Monday, March 31, 2014
Making a show that is deliberately cringe worthy is not as easy as the creators of Wolf Creek The Musical seem to think. They tick a lot of the boxes, but at the end of the show I walked o…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:00PMCredible Likeable Superstar Role Model had me in tears at the beginning and at the end and in the middle. All good tears; it’s a work that doesn’t just talk about optimism and al…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PMI know it’s a brave call, but if you can only see one show at the Comedy Festival, make it More Tape from The Boy With Tape on His Face. It’s pure joy; like mainlining a rainbow.…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:00AMSunday, March 30, 2014
After dodging the noise and smoke to climb the three flights of stairs to the comedy venue at the Elephant and Wheelbarrow hotel, I was ready to sit down and have a good laugh. I wasn’t …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:00PMShane and David of The Umbilical Brothers are incredibly good at a few very captivating skills. They have amazing use of physical movement and mime comedy. They are, in my opinion, unparalle…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PMI unabashedly and unashamedly love dad jokes. This means that I love one-liners in every shape and form. Tim Vine is the king of the one-liner so The Tim Vine Chat Show is the perfect show i…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:52AMSaturday, March 29, 2014
In Rock God Joel Creasey recounts stories of his run-ins with celebrities, politicians, football teams, regional towns and his parents. He tells us that his mum once heckled him. Hope that y…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PMFriday, March 28, 2014
Dr Professor Neal Portenza won Best Comedt at the 2012 Melbourne Fringe, was a nominee for the 2011 Golden Gibbo at MICF and sold out athe the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe. He doesn’t like po…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PMThe Melbourne International Comedy Festival is off and running. There’s only one way to do it: go hard, be brave and know that The Supper Inn will be open at midnight when you haven’t ha…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:54AMThursday, March 27, 2014
Adelaide loved Han’s cabaret Like A German but he’s a Melbourne Comedy Festival virgin. With a band called The Ungrateful Bastards, dancers called The Lucky Bitches, an endles…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PMMy uterus is still reacting to The Rabble’s Frankenstein. I say it every time, but no one makes theatre like The Rabble does and Frankenstein is stretching their own boundaries far e…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:54AMWednesday, March 26, 2014
If anyone says that Ben McKenzie is uncool, they will have to answer to me! But if they say that Ben McKenzie is Uncool is cool, then that’s cool. Ben’s done lots of shows with o…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PMTuesday, March 25, 2014
I walked, gingerly, into the North Melbourne Town Hall late on Saturday afternoon with absolutely no idea what to expect. It was week two of Melbourne’s first Festival of Live Art (FOLA). …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:14PMBy the end of it’s 2013 Melbourne Fringe season, it was impossible to get a ticket to Isabel and Rachel’s show Edge!. It went on to win Best Comedy of the Fringe and won lots of …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PMMonday, March 24, 2014
When the Honest Conman (Nicholas J Johnson) offers games, treats and balloon animals, you won’t be ripped off. He’s teaming up with ventriloquist Sarah Jones for a Pajama Party…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PMBlood Brothers revolves around a pair of twins, Mickey and Edward, who are separated from birth. The children’s lives are told through the frame of a series of collisions between binary op…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:00AMSunday, March 23, 2014
Alex de la Rambelje is one of A Modern Deception, who return to MICF with Gentlemen of Deceipt. The three gents (Alex, Vyom and Luke) met at Monash university and continue to throw magic, …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PMAny one who saw Lally Katz’s super-gorgeous Stories I Want to Tell You in Person heard about her writing of Neighbourhood Watch, and will be thrilled that the MTC have brought us t…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:19AMFriday, March 21, 2014
Rama Nicholas’s MICF show is After Ever After, a solo show with 15 characters that’s all about what happens when the fairytale is over. She also offers an brilliant list of show…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:45PMWednesday, March 19, 2014
Kyle Kinane is heading to Australia, from the USA, for the first time. He’s described in the MICF guide as “the bearded man at the bar you’ll share a beer with and chat about p…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PMTuesday, March 18, 2014
Mockingbird Theatre continue to give us memorable text-on-stage productions of the plays that we wish we’d seen the original productions of, and give performers the chance to play role…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:37AMMonday, March 17, 2014
Adrienne Truscott is well known and loved in Australia as half of the Wau Wau Sisters, but she’s solo and without a trapeze for her MICF show. Asking For it: A One-Lady Rape About Com…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PMSaturday, March 15, 2014
Coulrophobia: fear of clowns. If you’ve never been scared of clowns and their silly red noses, you will be by the end of The Long Pigs. Rejected and broken by their own kind, the thre…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PMFriday, March 14, 2014
ANOTHER circus show in a Speigeltent… Surely we’ve seen it all? Hell, no! Empire captures everything that makes the intimacy of these mirrored tents so special and combines it …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:00PMThomas Jaspers’s MICF show is God, Save the Queen. It’s about him growing up in a nursing homer where most of his friends were little old ladies who taught him to fall in love wi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PMThursday, March 13, 2014
Steen Raskopolos won Best Newcomer at the 2013 Sydney Comedy Festival and was nominated as Best Newcomer at the 2013 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. He’s back in Melbourne for…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PMTuesday, March 11, 2014
It’s not long until the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. With so many shows to choose from, it’s always a good idea to see shows and artists you haven’t seen before…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PMSunday, March 9, 2014
Melbourne’s counting down to the 26 March when the Melbourne International Comedy Festival takes over the city for 25 days of flyering on Swanston Street, late nights on work days and …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:00PMFriday, March 7, 2014
Robert Menzies nervously faces the audience dressed as a priest. He explains how the night’s performance of The Government Inspector was meant to be The Philadelphia Story but it&#…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:51PMSunday, March 2, 2014
Neda Rahmani tells stories about her family. Her stories aren’t extraordinary. Good stories rarely are. But they are honest and open and share the good times and the bad. What is ext…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:28AMFriday, February 14, 2014
Cock immediately demands attention and begs for jokes that are too easy. Yes, this Cock satisfies and I’d go for the ride again. Now let’s move on. First seen in 2009, the titl…
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