July 22, 2025 • 6 mins
ECHO, lands in Canberra with a twist!
Each performance features a new actor, reading the script for the first time from a sealed envelope. With no rehearsals and no one knowing what comes next, it’s a thrilling, unrepeatable night of surprise and suspense.
Rod and Gabi were joined by one of the 4 ECHO actors Nathalie Morris to chat about the experience hitting the stage from tomorrow (July 24th - 26th)
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
See what four point seven's Rod and Gabby. Great to
have you on board this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I am so fascinated by one person shows. Yes, because
the focus required.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
To do this.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Who was it, Natalie Bass, Natalie Bassingthway came in here
and she said she's She didn't say she'd done it all.
I said, you've done this done at all, you know,
with the music and the acting and the TV and
the film and now the stage. She said, I've never
had a greater challenge in my career than the one
woman show she was doing. She Valentine fantastic. Everyone loves
(00:35):
standing ovations at the Campra theat and I thought that
was the greatest challenge until I learned of something that's
happening at the Cambra Theater. Let me tell you about this,
it says. The release from the theater says, Cambra Theater
Center can now reveal the full cast lineup for the
upcoming production of Echo, the show where each performance features
a different actor stepping onto the stage for the very
(00:58):
first time with their scrapt waiting in a sealed envelope
on the stage.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
So it's a one person show and they don't know
what the show.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Is So this, this is I think, if I give
a head around it, this is thank God you're here
with no one supporting you.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Because thank God you here. You've got the other performers
arranging you long the wat to guide you into places
for you to react terrifying. Well, this is.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
This is fantastic if you ask me, because you can't
get it wrong.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Well, there's no expectations because no one knows what's happening.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Well, it depends. It sounds like you're going in with
high expectations. I'll be going in there expecting nothing and
so anything is going to be better than that.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And so we're very lucky to be joined by.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
One of the actors. She's a camera girl who has
spent the moment the best part of the last decade
touring Australia performing Star of Bump. We watched that on
the TV one Lane Bridge Black Christmas and she's going
to be part of this show at the Camera Theater.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
It's called Echo. Hello Natalie Morris, Good morning Rod. How
are you going very well?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
How much is this like thank God you're here without
a supporting cast or have I made it more dramatic
than it needs to be.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
You've definitely made me nervous, but it is a little
bit like that. I grew up watching Thank God You're Here.
I was such a big fan of that show, so
very it's a great comparison for me.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I reckon without you know, there being a script.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
We go in as an audience with no expectations, so
I go that must you must be relaxed in that knowledge.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Gabby thinks you must be terrified.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
It's a little bit of both. It's an interesting concept
because there is a script. I just haven't read it yet.
So I will walk on stage supposedly this is what
I've sort of discerned from the Internet without trying to
dig too deeply. I'll walk on stage, and I'll open
up the script on stage, and I'll kind of go
from there. And I'm just said hoping that it will
(02:58):
be clear what I kind of have to do. But
I think that there are so many other elements that
are going to happen around me that it's going to
be like me and the audience are taken on a
journey together, and it'll be a little bit of who
I am, but a little bit of the script, a
little bit of the writer, and that's in who I
feel like is going to make some kind of appearance
potentially from Berlin in this kind of clues I've been
(03:20):
sort of picking up, like malt House just did a
season of the show, and I see their pictures come
up on my Instagram feed. Sometimes they're like, Okay, I'm
getting a sense of it's all going to come together
in this sort of magical way on the night.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
The audience.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I mean, you're a camera girl, so I I only
assume that they'll be friends and family and in this arena,
as you say you'll be taking the.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
You will be going on the journey with the audience
as well.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, like a great theater restaurant, can you involve anyone
from the audience at the end of the day, There's
no rules, right, I.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Know, I feel like my family should be quite scared.
I know they're all sitting. I think there's like one
big row in the audience that is just like thirteen
people people that I know. So yeah, I'm excited actually
to maybe interact with them. And I also know that
the play is kind of dealing with themes of you know,
(04:15):
home and where is home and migration, and so it'll
be quite exciting to be back in Canberra, you know,
my hometown and with my family kind of unpacking that stuff. Yeah,
they should be worried.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
You know the themes of the show is that is
that literally all you know?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Or is there a little bit more knowledge in the
back of your brain to work with?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
That's all I know, and that's I've only gotten that
from like reading about the show on malt House's website. Yea,
I really I don't know anything. I don't even know
what time I have to arrive at the theater. I
was like, do you have to go early? I'm like,
I don't know. I'm hoping on the.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Point I can't practice exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Like and I was like, how are you feeling getting ready?
I'm like, I don't know how to get ready for this?
What do you wear that? I will thank you? I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
This has captured our attention and imagination and I know
it has yours.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Kararchy.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
This is very, very exciting and as we said at
the start, one of the great challenges for any actor
in the world. It's called Echo. It's on at the
Canberra Theater July twenty four until the twenty sixth, and
there's a number of great actors that are accepting this challenge.
Congratulations on this fantastic adventure.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
You've gone, oh thank you, so many.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Great accolades already early in your career, but this one's
going to be a unique and special one. And we're
really excited to go on that journey with you.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Oh, thank you so much. Yes, I'm so excited, and
it is very much a once in a lifetime. My
agent was like, look, it's not something I would do,
but perhaps you'd be interested in this, and I'm like, yes,
you know me, well, so I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I would be absolutely terrified. This is my idea of nightmare.
But I love that you're taking on.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
This is just away awakening though there.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
We actually have.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Two double passes to give away too, if anyone's interested
in the like we are. No one saw it coming,
just like that thirteen ten sixty if you'd like to
pick up those those passes. Natalie can't want to see
you back at the camera theater. We won't tell you
where we're sitting because you know I'm not.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I don't want to be involved in.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I know your names.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Now, that's right. Good luck out there, break a leg
and we'll see at the Theater.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Thanks you so much, Ron and Gaby good to speak
to you.
