Review – Radio Variety Hour
This show manages to whisk you away to a simpler time, while being humorously self-aware.
Category: Adelaide Fringe 2014
Review – Late Night Comedy at The Producers Bar
Five comedians performed within the hour long show, with the stand outs being the slightly built, dapper Conan O’Brien look-a-like Rhys Nicholson and the dishevelled, gangly Englishman Neil Sinclair.
Review – Summer of Blood
I wasn’t sure if they were aiming for satire or simple comedy, but they provided no insights into the tropes they used, which is essential for satire, and the funny parts mostly stopped before we got to the halfway point.
Review – Dodgem Car Saviour
All set in his quiet home town of Batemans Bay, Daniel recalls the misadventures that led him to dream up and then abandon careers in being a boxing-ring bikini girl, the guy that gets you un-stuck on the dodgem cars, and to finally settle on stand-up comedy.
Review – Chivalrofl: A Nerd’s Comedy Quest
If you’re one of those people who doesn’t quite know what you want to do with your life, or maybe worry that you’re treading water a bit, Ryan feels like a kindred spirit. That being said, he did hope for bigger and better things in his life when he applied for Mensa. Unfortunately for him, and fortunately for comedy goers, he didn’t get in.
Review – Faulty Towers: The Dining Experience
The performance overall is expertly balanced – any more interaction and it would be tedious; any less and it wouldn’t seem complete. The set-ups and punch lines are directly reminiscent of the classic, so old-school fans will love it for that and first timers will think it comedic gold!
Review – The Bedroom Philosopher
He’s droll and self-deprecating as only a hipster who makes fun of hipsters can be, and will gladly make his own onstage shortcomings the focus of his humour.
Review – Theatresports: Clash of the Theatre Titans
The brilliant part is that it is a different show each time, deliciously unpredictable, and its marvellous watching each skit unfold or crumble as actors navigate the rules and scenarios presented to them.
Review – Decadence
A man spends time with his mistress, as his wife bangs the private investigator she had hired to follow him and plots her husband’s murder.
Review – Freewheelin’: A Bob Dylan Tribute
After each artist concluded I was sure I had found my favourite, only to once again be left astounded, as the next performance gave me an equal amount of goose bumps. A truly awe-inspiring show.
Review – The Gin Club
The seven permanent and two semi-regular members met at an open mic night in a Brisbane Irish pub, run by band member Ben Salter. They bonded over a desire to collaborate and a shared love of gin, and the rest is history.
Review – Big Band Burlesque
Five of Australia’s finest burlesque performers and American boylesque star Russell Bruner entertain audiences in their own unique way, from comic burlesque to gender-bending to downright saucy dancing and pure sexiness.
Review – Ian D Montfort: “Britain’s Most Gifted Psychic?”
The sheer incredulity of his feats mount, until, despite the fits of laughter, believers and sceptics alike are left scratching their heads and wondering what in the physical or spiritual world just happened
Review – Riot City Wrestling: Megaslam
All of the clichés were on display; the knocked down referee, the steel chair shot to the cranium, the comebacks from nowhere, the open challenge and surprise return.
Review – Hot Dub Time Machine: Big Red Button
Hot Dub Time Machine is a show with a basic philosophy: bring people together through music and dance. In order to do this the insatiable host DJ Tom Loud encourages party goers to dance, drink, sing and share the love, and every person in the Paradiso tent did just that.
