I Know You Are But What Am I is McKenzie’s first solo effort, and a cracking good premise for a show. A local comic who has performed at both the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Melbourne Fringe Festival, McKenzie has an instinct for what will work in the demanding and competitive festival environment.

After coming to the realisation that every single thing, large or small, that he has done in his life has bought him to this point, McKenzie wonders what has happened to all the other kids he started out fresh-faced with at primary school. Attempting to locate every person in his prep class photo, he endeavors to find out. Armed with the photo, McKenzie tries every trick in the book to locate people for whom he only has a name and an idea of their former suburb. From private investigators to mysterious emails, McKenzie drags us along with him to discover who he did and didn’t discover.

While this was a preview and requires some polishing, it is obvious that once McKenzie settles in to the rhythm of his show this will be a solid and entertaining performance. There is a good story here to match the great premise. At times it feels as if he is repeating his enthusiasm for the journey a little much, rather than sharing the humor of the challenge, but that eagerness adds to his energised performance and genuine joy to be sharing what was clearly a fun adventure to have.