Tuesday, October 7, 2014
When the geography teacher at a boys private school is off sick, it falls to Miss Fletcher (Hayley Sproull) the music teacher to fill in. As she’s not so suited to the subject matter, Miss…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:37PMMonday, October 6, 2014
The Fringe Hub has a new, informative feature this year: laminated signs marked to indicate that a performance contains certain types of scenes, such as those showing drug use, or strobe ef…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:24PMSaturday, September 27, 2014
From shows earning a walk out to those spent on the edge of one’s seat, quality varies in Fringe productions. Approaching this double-header night, I vacillated between excitement and …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:51PMMonday, September 22, 2014
In the cabaret performance Glamping with Bobby and the Pins, I can’t remember when I’ve been more entertained by such a silly show, one that − at its best − shimmers as a catwalk m…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 03:21AMSaturday, September 20, 2014
The great appeal of a fringe festival is that there’s always something to surprise, maybe even delight. With their one-person show The Bookbinder, NZ company A Trick of the Light present …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:20AMSaturday, June 21, 2014
If you thought cabaret was about show tunes, Melissa Langton’s gunning for your misconceptions in this return season of her latest creation A Singer Must Die: a show packed with drama…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:00PMThursday, June 19, 2014
What happens when three performers turn up to a show each thinking they are its star? That’s the setup for The Three of Us and poses the immediate problem of how to list the cast without…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:30PMMonday, June 2, 2014
A conventional history of modern Irish dance credits the 1994 Eurovision interval performance of Riverdance in Dublin for launching a phenomenon. It shot principal dancer and choreographer…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:14AMSunday, April 20, 2014
When tickets weren’t available for the show I was planning to see, I took a punt on former rapper Doc Brown in Of Mic and Men on the strength of his 2014 MICF gala spot. For a show promis…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:00AMFriday, April 4, 2014
Porcelain Punch’s The Travelling Medicine Show aims to recreate the times when cure-alls were spruiked from wagons with acts of physical prowess serving as testimonials to the value o…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:03PMWednesday, April 2, 2014
I don’t believe we’ve met. I’m Viscount Reginald Bassingthwaite, a professional art dealer. A Dinner to Die For is an immersive murder mystery with a three-course meal at The Retre…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:25PMFor some years I’ve enjoyed Shappi Khorsandi’s short spots on tv shows such as Just For Laughs and the MICF Comedy Gala, but I’ve never seen her live. Much of her appeal is her bouncy …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 05:00PMSunday, March 30, 2014
Bane Trilogy encompasses three stories of loner Bruce Bane (Joe Bone) and his somewhat film noir-like adventures in the shiftier parts of an American metropolis. The part of the trilogy you�…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMIn the late 1980s, I saw the Canadian musical comedy act Corky and the Juicepigs on tv. Although now I can only remember their surf-vibe song “Psychopathic Killer in the Summertime”, nos…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:21AMMonday, January 6, 2014
Alice got off to an uncertain start to her time in Wonderland, and The Australian Shakespeare Company’s outdoor musical production of Alice In Wonderland at Rippon Lea Estate had similar i…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:35AMWednesday, December 4, 2013
There are some news stories I remember years after the event. Like some 2004 reports from Palm Island, off the Queensland coast, when a man died in police custody and when the subsequent c…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:21PMMonday, November 25, 2013
Moreland Theatre Company has partnered with Winston Macadamia Smith of Winston’s Academy for Nurtured Creativity (WANC) to present A Short Course in Short Theatre: six short plays in a ran…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:04AMSaturday, November 16, 2013
At Last, The Etta James Story features singer Vika Bull and eight-piece The Essential R & B Band giving renditions of songs from James’s 57-year output. Despite her long career, this i…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:10PMTuesday, November 12, 2013
From 2014, new company Metanoia Theatre will produce a range of artforms at the Mechanics Institute in Brunswick, including an experimental and digital theatre hub. In advance of their progr…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 08:12PMThursday, October 31, 2013
Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta The Pirates of Penzance was first performed in New York on 31 December 1879. It proceeded to have a highly successful run that would fix the style of the pi…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 09:47PMTuesday, October 1, 2013
The Melbourne Fringe hosts the premiere of This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things, the new show from Gillian Cosgriff. The title comes from the parental lament that immaturity and thought…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 01:04AMMonday, September 30, 2013
One of the best aspects of a Fringe festival is the chance to partake of performance styles you don’t normally get to experience. Radio Variety Hour is a recreation of a 1950s radio show w…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 07:00PMSaturday, September 28, 2013
In 1957, the Soviet space program launched Laika the dog into orbit around Earth to collect data as a precursor to sending people into space. Sadly, the mission didn’t end well for Laika. …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:29PMLove in the Key of Britpop is a solo work written and performed by Emily Andersen. Coming from the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe, it came along at exactly the right time for me in my Melbourne Fring…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 10:53PMI was pretty excited by the prospect of Michael Burke in Cubehead, a show promising to blend the stories of the human Michael and an extraterrestrial with a Rubik’s Cube for a cranium.…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:07AMTuesday, September 24, 2013
I very much enjoyed The Last Temptation of Randy recently and it reminded me why I love fringe festivals so much. It’s shows like Pop Mashup: Happy Birthday Doctor that remind me why somet…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 04:25AMSunday, September 22, 2013
Story-telling purple puppet Randy brings his irritable, potty-mouthed facade and world premiere show The Last Temptation of Randy to Melbourne Fringe 2013. On opening night, sound cues were …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 02:00AMSaturday, September 21, 2013
Take two Ocker mates, real manly men, and have them out in the bush doing circus tricks, sometimes involving beer. That’s the setup for Three High Acrobatics’ Cirque du Bloke, where Bazz…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:27PMHeart Thy Neighbour might echo some of the casual racism displayed readily by Australians, but doesn’t have anything meaningful to say about it. The Fringe guide mention of Don’s Party s…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 12:41AMSunday, September 15, 2013
Canadian Leonard Cohen started his creative output as a poet in the 1950s, has written books and has achieved particular fame and longevity as a singer and songwriter. This is the kind of va…
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 06:36AMSunday, August 25, 2013
There’s a time to think, and then there’s a time to be carried away by performers gleefully making lots of noise. The combination of unorthodox music making and dance in Stomp ’13 – …
SOURCE: AussieTheatre at 11:38PM 
