Dizzy O’Dare and his Giant Balloon Show have drifted from the UK, over the sea and through the air, all the way to our little city fair. Boorloo families who enter the Big Top down at the Pleasure Garden to … Continue reading FW24 REVIEW: The Giant Balloon Show | Dizzy O’Dare
First things first, Cam Venn’s Shark Heist does what it says on the box – it’s a show about a heist [of the world’s largest diamond], and it involves a shark [named Terry]. It comes with dozens of props and … Continue reading FW24 REVIEW: Cam Venn: Shark Heist
Nobody knows improv like the teams behind Variegated Productions and The Big HOO-HAA. And it’s no secret that the improv veteran and producer behind both those names, Libby Klysz, has cooked up a new improvised venture, F*ck, Marry, Kill – … Continue reading FW24 REVIEW: F*ck, Marry, Kill | Variegated Productions & The Big HOO-HAA
Review by Lara Fox 25.3.2017 Matt Hale Comedy Hypnotist brought plenty of laughs to Midland on Saturday 25 March, with good value entertainment for people of all ages and backgrounds. The show is part of Midlandia, which is described as an urban circus, magic and comedy festival that runs throughout March in Midland. The festival is a joy: it is set out nicely like a mini-Fringe, complete with circus tents, shipping containers as box offices, quirky furnishings and a great vibe. Unfortunately, Matt Hale Comedy Hypnotist was in a circus tent which was too large for the crowd that attended, … Continue reading REVIEW: Matt Hale | Midlandia
Review by Cicely Binford 24.3.2017 So event gurus Jump Climb appear to have made a break from the Fringe with their Midlandia hub, which has been going strong in Midland for four years now. They’ve focussed in on comedy, magic and circus events, and have brought along some of the big guns from Fringe to fill out their roster. One such gun is comic Tom Gleeson, who many people will know and love various TV spots including most recently ‘Hard Chat’ on ABC’s The Weekly with Charlie Pickering and Hard Quiz. Midlandia has set up a large tent in a field … Continue reading REVIEW: Tom Gleeson | Midlandia
Nö Shöw Review by Cicely Binford 31.1.17 Ben Russell and Xavier Michelides pair up for an ‘absurdist character-based dark comedy’ about a duo opening a show to a completely empty audience, and frustratingly, they’ve titled it Nö Shöw. Frustratingly, because in order to write this review, they’ve forced me to look up how to type umlauts. I don’t know why they’ve even bothered using them even after having seen the show, but so be it. Russell and Michelides will be forgiven for this small, temporary nuisance, however, because the show, co-created and produced by Maggie Looke, is that good, and I can’t … Continue reading REVIEW: Nö Shöw
Betty Grumble: Sex Clown Saves the World Review by Cicely Binford 28.1.2017 Betty Grumble has some ardent fans out there, and on opening night they were indeed ‘Betty to Grumble!’ She’s come to Fringe World with her ecosexual entreaty to fight against misogyny and the destruction of Earth, Betty Grumble: Sex Clown Saves the World, and her followers are eager to receive her gospel. Playing to a packed out crowd of clown-curious Fringe-goers at the Circus Theatre in the Perth Cultural Centre, it seems that though not everyone in the audience was converted, most people found her message compelling, to say the … Continue reading REVIEW: Betty Grumble: Sex Clown Saves the World
Comedian Brianna Williams is making her triumphant return to Perth after having moved to Melbourne over a year ago to further pursue her comedy career. She’s bringing her one-woman sketch show, Little Mountain Goblin, to Fringe World after a successful run at Melbourne Fringe late last year. I caught up with Williams for a conversation about the show, life in Melbourne, and coming back home. If you’re a cricket or footy fan, you might have seen Williams in the ‘Demand a Commander’ advert. And if you’re really curious about that ad, you can do a little Google search and see that there’s … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Brianna Williams | Little Mountain Goblin
We’re heading into another Fringe-packed weekend at Perth Arts Live, with six shows planned on the horizon! But first, let’s take a look at two shows we sandwiched in between weekend 1 and weekend 2: Ben Russell in The Tokyo Hotel and The Road That Wasn’t There. Ben Russell in The Tokyo Hotel | Fanny Pack I first took notice of Ben Russell at the Blue Room a couple of years ago with Weeping Spoon’s 2013 production of Trampoline. He played a few different walk-on characters in that one, and was absurdly funny. Some things never change: Ben Russell is still absurdly funny. … Continue reading REVIEW: Ben Russell in The Tokyo Hotel | The Road That Wasn’t There
I don’t know about you, but I find the idea of standing half-naked in front of a crowd a terrifying prospect. Then to stand up half-naked in front of a crowd of people and make jokes about rape, well this just seems unimaginable. Why would any woman choose to do this? Is she crazy, brave or asking for it? Adrienne Truscott is possibly a little crazy, definitely brave, and most certainly not asking for it, despite what her show’s called. Rather than ask, Truscott demands that we overlook her pantslessness and listen to her musings on the state of rape … Continue reading REVIEW: Asking For It | Adrienne Truscott
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