Have you ever wondered what would happen if you took two of Shakespeare’s tragedies – Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet – and smashed them together? The three gentlemen from Sound & Fury have combined the tales of the star-crossed lovers and the procrastinating prince into a true ‘Fakespearean’ (their word, not mine) masterpiece. The action […]

“There goes the security deposit.” Lily looks at the bloodied, rolled up carpet on her apartment floor while Phil pants desperately, wielding a baseball bat. If you have a taste for black comedy and physical humour and don’t get squeamish at the sight of blood, then Fairly Lucid Productions’ ‘Raton Laveur’ is well worth a […]

With a notepad in hand and a spring in his step, Stephen K Amos took to the stage last night to deliver his new show The Spokesman. He did not disappoint. The internationally renowned comedian is fast becoming a regular on the Australian comedy circuit, largely owing to past exposure on popular panel shows such as Good […]

Maybe this show should come with a disclaimer: does not actually contain any Radiohead songs, references, or Thom Yorke-inspired dance moves (see Lotus Flower). It does, however, contain a few Michael Jackson moves, a smattering of popular music and a number of entertaining jokes and tales from UK observational comedian Dan Willis. Willis’ hour-long show […]

It’s not your ordinary pub fight. Ex-serviceman Ray (Samuel Edward-Cook) explodes onto the scene, against the will of the pub’s occupants. The owner of the pub, Simon (Adam Foster) refuses to reciprocate his banter. There is an awkward tension from the get-go, of which Kristin Atherton’s character Leanne is hopelessly unaware. Whilst Chloe Massey’s Carla […]