Review – Heaps Good SA Showcase
At $5.33ish per comic you can’t go wrong with the Heaps Good SA Showcase.
Category: Reviews
Review – Hunter Smith: Help Me Hunter
Within the first two minutes of his show Hunter Smith threatens “loads of audience participation”. Have no fear, through, meek comedy connoisseurs. Help Me, Hunter is really just about Hunter.
Review – The DC3: The Ringtone Cycle
Unlike most of the other ‘music’ category shows at the MICF, the DC3’s ‘Ringtone Cycle’ is not a comedy group using music, but a rock concert with comedy interspersed between songs and woven in to the lyrics of the songs themselves.
Review – Asaf Gerchak: Is A Terrible Stage Name (CAN)
Gerchak is a funny dude, for sure, although his show doesn’t run as slick as bigger name comedians. Not that you should avoid seeing him based on that, his material is still very enjoyable.
Review – Mike Birbiglia: My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend (USA)
It seems like a throwaway joke of a show title, but surprisingly ‘My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend’ is a recurring theme of Mike Birbiglia’s stand up show.
Review – Gwen and John: A Melodramatic Love Story
This fast-paced, “punny” kids show will have children rolling in the aisles, parents cringing alongside them.
Review – Artbox presents Poetry in Motion – The Films of Maya Deren
Poetry in Motion is the screening of three silent films by influential 1940s avant garde film maker Maya Deren, with an improvisational trio creating the soundtrack whilst nestled around the venue, peering up at the screen.
Review – An Audience With Tomás Ford
If you like the idea of being the personal playthings of a cabaret catastrophe, ladies and gentlemen, this is your show. You will cringe, you will squirm. Then you will laugh, get wet, fall in love, trip out, and leave the venue reborn
Review – FEU
When any red-blooded woman thinks of Christain Louboutin they think shoes. Stilettos, sexy, smoking-hot shoes. When any red-blooded man thinks of the Crazy Horse they think well, they stop thinking.
Review – MKA’s Soma
It’s not often you come across an intentionally unsatisfying show, but then MKA’s Soma is a fairly unique piece of work.
Review – Farewell My Queen
You’d think that inserting a lesbian love triangle into one of the bloodiest and most turbulent events in French history would result in a gratuitous medley of sex and violence…
Review – Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
This is a remake of 1962 movie, Harakiri. They are both set in seventeenth century Japan, but the new version utilises modern 3D jiggery-pokery to impress contemporary audiences.
Review – Blinder
Considering how obsessed Australia gets about it’s football code, there’s surprising few movies about it.
Review – Neal Portenza’s Test Show. This is not a real show. Don’t even come. (Maybe do but).
Comedy’s hard, you guys, which is why Dr. Professor Neal Portenza is only doing a test run this year.
Review – In the Dark
The show takes the performer’s hopes, their dreams, their gripes and their lives, and presents them in a multi-sensory show that’s immersing and confronting.
