They have been making theatre and live performance in Melbourne and around the country for more than thirty years.
Dr Rob was the Artistic Director of independent theatre company, theatre in decay in 2000 and the immersive theatre company Pop Up Playground in 2011. Their plays, The Joy of Text and On the Production of Monsters were presented by the Melbourne Theatre Company in 2011 and 2012. They have a PhD in Australian theatre history and co-founded WitnessPerformance.com with Alison Croggon.
From 2009 to 2020 they were a lecturer and course coordinator at Monash, VCA and Deakin universities until these courses were closed by funding cuts and the pandemic.
Dr Rob is developing Bert Misery as a new character for performance in stand up comedy and theatre spaces.