Review – EastEnd Cabaret: Dirty Talk
[EastEnd Cabaret offer] saucy, classy, daring and accessible entertainment that leaves you with plenty to tell your workmates about in the lunchroom the next day.
Category: Adelaide Fringe 2014
Review – Katie Noonan & Circa: Love-Song-Circus
Love-Song-Circus is powerful, uplifting and gut-wrenchingly beautiful. Noonan gives voice to the long-unspoken stories of the female pioneers of Australian stoicism.
Review – A Nightmare On Love Street
Add to this a Freddie Krueger rap from a Nightmare on Elm Street, featuring dubious sexual references “not in the backdoor” and you have a vastly inappropriate and often hilarious show. The show is not perfect, but the delivery is and Christine and Phelan excel.
Review – FOMO
FOMO: The Fear of Missing Out is a hilarious, theatrical sketch-comedy not to be missed.
Review – Kraken
[Kraken] is hilarious, charming and unique in about equal measure. A thing to be seen.
Review – Angus Hodge: Finding My Rose-Coloured Glasses
An up-and-comer to look out for, Hodge is sure to delight, and will hopefully return next year with even more stories.
Review – Worst Side Story
The humour was spot on. A bit outlandish and crude at times but set up well, earning groans and surprised laughter.
Review – Papillon
This show is just pure simple fun. Each component is delivered with a shot of comedy that keeps you giggling between gasps.
Review – The Kransky Sisters: Piece of Cake
Musical comedy acts can be a bit of a risk – too often, performers have one or two well-known good songs and a lot of mediocre filler. This is assuredly not the case here.
Review – Wagons
Henry Wagons’ charisma is what really makes this show, so it will be interesting to see how it translates to a studio album. Next time they’re in town, I highly recommend catching their gig. Strap yourself in. Wagons is one helluva ride.
Review – The Umbilical Brothers: A KiDs ShoW (Not Suitable for Children)
Concluding that only “perverts” would attend a kids show without bringing their children along, the duo change up their show halfway through to make it appeal to perverted sensibilities, resulting in a night of drug use, mass-murder, incest, infanticide and child molestation jokes.
Review – Sameena Zehra: Tea With Terrorists
Tea With Terrorists is one of the more unique comedy shows going around this year, and with a little editing would be one of the best offerings around as well.
Review – Craig Hill: Tartan About!
it became apparent that [Craig Hill is] really not a fan of Aussie accents. Or maybe he is, but only as fodder with which to constantly insult the audience. As in, “Your accent couldn’t make you sound more like a knuckle dragger”, or, more simply, “Your accent is mingin'”
Review – Wake in Fright
Based on the novel by Kenneth Cook, Wake in Fright tells the story of a young and cultured teacher who is eager to escape the confines of the city over his summer break. Becoming stranded in the mining township of Bundanyabba, and gambling away his already meagre wages, audiences witness teacher John Grant quickly enter a booze-fuelled downward spiral.
Review – Paul Foot: Words
[Paul Foot’s] minutely detailed rants revealed an intellectual acuity finely tooled to the deconstruction of the ridiculous habits and bigotries of polite society.
