

With the crowd filling the Melbourne Town Hall to near full capacity the audience quickly settled down to indulge in some acoustic threatening belly rumbling.

Growing old gracefully - that’s got to be a cliché up there with ‘can’t teach old dogs new tricks.’ Fact is, both of those statements are wrong, as proved by the insightful play Codgers, which is like watching a wise man’s fireside tale come to life.

Martinez is a brilliant mimic with impeccable timing but the structure of the show itself seemed somewhat lazy. It is intended to be a sparse, pared back format, but instead merely seemed under developed.

