Michael Burville
The Pun 2006 Reviews »
Scrabble Unscripted is a daring and innovative concept that fans of improvisation comedy will love. A team of five improvisers stand ready to create scenes from a live scrabble game played by a guest comedian and a scrabble champion. Intermittently the host Steve Lynch picks words from the game and the improvisers act them out in short scenes. Some great guest comedians are promised, including Tom Gleeson and Dave Callan.
This concept leans towards comedy that is even less structured than its closest comparison theatresports, and this is both a blessing …
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It’s a Mother! is a brilliant piece of theatre that investigates the nature of the mother and son relationship in the Australian-Greek context. The performance is presented in nine short skits, each written by a different person and performed by three actors who power through all the different roles.
The segments concentrate on the domineering figure of the Greek mother and how she alternatively spoils and manipulates the men in her life, particularly the son. Some of these stories are stronger than others, but the cast takes to all of the …
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Chances are that you’re already familiar with The Amazing Jonathan, the comedy magician probably best remembered for his pencil up the nose trick and gory physical illusions. Well, after a six year season in Las Vegas, the man dubbed the ‘Freddy Krueger of Comedy’ brings his show back to Australia.
If you’ve seen The Amazing Jonathan before, a lot of this show will be familiar. There are some notable additions to the act though, mostly in the form of Psychic Tania, ditzy assistant and comedy foil. She now bears the brunt …
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Indulge me for a second and ask yourself, as a punter: What do you want from the comedy festival? Are you interested only in the big name shows, the guaranteed laughs? Or, are you prepared to take a punt, if you will, on the more raw amateur shows? If you answered Yes to the latter, you should give Fran and Roxanne are Best Friends a go.
Stand-up comedian Lou Pardi and actress and singer Jacky Claff have come together to present a show about friendship that is two parts theatre, two …
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