Review – Tina C’s Australian Tour
Tina C. is the alter-ego of British comedian Christopher Green and is like a cross between Tina Turner
and a Southern Baptist Preacher.
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Review – Craig Hill – Why Don’t You Come Down The Front?
How many times in a gig do you think you’d need to be reminded that the man in the hot pink kilt parading in front of you is gay? Hill himself seemed to think that constantly reminding his audience of it was the best possible use of his time on stage.
Review – The Brothers Pitt
The Brothers Pitt is advertised as family friendly – truer words could not be said of it. A light-hearted and amusing family circus based act, the show is largely aimed at children, but hits home for the parents too, with the occasional “wink-wink nudge-nudge” moment that will (hopefully) go over the heads of the little ones.
Review – The Upside-Down Girl
Anya Anastasia, of cabaret group Bird Wizdom, makes her solo debut in this delightful piece of cabaret that showcases the artist’s stellar talent in both singing and song-writing.
Review – The Terrible Infants
The music is high octane, big band inspired and loud. The props, costumes, staging are all very akin to a travelling circus. The brilliant use of everyday objects to create larger than life babies or a swarm of bees is also very clever.
Review – Morgan & West: Time Travelling Magicians
Morgan and West are time travellers. But they’re not just your ordinary run-of-the-mill temporal passengers, no ma’am, they are also spiffing magicians.
Sundog [UK]
Perhaps not meaty enough to be described as food for the soul, the classical minimalism of Arthur Jeffes’ Sun Dog project is nourishing nonetheless. Violinist Oli Langford soars to magnificent crescendos to a hypnotic rhythm of piano and light drumming, and all is well with the world.
The Pigram Brothers [Australia]
Delivering hoarsly whispered odes to the great sunburnt land, the Pigram brothers pull off nice enough indigenous flavoured country tunes, but unfortunately seem to go on and on with little variation, much like the outback itself.
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Picture Box Orchestra [Australia]
An interesting experiment in blending classical western and indian musical styles and instruments, Picture Box Orchestra’s Friday night slot was unfortunately ruined by two things unrelated to the music itself.
Staff Benda Bilili [Democratic Republic of Congo]
Yes, even in wheelchairs, African men dance better than white guys.
The Barons of Tang [Australia]
We guessed that they were from Eastern Europe. They turned out to be from Melbourne. I guess we were half right.
Review – The Origin of Species…
If all science was taught this way at school, maybe I’d be working for NASA today.
Review – His Ghostly Heart
While the concept isn’t completely unheard of, theatre in the dark is still a rarely used technique. And even rarer still is the correct execution. But under Martha Lott’s direction, this performance is completely, even unnaturally so, in the dark.
Review – Amuse-Bouche
Amuse-Bouche has brilliant production values. There’s multiple screens, different camera angles and funny and interactive games. The band is also very good with their timing. This show almost feels like a talk show on TV.
Review – Dr Brown Brown Brown Brown
Heckler can safely say that we were out-heckled by the people in this audience – the kids! They just loved Dr. Brown.
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