
Mash together one of the freshest comedies to hit Aussie TV in a long time, SBS’s Black Comedy, with one of the dodgiest cult films ever made, Showgirls, then chuck in a bit of South Park cartoonesque inanity for good measure, and you’ll get a fair picture of Blaque Showgirls.

Site specific performances are unique, individual encounters, and this year’s in SITU brings experienced and creative choreographers and performers contributing a diverse array of responses to the presentation.

I like to believe that inside every stage hungry, larger than life, show pony, superstar is the nervous child who once sang in front of their bathroom mirror, hairbrush in hand and dreams still out of reach.

Divorce, a failed suicide attempt, three poker games, relentless vacuuming, clearing of sinuses and pseudo marital spats, spectacularly turn pain into funny, in Neil Simon’s comedy classic, The Odd Couple.

As one of Mamet’s classic plays, Speed-the-Plow was always likely to be a hot ticket for STC, and star-casting certainly sealed the deal. But it is nice to be able to report that the hype is not undeserved.

Who would have thunk it? An opera singer opening a show at the Kings Cross Hotel? It is one of the marvellous conceits and inventions of The Angelica Complex, a thrilling theatrical voyage into pregnancy, post-partum, and parenting.