Does your tête-à-tête need tarting up? Frankie magazine scribe Mia Timpano (that's me!) wants to reveal the commandments of great conversation and the hidden forces at play. 

I'm diving deep into the science of how humans talk, the rules that force us to talk the way we do, and the consequences of flauting the maxims. 

My crack team of Chatty Cathies – Gabi Barton (The Town Bikes, Discordia), Aimee Carruthers (The Clams), and Camilla Walker (wordsmith extraordinaire) – and I are working our collective butts off to turn boring-arse library book research into an interactive comedy experience for you.

This show will be coming to a festival in Melbourne, oh, around about September. Put your money where my mouth is.

Image by  Bri Hammond.

Your coin is paying to get the show up and running. 

Specifically, you'll be enabling:

RESEARCH Mia spending weekend after weekend in the linguistics section of the Baillieu Library at Melbourne University, sculling coffee while madly scribbling notes

CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT Where the Chatty Cathies gather over several sessions to turn reams of dry, impenetrable, yawn-inducing research into crazy-fun live experiments and stories to make you laugh

TECHNICAL SUPPORT Paying a person to make sure you can hear us, while also not electrocuting us