
From the Land of Oz our story sprung, with some early-college-antics where our two witches became best, worst, best and ‘whatever’ friends, setting the scene for the show to follow. And what a show followed.

The very same intrinsic qualities that drove Matthew Mitcham to focus and train hard enough to win Olympic Gold, are the ones that also steered him down the road of depression and self-harm.

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.

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.

Izaak Lim claims to be a “legitimate medical doctor in his spare time”, that is when he’s not writing and performing in cabarets, comedy, improvisation, storytelling and theatre.

Being at Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd’s stand-up comedy is what I imagine watching a Kelpie who has been kept indoors and is only let outside for an hour would look like.

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.