John Paul Hussey is a sagacious and very funny man, he’s a writer and storyteller. He looks like a cross between Dr Evil from Mike Myer’s Austin Powers and Lord Varys from Game of Thrones.

Hussey can look like anyone. He just needs a wig and he has many, a costume and he has many, and a character and he has many.

He was for a period the arts writer for Neos Kosmos English Edition, an Irish comedian in a Greek paper, it can’t really get funnier.

“A lot of my material was formed in Neos Kosmos,” says Hussey.

“The Neos Kosmos and Il Globo offices next to each other, it was amazing outside as the Italian and Greek journalists smoked… a slice of the Adriatic and Mediterranean in Fitzroy” says Hussey.

“I connected with the Greeks, their intensity, their argumentativeness, their constant engagement with argument, the politics, the philosophy, followed by liaise fare, live for the day, attitude – very Irish really” says Hussey.

Says Hussey “Another thing that brings the Irish and the Greeks together is our love for story-telling stories, that’s our thing.”

It was in Neos Kosmos that John Paul Hussey formed his personal comedic interpretation of Nietzsche’s Apollonian and Dionysian dichotomy.

Hussey’s many characters are fashioned on Apollonian and Dionysian traits, personified by Armani and Versace as personality types, added to Lord of the Rings inhabitants.

“An Apollonian, Armani, Elf will be monochromatic, cool, stripped back personality, all clean lines and white space,” Hussey says.

“Whereas someone like you, is Dionysian, Versace with a touch of Armani gold, flamboyant with a Euro elegance” he points to my orange trousers and raises his brows.

“Here Comes Everybody is about all my characters, the ones I created over three years coming together in a narrative arc” says Hussey.

After hosting of Lola’s Pergola at the Adelaide Arts Festival this year, Hussey immersed himself into planning, writing, and rehearsing for Here Comes Everybody, his first full stage performance since the surreal yet autobiographical one man shows, Chocolate Monkey, Space Munki and Love Monkey.

“I feel good to be on stage again, you see by the end of 2010, I had enough, I had finished nine years of shows… the Monkey series, I was feeling burned out…” he stops mid sentence.

“Then… I lost my friend and my director Lucien Savron… that hit me, he was my collaborator, my director and one of my best friends” says Hussey, sadness still evident.

Savron was known for his inspired productions at Perth’s Black Swan Theatre Company, Woyzeck at the Malthouse in Melbourne as well as the Hussey’s Chocolate Monkey and Love Monkey.

“I had to branch out… get out… research,” says Hussey.

He tried to work with various people, but just could not “get it” when he encountered Peta Hanrahan, director, dramaturge and animateur from Polyglot, and former assistant director to Julian Meyrick at the MTC on Martin Crimps’ Cruel and Tender.

“We work so well together Peta is well versed in the Lecoq style and that suits me, she’s straight-up and believes in the project which is important for me” adds Hussey.

“My characters are borne out of the Australian urban and social landscape, for example, Darryn the Official Drug Dealer for the Australian Olympic Team, Con the Economic Prophet of Doom, a Greek professional with a byzantine touch, Terry the Taol, the sensitive Cockney martial arts instructor” he says.

Darryn the spray tanned, bling wearing, expensively but gaudily dressed, boganaire represents the lethal combination of consumerism and a deficiency of style.

“Darryn is the product of what’s been happening over the last ten years in Australia, he is about our addiction to shopping, as well as the birth of the cashed up, tanned, peroxide male boganaire,” says Hussey.

All the stories in Here Comes Everybody are based on a real situation, like the one he relays the story of being picked up with no ticket and had no ID by two ticket inspectors on a train.

“One, an articulate Indian gentleman and then other was a young good looking Lebanese guy, I took out of my bag the only thing with a photo of me, a review of one of my performances and I passed it over,” Hussey says.

“They both read it, and as the Indian gentleman folded it carefully returned it to me he says in a refined Indian-English accent, ‘My cousin is bald yet I am not, why is that?’ the Lebanese guy added, ‘That’s not a bad review bro, are you like really funny?’ it was genuinely surreal” says Hussey.

Not to spoil the end of the story, simply to say that it is one of those stories that reflect the inherent goodness in humanity – we’re not too bad.

There are many other stories, like the one when George Michael propositioned him at 3am, when Hussey worked as bellhop for a large hotel chain.

Clearly everybody should be coming to Hussey’s new venture, the desire to find out about what happened with George Michael is overwhelming.

Here Comes Everybody opens at Metanoia Theatre, Brunswick Mechanics Institute, on June 5

For tickets and information go to http://metanoiatheatre.com or http://metanoiatheatre.com/wpcontent/uploads/2014/03/HERECOMESEVERYBODY1…