430 stories by "Anne-Marie Peard"
I 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…
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…
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…
The 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 had ti…
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 …
My 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 f…
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…
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). We…
By 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 …
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 P…
Blood 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 oppo…
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 mag…
Any 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 brou…
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 sh…
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 pas…
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…
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 C…
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 th…
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…
Thomas 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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
