Review – Stephen K Amos: What Does the K Stand for?
With eloquence and wit, Amos tackles everyday social issues from racism and identity to puberty and heartbreak, all the while building to his reveal of this elusive K.
Author: heckler
Review – Demi Lardner: Limbless Cagefighter
Demi’s delivery is flawless. She often sets up anecdotes and at the last minute twists them into unexpected punch lines that are not only very funny but a little bit evil too.
Review – Sparrow-Folk: Nested Confessions
The women quickly drew the audience into their act, and didn’t let them go for the whole show. They were charming… funny, sweet and a little bit thought provoking.
Review – 5-Step Guide to Being German
Paco has a cheeky, self-referential style of humour that kept the audience almost constantly laughing.
Review – HolePunch
The acrobatics were impressive and quite funny to watch, the monologues were quirky in deliverance, the strip tease was just awkward enough not to be confronting or gratuitous, and the set was just simplistic enough to give it a real office feel.
Review – Impact
[Davies’s] strong, expressive voice, hollow eyes, sad face and bravado are testament to his acting ability, but why oh why he chose to bring his script on stage in a one man show is unfathomable – just wing it!
Review – Fright or Flight
Experimental and bizarre circus that is as captivating as Fright or Flight is as rare as hen’s teeth. You will laugh at the parley between the kooky characters. You will be enthralled by the aerial acrobatics and bottle balancing. You will want to buy the soundtrack. And you will definitely want to take these weird creatures under your wing.
Review – Jason Chong: Stay Puft
[Chongy] would love nothing more than for you think of him as a mate telling you a funny story at the pub, except your mate is 2009’s Adelaide Comedian of the Year and still punching strong.
Interview – Hanggai
Beijing-based Mongolian throat-singing folk/rock/metal outfit Hanggai returned to WOMAD for a third time this Friday night. Heckler sat down with band member Ayalguu to talk about Metallica, laughter, and the importance of world music.
Review – Bel Canto Bowie
Pasqualina and Maria Maria are two Roman Catholic Italian choir girls who develop a devotion to Bowie that soon overtakes their devotion to God. Something about this analogy of Bowie as a literal lord and saviour will hold a strong appeal for anyone who has at some point in their lives experienced a Bowie fixation.
Review – Puppetry of the Penis
The bits where naked men scrunched their genitals up into weird shapes are actually the least awkward part.
Review – Beer .v. Wine Degustation Dinner
Barossa Valley Brewing… create a degustation dinner with a difference. Each of the divine five courses is paired with both a wine and a beer, with the question put to the diners: which beverage really compliments the course the best? And it really was a tough challenge.
Review – Wendy House
The proclaimed Breakfast Club correlation is accurate in an angst-ridden and you’ll-probably-connect-with-it-if-you-see-it-in-your-teens kind of way; however, Wendy House is more of a hybrid between John Marsden’s When the War Began series and, at a stretch, the Hunger Games.
Review – I Might Be Edgar Allan Poe
As [Dawson Nichols] shuffles onto the stage in the dim light of a flickering lantern and softly whispers, “I think I might be Edgar Allen Poe,” you know you are about to be transported to a hauntingly strange, poignantly dark, and fiercely funny world.
Review – A Beam Of Golden Sunlight Illuminates The Lone Figure Of Chris Knight Amid The Colossal Wreckage Of Our Once-Great Civilisation
There is something infectious in the humour of this lively performer that endeared him to everyone with a warm-hearted show that easily outshone many more professional performers at the Fringe.
What the masses said