See what four point seven's Rod and Gabby. Great to
have you on board this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I am so fascinated by one person shows. Yes, because
the focus required.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
To do this.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Who was it, Natalie Bass, Natalie Bassingthway came in here
and she said she's She didn't say she'd done it all.
I said, you've done this done at all, you know,
with the music and the acting and the TV and
the film and now the stage. She said, I've never
had a greater challenge in my career than the one
woman show she was doing. She Valentine fantastic. Everyone loves
(00:35):
standing ovations at the Campra theat and I thought that
was the greatest challenge until I learned of something that's
happening at the Cambra Theater. Let me tell you about this,
it says. The release from the theater says, Cambra Theater
Center can now reveal the full cast lineup for the
upcoming production of Echo, the show where each performance features
a different actor stepping onto the stage for the very
(00:58):
first time with their scrapt waiting in a sealed envelope
on the stage.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
So it's a one person show and they don't know
what the show.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Is So this, this is I think, if I give
a head around it, this is thank God you're here
with no one supporting you.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Because thank God you here. You've got the other performers
arranging you long the wat to guide you into places
for you to react terrifying. Well, this is.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
This is fantastic if you ask me, because you can't
get it wrong.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Well, there's no expectations because no one knows what's happening.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Well, it depends. It sounds like you're going in with
high expectations. I'll be going in there expecting nothing and
so anything is going to be better than that.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And so we're very lucky to be joined by.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
One of the actors. She's a camera girl who has
spent the moment the best part of the last decade
touring Australia performing Star of Bump. We watched that on
the TV one Lane Bridge Black Christmas and she's going
to be part of this show at the Camera Theater.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
It's called Echo. Hello Natalie Morris, Good morning Rod. How
are you going very well?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
How much is this like thank God you're here without
a supporting cast or have I made it more dramatic
than it needs to be.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
You've definitely made me nervous, but it is a little
bit like that. I grew up watching Thank God You're Here.
I was such a big fan of that show, so
very it's a great comparison for me.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I reckon without you know, there being a script.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
We go in as an audience with no expectations, so
I go that must you must be relaxed in that knowledge.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Gabby thinks you must be terrified.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
It's a little bit of both. It's an interesting concept
because there is a script. I just haven't read it yet.
So I will walk on stage supposedly this is what
I've sort of discerned from the Internet without trying to
dig too deeply. I'll walk on stage, and I'll open
up the script on stage, and I'll kind of go
from there. And I'm just said hoping that it will
(02:58):
be clear what I kind of have to do. But
I think that there are so many other elements that
are going to happen around me that it's going to
be like me and the audience are taken on a
journey together, and it'll be a little bit of who
I am, but a little bit of the script, a
little bit of the writer, and that's in who I
feel like is going to make some kind of appearance
potentially from Berlin in this kind of clues I've been
(03:20):
sort of picking up, like malt House just did a
season of the show, and I see their pictures come
up on my Instagram feed. Sometimes they're like, Okay, I'm
getting a sense of it's all going to come together
in this sort of magical way on the night.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
The audience.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I mean, you're a camera girl, so I I only
assume that they'll be friends and family and in this arena,
as you say you'll be taking the.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
You will be going on the journey with the audience
as well.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, like a great theater restaurant, can you involve anyone
from the audience at the end of the day, There's
no rules, right, I.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Know, I feel like my family should be quite scared.
I know they're all sitting. I think there's like one
big row in the audience that is just like thirteen
people people that I know. So yeah, I'm excited actually
to maybe interact with them. And I also know that
the play is kind of dealing with themes of you know,
(04:15):
home and where is home and migration, and so it'll
be quite exciting to be back in Canberra, you know,
my hometown and with my family kind of unpacking that stuff. Yeah,
they should be worried.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
You know the themes of the show is that is
that literally all you know?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Or is there a little bit more knowledge in the
back of your brain to work with?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
That's all I know, and that's I've only gotten that
from like reading about the show on malt House's website. Yea,
I really I don't know anything. I don't even know
what time I have to arrive at the theater. I
was like, do you have to go early? I'm like,
I don't know. I'm hoping on the.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Point I can't practice exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Like and I was like, how are you feeling getting ready?
I'm like, I don't know how to get ready for this?
What do you wear that? I will thank you? I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
This has captured our attention and imagination and I know
it has yours.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Kararchy.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
This is very, very exciting and as we said at
the start, one of the great challenges for any actor
in the world. It's called Echo. It's on at the
Canberra Theater July twenty four until the twenty sixth, and
there's a number of great actors that are accepting this challenge.
Congratulations on this fantastic adventure.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
You've gone, oh thank you, so many.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Great accolades already early in your career, but this one's
going to be a unique and special one. And we're
really excited to go on that journey with you.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Oh, thank you so much. Yes, I'm so excited, and
it is very much a once in a lifetime. My
agent was like, look, it's not something I would do,
but perhaps you'd be interested in this, and I'm like, yes,
you know me, well, so I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I would be absolutely terrified. This is my idea of nightmare.
But I love that you're taking on.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
This is just away awakening though there.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
We actually have.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Two double passes to give away too, if anyone's interested
in the like we are. No one saw it coming,
just like that thirteen ten sixty if you'd like to
pick up those those passes. Natalie can't want to see
you back at the camera theater. We won't tell you
where we're sitting because you know I'm not.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I don't want to be involved in.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I know your names.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Now, that's right. Good luck out there, break a leg
and we'll see at the Theater.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Thanks you so much, Ron and Gaby good to speak
to you.
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