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Chloe Walker

Chloe Walker has written 15 posts for A New Leaf Media

Don Pasquale

Michael Camilleri made his directorial debut during the L’Or‚àö?al Melbourne Fashion Festival a few years ago with ‘a weird, arty performance, art fashion parade at a strip club in Brunswick.’ This year, the two-time Melbourne Fringe Festival award winner has turned his hand to opera with an absurd update of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale. The show [...]

Smorgasbord

Etymologically speaking, the word ’smorgasbord’ is a back-formation of the word ‘Smorgy’s’, which is used to describe all-you-can-eat buffet-style restaurants. By extension, Smorgasbord is a buffet-style comedy show, serving up a selection of skits, stand-up, films and songs from behind the sneeze guard. Unfortunately, like the food at Smorgy’s, the comedy at Smorgasbord is somewhat [...]

The Lion, the Bitch and the Closet

The Lion, the Bitch and the Closet are, in fact, three separate acts in this darkly funny triple treat.
Jeremy Lion is the first of two acts from Edinburgh, playing a washed up ‘children’s performer’ who bumbles and belches his way through a story time play. As he gets progressively drunker, Jeremy and his pianist, Lesley, [...]

Kung Fu DaPu Sewerperhero

Kids love poo jokes. Hell, so do I. Luckily, this show is full of them.
Kung Fu DaPu (pronounced DuPWA of course) is a modern day sewerperhero who lives within the bowels (sorry) of Melbourne’s sewerage system. DaPu and his sidekick, Number One, seek to educate the world about water sustainability, while battling their evil nemesis, [...]

LaLaLuna

LaLaLuna is the story of the night the light went out in the moon, and its caretaker, played by Wolfe Bowart of The Schneedles, had to find a way to defy gravity and replace the bulb. During his quest, though, Bowart (equal parts mime, magician, acrobat and clown) keeps getting distracted’by the washing, a concert [...]

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