Category: Comedy
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4 stars – honest and powerful storytelling Gabriel Bird, class 1995, tells the story of the years he spent in Colorado in his original musical storytelling piece. From the first song, we already have a grasp of his dark humour, when with an accelerated, jolly rhythm he describes the setting of his attempted suicide.
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4 stars – clever, witty and wonderfully performed. To review Mo Fry Pasic’s fast-paced solo show does require quite a bit of afterthought. It’s rich from minute one; before Mo even gets on stage we see screenings of ironic old-school notices such as: “Throw your gums out!” or: “Everyone, look under your seats, there’s a…
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4 stars – powerful and honest musical comedy. Ah, the power of women…! Women falling on the ground, bouncing back up, falling more, bouncing back again and then some. Such is Riki Lindhome’s story, her infertility journey, as she calls it with apparent irony, standing somewhere between theatrical storytelling and comedy.
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3 stars – vulnerable, honest and ecletic. Jessie Cave, a well-versed, deadpan and brutally open comic, delivers another hour of just that: her usual dry, raw, personal, dark comedy. She’s famous for it by now, and not only for her comedy, podcasting, acting and bestselling novel, but also thanks to her public, on-off-on-again relationship with…
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3 stars – a silly take on manifestation and self-help culture. No matter how much we try to avoid it, we’re living in an age of constant incoming stream of spiritual and relationship advice, self-help, self-love and pop-psychology coming at us particularly from our (broken beyond repair!) Instagram and TikTok algorithms. Manifestation is one of…
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4 stars – irony and high stakes Julia and Dan are splitting up, and every day they step into the divorce office and sit next to their lawyers, Samantha and Katherine. New details of their story emerge through each dialogue, together with hints about how their relationships have evolved in time.
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4 stars – a lighthearted but well captured portrait of an all-girls houseshare. Three housemates (and close friends) in their 20s are hosting a birthday party for one of them, when the birthday girl’s new situationship-about-to-have-the-talk shows up and turns the night around. Accommo-dating, a short and sweet one-act play managed to be clever, funny,…
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3 stars – an entertaining improvised comedy hour with varying levels of performance. A 60-minute longform improv show is a tough task to master even for a very well-versed ensemble of some of the funniest quick-thinkers who can read just about any room. With three heroes, a dungeon but no dragons, Mistakes Were Made provided…
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4 stars – but very close to 5! In this comedy, Lairs and May could be each other’s nemesis, but they develop a (not-so-balanced) friendship. Lairs is a Chinese student who stems from a rich family and has just moved to London. May is a sound, practical person, she looks Asian but was born in…
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4 stars – Aussie silliness in a jam-packed experimental sketch show Aussie silliness in a jam-packed experimental sketch show The Sydney duo Hot Department certainly deliver what they promise: heat from straight to finish. It doesn’t take them long to start undressing and by the end nothing is off the table and not much on…
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