La Chat Noir: A (B)romance in One ActI Love You, Bro is a creepy little black comedy that is becoming justifiably famous since its debut at the 2007 Melbourne Fringe and subsequent season at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Set in England the eighty minute solo act is told by Johnny (Ash Flanders) who recounts how, as a lonely fourteen year-old, he began a chat-room relationship that nearly cost him his life. Bored and frustrated Johnny spends his nights at his computer talking to equally bored and frustrated strangers until he meets by chance another boy in his town who ...
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For consistency in presenting a range of interesting repertoire I would have to nominate Red Stitch [again]. Red Stitch have mostly presented drama and strong drama at that. They wrapped their year with a scalding British play Motortown that took no prisoners. When they present comedy it is not usually light. Wild East by a writer that keeps defying the mainstream, April de Angelis, was a case of Red Stitch's 'funny peculiar' as opposed to 'funny ha-ha' comedy. Jack Goes Boating as a near exception. It felt like it was an offshoot of the Seinfeld school but in presenting it ...
Lost in the WoodsGiven the synopsis from the media release that Brindabella is a "baroque fantasia", evoking both the "seductive danger" of the Australian bush and Jean Cocteau's film version of La Belle et le Bête (Beauty and the Beast) a lot of the audience were in for a shock. The publicity images were of pink draped and pretty young men lolling about in girlie underwear or less but what emerged was very different. In the event I was quite glad. Those images suggested to me more of an influence from Bavo Defurne’s films than anything by Msr. Cocteau.Using the ...
Let There Be Light ... Comedy!Uncle Semolina (and Friends) is a performing arts collective with a knack for turning out memorable theatre in the most unlikely places like an abandoned shop or a shipping container. After the success of their reinterpretation of the ancient and homoerotic epic Gilgamesh Uncle Semolina are tackling that daddy of all epics, the Bible, in their Chronicles of the Old Testament, a selection of the sordid, taboo-ridden and violent stories from the Old Testament so beloved of fundamentalists.Using their trademark props, namely a collection of children's toys and kindergarten furniture, the cast act out the ...
