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Seeing some truly awful autobiographical cabaret has shown me that a compelling performance requires more than just telling strangers about your life. Of course a performer needs to entertain, but great cabaret performers get beyond the merely personal, leading their audience to mull over bigger issues. In Waitressing … And Other Things…
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Emerging in a distinctive tall hat, Simon Munnery in Hats Off To The 101ers shows us the meaning of his title, a one-man punk musical about the English R101 airship of the 1930s and important figures in its history. Curious! He also delivers what MICF guide promises: “poems, jokes, aphorisms,…
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Macbeth — “The Scottish Play” — is famously believed to be cursed. According to theatre lore, the witches’ incantation in the first act of the play, which William Shakespeare wrote with detail to appease King James, who had written a book on the behaviour of witches, hit a little too…
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Unpack This! is a short sharp show jam packed full of laughs. You thought you knew Geoff Paine, the nice guy from Neighbours in the 80’s? He thought he knew himself until he head butted his next door neighbour. The result of this outburst was a broken nose (the neighbours, not…
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Attendance at a Candy B’s Australian Booty: The Fatty-Boom-Boom Remix show should be compulsory, as it’s impossible to leave without feeling damn hot and wanting to shake your booty all over town. Ok, so the chances of me shaking my booty are slim (I am an uptight white chick who can’t dance and knows…
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If you’re a believer in the dinner party rule of not discussing sex, religion or politics, then you may find Squeaky Clean Comedy, a show featuring a number of performers, to your taste. Notably the show is raising funds so that World Vision can address sanitation problems in developing countries.…
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I have developed an ‘Independents’ addiction. I arrive a little too early for the performance, slink downstairs to the fabulous, moody Verve bar where I order a drink and some pre-show nibbles (the arancini is moorish) — the Manager of the bar asks me if I am seeing a show…
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A live radio play with a hero, villains, robots and super powers, Bullet: A Superhero Comedy gives its audience a satisfying action story performed with style. However – Holy misclassification Batman! – it is less like a comedy and more an adventure with some comedic touches such as animated classic…
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From the promo photo, you may guess that describing Bob Downe as “fabulous” isn’t just a comment on his talents as a cabaret entertainer. Mark Trevorrow’s now venerable character is almost a one-man Mardi Gras of costume changes, highly individual dancing and the ultimate show biz grin. Even though the…
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Tie Her To The Tracks! A Live Silent Film gives the audience a chance to see a play set against a film backdrop. The audience were welcomed by Adam Mckenzie to a country town hall in 1917, the time of King George V, to experience the new medium of film. I…
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