Review – Paul Foot: Words
[Paul Foot’s] minutely detailed rants revealed an intellectual acuity finely tooled to the deconstruction of the ridiculous habits and bigotries of polite society.
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Review – Dumb Things: A Tribute to Paul Kelly
A troupe of playful, skilled local musicians led by Jimmy Meegan and The Mirrors paid tribute last Saturday to arguably Australia’s greatest songwriter. The night ran in two brackets, during which the group rotated singers almost...
Review – Adam Richard: Gaypocalypse
Adam Richard’s comedy career has been long and rich. Spanning over twenty years, and including stand-up, radio and now television, many fresh young comics would die to know what his secret is. It’s simple, he’s really funny.
Review – Notoriously Yours
After having sex with a man she met on Tindr, a woman is taken in by the government for questioning – her anonymous lover was a whistleblower, wanted for threats to national security. She finds herself embroiled in a contemporary spy drama, manipulated by agents to help them bring down a suspected crime ring in Singapore.
Review – #hashtag
#hastag provides the shy and introverted, but social-media extrovert, the ability to control a merry band of comediennes by commanding them to do your will with the tap of a key.
Review – Jamie MacDowell and Tom Thum
The two have obvious chemistry despite the occasional awkwardness, and it’s easy to see that they’re good mates having a laugh. This went down well with the audience, with plenty of laughs gained from their clumsy interactions, weird sounds (including a donkey smoking a bong) and clever lyrics.
Review – Stephen K Amos: What Does the K Stand for?
With eloquence and wit, Amos tackles everyday social issues from racism and identity to puberty and heartbreak, all the while building to his reveal of this elusive K.
Review – Demi Lardner: Limbless Cagefighter
Demi’s delivery is flawless. She often sets up anecdotes and at the last minute twists them into unexpected punch lines that are not only very funny but a little bit evil too.
Review – Sparrow-Folk: Nested Confessions
The women quickly drew the audience into their act, and didn’t let them go for the whole show. They were charming… funny, sweet and a little bit thought provoking.
Review – 5-Step Guide to Being German
Paco has a cheeky, self-referential style of humour that kept the audience almost constantly laughing.
Review – HolePunch
The acrobatics were impressive and quite funny to watch, the monologues were quirky in deliverance, the strip tease was just awkward enough not to be confronting or gratuitous, and the set was just simplistic enough to give it a real office feel.
Review – Impact
[Davies’s] strong, expressive voice, hollow eyes, sad face and bravado are testament to his acting ability, but why oh why he chose to bring his script on stage in a one man show is unfathomable – just wing it!
Review – Fright or Flight
Experimental and bizarre circus that is as captivating as Fright or Flight is as rare as hen’s teeth. You will laugh at the parley between the kooky characters. You will be enthralled by the aerial acrobatics and bottle balancing. You will want to buy the soundtrack. And you will definitely want to take these weird creatures under your wing.
Review – Jason Chong: Stay Puft
[Chongy] would love nothing more than for you think of him as a mate telling you a funny story at the pub, except your mate is 2009’s Adelaide Comedian of the Year and still punching strong.
Review – Bel Canto Bowie
Pasqualina and Maria Maria are two Roman Catholic Italian choir girls who develop a devotion to Bowie that soon overtakes their devotion to God. Something about this analogy of Bowie as a literal lord and saviour will hold a strong appeal for anyone who has at some point in their lives experienced a Bowie fixation.
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