Melbourne Fringe will soon be upon us. There are many theatre shows, exhibitions, interactive experiences, and showcases available to experience that one could get easily overwhelmed without a guiding hand. We at The Plus Ones have curated a guide to…
Have you ever been so keen for a show you’ve rocked up a whole week early? That’s how ready I was to see Simon Taylor Does A Whole Bunch of Cool Stuff (and even then, I still managed to arrive…
Avenue Q is the Tony Award winning Broadway musical with puppets, monsters and humans in the backstreets of New York city. The musical follows the wide eyed puppet Princeton who moves into Avenue Q after graduating college, it follows him…
One of my claims to fame is that I once saw Amy Winehouse in the flesh walking down Carnaby Street in London. I’ve seen the documentary film “Amy” and followed some of her relentless media coverage so I know a…
Gillian Cosgriff is hilarious. Her show ‘This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things’ is Cosgriff’s exploration of her feelings and review of her decisions as she careens towards her 30s, or in her words, ‘adulthood’. We didn’t stop laughing the whole…
While I’m very aware of my privileged life here in inner-city Melbourne, the daily struggle with FOMO (fear of missing out) experienced by Kendall and Tiffany from The Melbourne Cabaret Festival’s show #FirstWorldWhiteGirls hit a cord with me. I too…
Returning from a successful run at last year’s Fringe Festival and a highly acclaimed run at Perth Fringe World, ‘The Point of Light‘ is back at the Butterfly Club for a short, slick, and crowd-wowing run. It is a cheeky…
I’m going to put it out there and assume that there’s a decent portion of our readers who are not familiar with one of the strangest yet greatest cult classic musical films of all time, ‘Little Shop of Horrors‘. So let…
I am going to add a new affliction to the medical journals: ‘Face-ache – a condition caused when an individual laughs and smiles for such an extended period of time that their face aches.’ I got face-ache at Sunday night’s…
Last Saturday, December 1928, Lord Quiten Daventry hosted his annual party bash. Not knowing him in person, I had a business proposition to make – that he sell his manor house so I, the baron Gerhaard Haase, Swedish property tycoon,…