Review – Gravity Boots: Can you believe we’re in a forest?
Can You Believe We’re In A Forest is subtly disturbing and extremely funny, usually at the same time.
Author: heckler
Review – The Syndicate
Ever wanted to join a club where the secret handshake involves jazz hands and a paddle? Let the Syndicate initiate you into their world of mental penetration, terrifying talents and gasp-worthy stunts.
Review – Luminous
Luminous is black-light luminescent body-art, burlesque and circus show, and while you may be able to see any of these a thousand times at other venues throughout the city, you will not see them together like this.
Review – Dave Campbell: Insanarchy
Dave Campbell is a bit of a contradiction and a bit of a riddle and a whole lot of funny.
Review – Elixir
The duo adopt the personas of two scientists/test subjects, held captive in a laboratory for the purposes of ascertaining how effective a variety of elixirs are in improving their physical attributes. This is a perfect narrative structure, given the impressive array of acrobatic feats that the artists perform throughout the hour long show.
Review – Deception
Now. I am not a pushover. You can’t just pull the wool over my eyes. I pride myself on knowing. I’m usually the one saying, “Oh, can you see the strings?” In this case, I didn’t know how you did it. And I liked that. I liked it a lot.
Review – Chopper’s Big Fucken Late Show: Garden the Fuck Up!
Here’s a public service announcement: if the title of the show has “fuck” in it twice, and starts at 11PM, don’t expect it to be pre-schooler appropriate!
Review – 50 Years of Doctor Who: Preachrs Podcast Live 2!
By the end of the show, the room was erupting with laughter, and many stayed behind to chat with the hosts and take pictures with the life sized props from the series – sure signs of a successful show!
Review – Best of the Fest Late Show
heckler doesn’t often post 800 word reviews, but when you’re looking at this calibre of talent it can’t really be helped.
Review – 5:30 Show
While the boys showed promise, they weren’t performing to what would have been their target audience – Gen X and Y – as the crowd consisted of mostly older people. There were funny moments but the jokes fell short the majority of the time and the biggest laugh that was received was prompted by an obviously bored audience member.
Review – Simon Taylor: Funny
Taylor has travelled extensively, and is able to effectively juxtapose his international cultural perspective with local experiences.
Review – Floating Melodies: Music and Wine on the Popeye
When [Emma Knights] suspended the Popeye under the King William Street bridge, the beautifully live acoustics provided by the cavernous space proved her point that there are other venues suited to the performance of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” or Puccini’s “Turrandot”.
10 Quick Qs – Amy Michaels
We sat Amy Michaels down for an interview (or, at least, another woman by the same name) and asked her the tough questions.
Review – Jon Brooks: Shitegeist
At once concerned with both the pursuit of truth and faecal discharge, his pacey performance is both reflective and refreshing, rather like the experience of taking a healthy poo (except instead of being left with a turd we find a golden bar of comedy).
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