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The Unspoken Word is Joe is a very funny work that messes with your head, a work that craps completely on theatrical conventions.
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The Orchid and The Crow is a funny and theatrical approach by Daniel Tobias (the boy one of comedy duo Die Roten Punkte) based on his grapple with testicular cancer. That and a whole lot more.
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Scotch + Soda is a perfectly dear performance, mostly family friendly but for some accidentally-on-purpose willy wobbling. Soft flopping schlongs are inherently comical and when one flops out unexpectedly, well that’s funnier still.
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Blak Cabaret is cabaret with a conscience: a lovely blend of drag, political satire (not gentle), and emotionally vast and soulful music by some of the best indigenous performers around, an utter legend or four.
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Hailing from a town called Openmouth Holler and with a sister who works as an ‘intimacy facilitator’, country singer Tina C is all about proudly reclaiming her white trash status.
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I wanted to like this play – De Angelis is a peer. I wanted to identify with the characters and their stories, I wanted to laugh but I hated it. It felt very dated, the mother-daughter dynamic reminding me of conflicts I had with my mother forty years ago.
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Couples is a tightly written and performed semi-naturalistic comedy with hilarious moments, not theatre that revels in innovation or heightened language.
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