Review – Miss Conlin Confesses
Carla has a vibrant stage presence and a playful affinity for the risqué. She is honest enough to share in her ambitions and insecurities, and cheeky enough to drop a pianist joke.
Category: Reviews
Review – Stuperstition
The greatest trick Stuperstition pulls off is that it indulges your doubts as a rational person, with jokes about homeopathy and references to the scientific method, and then whacks you on the side of the head with confounding illusions.
Review – Metropolis
This low-budget film is not the most thrilling political drama you’ll see, but thanks to believable performances and competent direction it makes for an accessible illustration of city-life in modern San Pablo.
Review – Foreign Objects
All told, Foreign Objects is a decent round-up of three confident and talented (if not ground-breaking) comedians.
Review – Occupy White People
Occupy White People is an illuminating exploration of issues of race in Australia, told through a very funny and talented comedian.
Review – Le Foulard
Le Foulard plays the long joke, the humour cooking over in a slow boil that plays tension against relief as Lucy builds towards the laughs.
Review – Loaded Heart
When I saw the description for this show as ‘physical theatre’, I immediately thought, ‘ooooh, circus!’.
Review – The Girl Who Won’t Grow Up
Girl Who Won’t Grow Up is surprisingly quirky and refreshingly unique; a top-notch show from an emerging local talent.
Review – Dungeon Crawl
Put on your robe and wizard hat, because the brothers from Shaolin Punk have come to the Fringe to weave some improvisational comedy magic.
Review – A Grizzly Took My Bébé
You’d kinda hope that if you flew four comedians to Australia all the way from the Arctic, you’d give them a stage with some aircon so they don’t melt in the 40 degree heat.
Review – Abigoliah Schamaun: Girl Going to Hell
This is punk rock comedy: shocking, minimalist, energetic, honest, and a mess of fucking fun.
Womad – Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba
Celebrated Malinese musician Bassekou Kouyaté leads a quartet of Ngoni…
Review – Between the Lines
Geordie Little’s debut Fringe show ‘Between the Lines’ is a forum for you to sit, listen and watch in awe as this one guy gets layers of sound out of one instrument.
Review – Bane
Joe Bone plays Bruce Bane, a hard-boiled detective working outside the law to bring his righteous fury on the criminal underworld.
