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Chloe Walker

Chloe Walker has written 15 posts for A New Leaf Media
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Fox K is Looking for Emily

By Chloe Walker ⋅ April 23, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Everyone has a tale of the one that got away. For Fox K, it’s Emily, last seen aged seven on a family beach holiday. Consumed by the notion that she could be his soul mate, Fox tells his story of his quest to find her (aided by his trusty sidekick, Stefan) and speculates on how [...]

Dylan Moran

By Chloe Walker ⋅ April 23, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

So you missed out on tickets for Dylan Moran, and you’re reading this review to see if he was shit so that you can stop kicking yourself for not being more organised, because you love watching ‘Black Books’ and you wanted to know if Moran is just like Bernard Black in real life, and you [...]

Burlesque Idol

By Chloe Walker ⋅ April 22, 2007 ⋅ One comment

I don’t get this show.
On the one hand, it features three highly polished, superbly entertaining burlesque performances. On the other hand, these are couched within a plodding, cringe-worthy panel-style show complete with fading rock star jokes and mullet wigs. One minute, we’re sucked in by a striptease; the next, we’re shifting uncomfortably in our seats [...]

Puzzle Boy Lawrence

By Chloe Walker ⋅ May 25, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

To anyone who has ever ’solved’ a Rubik’s cube by peeling off the stickers and rearranging them, go to Lawrence Leung’s show The Marvellous Misadventures of Puzzle Boy. Lawrence has spent the last 20 years trying to learn the secret behind solving the iconic 80s puzzle toy. “There are hundreds of different methods, but they [...]

Quantock: Inspiring Sedition

By Chloe Walker ⋅ May 25, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Question: what if Australia’s pre-eminent political comedian, described by The Age as ‘a living Melbourne treasure’, were charged as a terrorist? It could happen. Last week Rod Quantock hosted The Inaugural Golden Guy Fawkes Award, in which local and international comedians competed for the ‘Comedian Most Likely to Blow-Up Parliament’ Award. Quantock was expecting some [...]

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