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: Theatre
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 – 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.
Womad – Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba
Celebrated Malinese musician Bassekou Kouyaté leads a quartet of Ngoni…
Review – Bane
Joe Bone plays Bruce Bane, a hard-boiled detective working outside the law to bring his righteous fury on the criminal underworld.
Review – Doku Rai – You, Dead Man, I Don’t Believe You
A feverish descent into East Timor’s heart of darkness, Doku Rai is a unsettling mixture of traditional myth, discordant grunge rock and black comedy.
Review – Altar Ego
Altar Ego is a series of vignettes about marriage and relationships, told by both genders. Some were incredibly funny, others almost deadly serious.
Review – Agnes of God
Agnes of God quickly establishes its premise: a young nun is found in her quarters, bleeding and alone, having apparently murdered her new-born baby.
Review – Animal Farm
I’ll admit that I was entirely dubious about a one-man show of a story entirely about animals- the logistics just seemed too complicated to be a success. But Guy Masterson’s solo take on Orwell’s classic Animal Farm quelled those doubts within minutes.
Review – EastEnd Cabaret: Notoriously Kinky
EastEnd Cabaret were one of our favourite acts last year and with good bloody reason too.
