Review – Simon Taylor: Funny
Taylor has travelled extensively, and is able to effectively juxtapose his international cultural perspective with local experiences.
Category: Festivals
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).
Review – 50 Shades of Gay
There’s singing, dancing, twerking, and even the showdown between Kylie and Dannii Minogue that we’ve all secretly been dying to see happen.
Review – In Vogue: Songs by Madonna
Griffiths has a beautifully rich and deep singing voice. Paired with his own skilful piano accompaniment, his covers of the pop diva’s classics are totally unforgettable and, at times, haunting.
Review – Advertising Death
You’ll laugh, you’ll gasp, you’ll bop your head along to the music, and you might even question your sexuality after the priest performs a hauntingly erotic strip tease.
Review – The Mile High Club
From a particularly adorable story about a dad joke going too far, to a man realising his dream of participating in a threesome with a married couple, all the way through to a character comedian who reminded me of every delusional safety officer I’ve ever worked with, the laughs were always forth coming.
Review – Absolutely AUCSome II
As the night was working towards its crescendo the untapped energy of the audience began to become uncontainable, so much so that even the sixty-year-olds rocked out to the last song, Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky”.
Review – Wolf Creek: The Musical
Hilariously self-aware, the cast unexpectedly shine through the catchy musical numbers and witty jokes.
Review – 5pound theatre’s Ubu Roi
The set is striking; performed outdoors in an ankle-deep pit of mud, the first row of the audience is provided with plastic sheets to protect from the splatter. It’s a brilliant feature… there’s something undeniably and viscerally satisfying in watching people quite literally slinging mud at each other.
Review – We’re Kind Of A Big Deal
I laughed. Loudly. It was a little venue. That can be embarrassing.
Review – Mickey D: GOLD
Mickey D doesn’t carefully construct clever jokes, but more seems to start talking in the hope that it eventually ends up somewhere funny – luckily, it almost always does.
Review – Aussie Hunks Australia: Fullmonty All Male Review Show
Some of the performers were far better at dancing than others, but they were all very polite as they simulated oral sex on audience members and shimmied their junk in the faces of their volunteers.
