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Review: Rama Nicholas in Death Rides a Horse | Melbourne Fringe Festival
Patrick O’Duffy writes … In the Texas town of Coyote, a horse quietly grazes, whinnies and then sings a song—a song about a rootin’ tootin’ cowgirl, a flamboyant dancer and He Who Comes to All. And...
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The art of stupidity
Sabrina D’Angelo is a performance artist and comedian who recently went to London to study the art of clowning. Here, she discusses what it really takes to ‘act stupid’. ‘You are so stupid.’ This is...
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Review: Social Needia: The Epidemic | Melbourne Fringe Festival
Carmelene Greco writes … Jordana Borensztajn’s Social Needia is irrefutably honest, up-to-the minute comedy. The show is about Jordana’s struggle with social media addiction. The medical theme is...
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Review: Andy and Darcy are: Home Alone | Melbourne Fringe Festival
Mustafa Nuristani writes … All excited and ready for the show, I arrived fifteen minutes early to be told ‘doors will open at seven’, as expected. Fifteen minutes later the doors still hadn’t opened....
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Review: Raiders of the Temple of Doom’s Last Crusade | Melbourne Fringe Festival
Patrick O’Duffy writes … In 1936, two-fisted archaeologist Indiana Jones is recruited by the US Government to prevent the rising Nazi Party from getting their hands on the ancient Ark of the Covenant....
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Review: The Last Temptation of Randy | Melbourne Fringe Festival
Patrick O’Duffy writes … On an old, beat-up couch in a share house, a skinny musician with a deep voice hangs out with a wrinkly-necked muppet who looks kind of like a dong. Felt-faced Randy has a...
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Review: Songs for Europe | Melbourne Fringe Festival
Nina D. Flanagan writes … I’m a fan of Eurovision. Every year I gather a group of friends, assemble European snacks, alcohol and scorecards: the strangest acts usually get the highest points from us....
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Review: Black Faggot | Melbourne Fringe Festival
Mustafa Nuristani writes … While saying ‘black faggot’ can be difficult for some to stomach, if you can get over it, you will enjoy the show. The theatre was filling up fast as the show debuted in...
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Review: Satan’s Finest | Melbourne Fringe Festival
Alana Mitchelson writes … Mitch Alexander and Jackson Voorhaar pitch themselves as die-hard metal heads, but I can’t say the material or quality of their performance had me entirely convinced. I walked...
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Review: Lou Sanz Speaks Easy | Melbourne Fringe Festival
Patrick O’Duffy writes … Eighteen months ago, Lou Sanz was sitting pretty thanks to the success of her award-winning comedy show Neverending Storage. It should have been tours, yachts and rent boys...
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Review: Sabrina D’Angelo’s Why Do I Dream? | Melbourne Fringe Festival
Andrea Davison writes … Sabrina D’Angelo is odd. There are no two ways about it. Whether you think she is hilariously odd or just plain weird will come down to your appreciation for the absurd and your...
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Review: Dropped | Melbourne Fringe Festival
Patrick O’Duffy writes … Within a cloud of chemical smoke, two women sit in a pile of shredded paper snow, staring into nothing. Suddenly they snap into rapid-fire conversation about washing-up...
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Review: Nellie White is the Shitty Carer | Melbourne Fringe Festival
Patrick O’Duffy writes … ‘Anyone here a carer?’ asks comedian Nellie White as she kicks off her show. A few people nod or raise their hands, and she asks them whether they like it. It’s a low-key start...
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Review: Neil Sinclair’s “Charmingly Useless”| Melbourne Fringe Festival
Suzy Freeman writes … Neil Sinclair tells jokes. And he does it quite well. And he really does seem like a nice guy. If that isn’t reason enough to like him a very normal amount, then I don’t know what...
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Review: Edge! | Melbourne Fringe Festival
Suzy Freeman writes … This year’s Melbourne Fringe sees Rachel Davis and Isabel Angus of Grisabel Comedy return to the stage in their new show, Edge!. Their last offering, All of the Things, was well...
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Countdown to a comedy catalyst
Wes Gardner is part of the team behind Slutmonster and Friends, a recent Melbourne International Comedy Festival success story. Here, he writes about being on the other side of the comedy curtain and...
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Review: Come Heckle Christ | Melbourne Fringe Festival
Suzy Freeman writes … What would Jesus do? We asked, but sadly you’ll never know. At least, not until this show’s next run. Come Heckle Christ was a one-night-only show at this year’s Fringe, but given...
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Love Factually | Melbourne Fringe Festival
Love Factually is a comedy show that takes easy aim at the fetid honeypot of gross sex stories that the animal world provides. If you’re after anything more daring, this is not your scene. Because...
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On sex, gender and jokes, avoid Hollywood
Joel Checkley and Shannon Woodford are the comedy duo behind Twice Shy, a modern, comedic love story with a twist. In this article, Checkley and Woodford discuss how it is possible for a man and woman...
View ArticleReview: In conversation with John Landis: Trading Places
Mustafa Nuristani writes … For this year’s Melbourne Festival, programmer Richard Moore compiled his favourite films by John Landis, famous for flicks such as the video clip for Michael Jackson’s...
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