Melbourne Fringe 2012

Lessons with Luis – Luis Presents: Kidney Kingdom

1 Comment 04 October 2012

Awkwardness is evidently the new funny. I never thought this was possible, given the seemingly polar relationship between social discomfort and humour – but when you find yourself cracking up over a nonsensical joke about dentists, featuring puns not even your dad would dare make, you know the times are changing. Lessons with Luis represents […]

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Melbourne Fringe 2012

Knock Off

No Comments 04 October 2012

The award-winning Three High Acrobatics bring us their show Knock Off, a high-energy, hilarious contemporary circus act following three tradies on an ‘average’ work day. Donning fluro wife-beaters, the three tradies convert a work-site into a place for circus tricks and slap-stick comedy. Hammers are juggled, ladders are dived through and fighting between the blokes […]

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Melbourne Fringe 2012

How to get Rich

No Comments 04 October 2012

Online dating doesn’t have the stigma associated with it that it once had, but what if rather than meeting your partner on eHarmony, you met them on Facebook? And what if you’re only just about to meet them in person for the first time, five months after you started Skyping, and you’re flying across the […]

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Melbourne Fringe 2012

Kissing and F*%king Up

No Comments 04 October 2012

Scott Collins is your run of the mill, modern-day Lothario: panting, awkward, persistent and forever aroused. Kissing and F*%king Up is an insight into the romantic anecdotes that have made this man. Written while living as an expat in London, the autobiographical script was initially a way for Collins to expose, acknowledge and hopefully learn […]

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Melbourne Fringe 2012

Today Tonight, Tomorrow the World

1 Comment 03 October 2012

Nicholas J. Johnson won’t be the funniest man you see at this year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival, but he may well have the greatest mainstream appeal. In the context of a grassroots cultural arts event – where the word “mainstream” is about as welcome as an X-Factor contestant – this could be construed as a backhanded […]

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Melbourne Fringe 2012

Jim Jam Presents: Biscuits and Impro

No Comments 03 October 2012

Jim Jam Presents: Biscuits and Impro has the finest selection of biscuits and milk that I’ve seen in any fringe festival show – but that’s not the sole reason to go. With an impressive array of improv comedy presented throughout the night, the show’s responses to audience suggestion caters to your every need, whether they […]

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Melbourne Fringe 2012

Nerdgasm

No Comments 02 October 2012

Despite a promising synopsis — two famous gaming villains exchange discourse in a dingy, back alley bar — Nerdgasm, a project by Blernshaw Comedy, lacks the potential comedic flavour that it had to offer. Presented by comedians Avi Bernshaw and Luke Blesser and supported by Of Science & Swords and Critical Hit, the show is a conflation […]

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Melbourne Fringe 2012

The Improv Conspiracy

No Comments 02 October 2012

Mention improvisation to even the most experienced actors and there’s the chance they’ll quake. The actors in Improv Conspiracy’s The Harold, though, shake their fears and provide snappy, spontaneous comedy based off audience suggestion and an overarching theme as well. Described as a ‘longform improvised format’, the night’s Harold performance sees the strategy of revisiting three […]

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Melbourne Fringe 2012

Tegan Higginbotham in Million Dollar Tegan

No Comments 01 October 2012

They say you don’t know yourself until you take your first hit. If that’s true, it seems fair to say that Tegan Higginbotham knows herself extremely well. In Million Dollar Tegan, Tegan’s sixth appearance at the Melbourne Fringe Festival, we hear the comedic story firsthand of how Tegan came to find herself competing in a […]

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Melbourne Fringe 2012

Banana Republic

No Comments 01 October 2012

Set against the backdrop of a share house – a situation many of us are only too familiar with – Banana Republic is a humorous depiction of what happens when three friends start up a ‘commune’. An amalgamation of everyone’s assets, consensus decision-making and non-hierarchical structures are defining characteristics of a commune – but in […]

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