I spent a lot of time in April this year going to various shows during the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and it’s safe to say I never came across anything like Binge Thinking, by a relatively unknown Aussie comedian and author Xavier Toby. His performance was energetic, passionate, friendly and engaging, something which worked well […]
Continue ReadingChloé Charody’s ‘The Carnival’
Chloé Charody’s ‘The Carnival’ is a circus opera, an innovative show where classical music and singing is intermingled throughout a three-act performance that also features contortionists, fire-eaters and aerial acrobats. Whilst the performance is quirky and entertaining at times, it lacks any clear direction or narrative, and therefore fails to allow its audience to become […]
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Despite being marketed as one of Shakespeare’s “least famous comedies,” this modernised version of ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’ has the Bard to thank for some of its most redeeming attributes. Although widely regarded as one of his earliest (and weakest) plays, director Sharmini Kumar obviously concluded that even as a novice who was experimenting […]
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