Melbourne Reviews
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- Nikki Spunde
On stage, she cuts a figure the very quintessence of a young up-and-comer from Sydney: glamorous, brash, sharp-witted and cynical. She has a guitar and knows how to use it.
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- Chris Michelle-Wells
Headliners is a rotating roster of current US stand up comedians, three performing in a single show from a pool of seven performers.
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- Jane Canaway
Loretta is classic white trash – even classy white trash at times – and her dialogue and songs explore its rich realms.
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- Lee Bemrose
Josh Thomas seems to be one of those humans born to be a comedian. With his tousled hair, slouching-about-the-house dress sense and equally casual attitude to being in front of an audience, it's quite impossible to picture him being anything but a professional entertainer.
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- Nikki Spunde
McLennan and Snelling make inspired use of their unusual performance space, heightening the experience of a show that would be rave-worthy enough performed on a stage.
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- Lee Bemrose
It's an uneven, rambling set of mostly disjointed stories that occasionally have you also wondering what on Earth he is actually saying.
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- Heather Bloom
While funny, charming and with a banging body, Anonymous kept the audience at bay, his story more a work of fiction than a “confession”.
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