The best laughs came from a squeaky kitchen door that interrupted proceedings, which on each occasion yielded nervous relief. When the furniture provides more laughs than the performers you know it’s a bad show.
Dion Teasdale’s Outback Homosexual Serial Killer attempts to take audiences on the journey of bank teller Devon Baxter’s descent into internalised madness, documenting his metamorphosis from a neurotic city dweller to an eccentric madman with sexually violent and homicidal tendencies.
A good show to keep you kicking on into the wee hours of the weekend. Be entertained by a well-curated set of the Fringe’s finest and lesser-known comedy acts.
While the ladies offer audiences plenty to admire, do not expect them to gyrate for your entertainment. Centre stage is instead given to eight trashy, fun and/or romantic texts – a range that includes celebrity biographies, Marquis de Sade, Stephen King and Chuck Palahniuk.
Sure, this is essentially a series of stories about a couple that liked to get high a lot; however, Lisa-Skye seems to be using these stories to hint at the duality of a person’s character and the contradictions that may exist there.
I consider myself somewhat of a connoisseur of Pride and Prejudice adaptions, sequels, re-imaginings and homages… I mention this only to give myself some authority when I say that this was a really good adaption of the novel.
This is the kind of music that keeps you warm in winter. Or on a chilly February night in Adelaide.
The quality of the musicianship of the duo is not flawless, but the songs are performed with such earnestness and evident joy that these flaws can be overlooked. Music snobs that want exact replication can pay $150 to see the great man perform in person. Music lovers, however, will enjoy the history lesson and the mere enunciation of his lyrics by a pair of musicians that have been touched the power of those words.
A Simple Space strips its circus genre down to the very bones, leaving the audience to focus on the real main attraction – the absolute skill of the performers.
These goobers are pretty cute. Even pretty funny. Sure, some of their punch lines fall a little flatter than they’d hoped, but all in all it’s a good fun show that’ll keep you chuckling in your chair – or maybe even co-starring on stage.
The witty and entertaining songs are interspaced by fast-paced banter that sounds so natural and spontaneous that at times you’re not quite sure if they’re legitimately arguing or if it’s all part of the act.
All of the attempts to create intimacy within this play are highly successful – the audience will leave feeling as though they really known these characters, like they have truly spent this special day with them.
Alchemia is guaranteed to provide different performances each night, so you will have no idea what is coming at you. However, I can say this is a discerning group that only picks the A cuts, and they will guarantee you a wonderful night of cabaret goodness.
Limbo will tease and tickle you, caress you and spank you. These guys are so hot they make porn look like Play School.
Zelenyuk has an obvious classically-trained voice, and whilst quite dissimilar from the Piaf she claimed to be, her hearty, large and varied vocal range engaged the audience as she performed well-loved renditions of “La foule”, “Milord”, “Mon Dieu”, “L’accordéoniste”, “Non, Je ne regrette rien” and “La vie en rose”.
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