Joel Ma
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Walking in to a comedy show 20 minutes late is never a good look. You interrupt the feng shui of the room as you push past people to find a seat discreetly, all the time hoping you don’t draw fire from the stage, trying to get yourself in the zone but knowing that you’ve missed the crucial first few minutes where the performer establishes rapport with audience and sets the tone for on coming hilarity. Basically you feel like an outsider not in on the joke yet. This feeling usually …
The Pun 2009 Reviews »
As the poster for Raymond Crowe’s Unusualist show suggests, tonight’s performance is family friendly, and at 7pm on a Friday night at the Atheneum theatre there are families-aplenty.
Kids at a comedy show;
Not exactly filling me with enthusiasm;
The lights dim and over the P.A. comes cheesy new age music and my heart sinks further;
Please god, don’t let this be a wiggles show with magic tricks;
On stage walks an unassuming man wearing a tuxedo with tails and a sad smile…
This man proceeds to dislodge all my expectations with a show based on shadow puppetry, …
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Adam Vincent is a tall and confident man, which I imagine helps when you are performing to a half empty room on a cold Tuesday evening. He lurches on stage wearing an immaculately fitted suit and proceeds to greet us in a relaxed manner whilst laying out his game plan. Listing all the subjects, topics and general themes he plans to touch on, he outlines everything that you can expect from the show. Clever technique.
Mostly he chooses to tell stories about being unemployed in his 20′s and then delves in …
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It’s fair to say that ventriloquism isn’t the most popular style of comedy today. It brings to mind men in cheap suits sitting on stools with their hands inside creepy dolls doing the RSL curcuit. And then there is the enchanting Nina Conti. Everything about her approach plays off the pre-conceived cliches we have about the art form.
On stage she works with a slide projector, a few well designed props and costumes and a small cast of sock puppet characters but mostly the show’s focus is on the relationship between …
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