The Project‘s writer and busy comic-about-town, Michael Shafar, takes us on a whirlwind tour of his life and observations in the few years since he took up comedy as a career in his show Jewish-ish. He’s male, Jewish, and a lawyer. Despite…
Clara Cupcakes ‘The Worst’ is, in fact, the best. In the bowels of The Butterfly Club exists the best video game you’ll ever play, and all you have to do is press that START button. I never owned a gaming…
Primary school teaching veteran Ben Knight shatters Mum-and-Dad fairytales in The Parent/Teacher Interview. He looks like a man parents can trust. Tall, with his red hair and ready smile, he can also spell. The only thing they need fear is…
We have all at times wanted to strangle a member of our own family. Right? If so, then The Omission of the Coleman Family should prove to be somewhat cathartic. This production, presented by Metanoia Theatre, is in fact the…
A Welshman, a Scotsman and an Englishman walked into a theatre. It sounds like the start of a joke but, if the theatre is the beautiful Forum in Melbourne and the men are Lloyd Langford, Stuart Mitchell and Greg Burns,…
Gillian English is bold, brassy and will find out a coward or patsy in seconds with her bullet-stare in her stand up show A Bitter Shrew. The successful Canadian comedian unleashes her killer lines like a tornado. Dating, the female…
With the rise in life coaches and self-help seminars, Chelsea Zeller takes the opportunity to make a mockery of this industry in her one-woman show, High Achievers. Zeller shows her ability to step into a variety of characters as the…
Hate doctors? Hate waiting rooms’ out-of-date magazines? The interminable wait-times? You’re not alone. Genuine GP Dr. Ahmed Kazmi, in his show Doctor In The House, is ready to cure you of the ill will you bear towards the medical profession….
Canadian comedic songstress Shirley Gnome is back on Aussie shores for this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival. In her 2017 offering, Taking It Up The Notch, Gnome proves why Canada’s Edmonton Journal has branded her ‘the Queen troubadour of intelligent…
Solo shows are a mammoth task to undertake, especially if the concept involves multiple characters and a strong sense of narration and connectivity. Ben Russell, once again, shows his expertise in The Pilot, a show bringing together the exploits, memories,…