Get up close and intimate with a Melbourne cool chick Lauren Bok in her debut solo show ‘Is That A Burrito In Your Pocket Or Are You Just Happy To Have A Burrito’ as she rocks the shop and contemporary…
In the bowels of the Bull & Bear Tavern lay a stage and a comedy audience ready to laugh, as well as a kitchen staff that got to chortle along to every joke too. I love mistranslation stories. Love them….
Penny Arcade would easily make it into my ‘top 3 people to invite to a dinner party’ list, my first remark to my plus one after spending an hour getting to know her at the Spiegeltent this Comedy Festival. This…
Impromptunes is 60 minutes of ad-hoc creativity, wild storylines, and musical mayhem. The cast, a six-person troupe of talented performers, has been delivering this unique show with huge success since their debut at the 2013 Melbourne Fringe Festival. If you appreciate leaving a…
There is much to like about a show that Ryan Coffey puts together for a festival run. With the combination of highly impressive loop pedal harmonies, witty rhymes, and engaging narrative within the content and presentation of his stand-up portions,…
Tasmanians, or Taswegians as I affectionately call them, have a weird ability to find one another in the big smoke of Melbourne, like a subconscious sniffer-dog complex. For a population of only half a million people, they’re surprisingly common here in…
I am not a geek. I am not a geek. I am not a geek. That was the mantra I had inside my head when I went to see Sam Donnelly in ‘What Would Spock Do?‘ I remember watching the original…
On investigation of the flyer for Claire Healy’s ‘A Little Too Much Information‘, I was expecting some sort of light hearted stand-up (blame the adorable matching bowler hat). When I descended into the bowels of the ever-amazing Butterfly Club, some…
Eileen Williams is a delightful character, and her show ‘Irrelevant’ is anything but what the title suggests. With Eileen having to take the mantle of her husband’s bigoted campaign in front of a crowd of people she was unprepared to…
I like it when people undersell events. It’s an old business equation: under promise + over deliver = happy clients. I think the team implemented the equation for this experience, not that the under promise was anything to be scoffed…