
Rocking their unique brand of musical comedy and gaining fans from around the globe, The Axis of Awesome are back for their sixth Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF) season, to elate audiences with their brilliant quirkiness.

Borensztajn has warmth and charm, and she’s a confident and very likeable presence on stage. More than anything she is professional; the show is well-paced and masterful yet is delivered with heart.

Much of the strength in this production lies with how vividly the characters and settings are performed by Youngman, so much so that you nearly forget there’s only one actor on stage.

I really wanted to like Wonderland. I love small plays with small casts telling small stories – and what is smaller than the intimate intricacies of a romantic relationship?

What McDonald has created is a finely tuned performance where each intricate movement, tone and mannerism is explored and perfected.

This knowledge that what you’re watching is based on someone’s actual experiences makes it difficult to say what I have to about this play: it didn’t work for me.

This is theatre stacked on meta-theatre stacked on more meta-theatre stacked on some Nietzsche (and yes, he appears at one point. So does a Nazi. And an elk. Or do they?).