Australian actor stuck at sea turns cabin fever into chat show comedy

"I thought it was a great premise for comedy," he says. "The words cabin fever were being bandied around with everyone staying at home and I was in an actual cabin. So I did a little chat to camera with terrible lighting, just me but in different shirts."

Beginning as a study in nothingness it has morphed into a series attracting hundreds of views, as Fairley ponders walking up and down all the ship's staircases, the wealth of parsnip soup at dinner, sporadic noises that "sound like an on-board pewter factory" and if his cabin has a ghost after his soap disappeared from the bathroom.By day 17 Fairley had started filming make-up tutorials wearing a wig, tennis sweatbands and a bathrobe.

"I thought that even if one person understood that nothingness was something that we all share that would be good," he says. "I've started a Dogme 95 style, based on the Danish film group from the 1990s, where every prop or costume has to already be in the room. I've really loved doing it cause it's so stupid."

As the days passed Fairley also expanded his connections on-board, making friends with crew, joining the on-board radio station as a co-host and, during the ship's Anzac Day commemorative service, reading a passage for the wreath-laying."That changed what Anzac Day meant to me," he says. "It was something I'd never thought I'd do and it felt entirely different. It was weirdly moving.

Fairley is still on-board, one of two Australian entertainers on the ship, and still unaware of any plans to be repatriated. He has 15 shows in the second series of"In one of them I cry," he says. "It was on the day we were exiled. I started feeling enormously sad, real raw. I'm not sure if I'll publish that yet."

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