Tom Doig
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There is no one in the world doing comedy quite the way Jo Randerson does it. The maverick kiwi performer’s Billy T Award nominated show Jo Randerson’s Skazzle Dazzle entirely defies genre with its addled blend of characterisation, dance, theatre, puppetry and ‘wig-work’. The show’s (extremely loose) narrative typifies Randerson’s highly original and offbeat style: an alien entity is abandoned on earth in an ‘experiment’ and undergoes a series of bizzare transformations in a quest to discover its true identity.
The broad themes of the show explore loneliness, alienation and …
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Jo Randerson’s Skazzle Dazzle is an… experience. If your idea of ‘funny’ is famous guys with Scottish accents telling dick jokes, Skazzle Dazzle probably isn’t the show for you. However, if you like weird shit – like watching a woman on the verge of psychosis express herself through ribbon dance’you just might love it.
The premise of Skazzle Dazzle (‘an ancient alien abandons her prodigy on planet earth as an experiment’) doesn’t really connect to the rest of the show; it’s more like an excuse for Randerson to wear a silly …
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When I saw Ridiculusmus’ 2004 Comedy Festival show Ideas Men, one of the people I went with laughed so hard that he headbutted his own knee and broke his glasses. Our other companion ended up making inhuman human sounds whilst expelling bright rivers of snot from her nose. So when I heard that David Woods and John Haynes were going to play all nine characters in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest between the two of them, I was there.
The absurdity begins when Algernon (played by Haynes) asks his …
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