Category: Comedy
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London: The Plays (Part One)
The Hills of California ★★★1/2 / Machinal ★★★★ / Minority Report ★★★ / People, Places and Things ★★★★★ I saw a wide variety of plays from big West End blockbusters to fringe two-handers. As always, more money and bigger names doesn’t always mean it’s a better show.
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No Pay? No Way! (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★★1/2
Should we Aussies be rioting in Woolies? Looting our local Coles? Releasing anarchy down in Aldi?
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Zombie! The Musical (Hayes) ★★★★★
This show has my heart, and it can eat it too if it likes. So, chookas to the Apocalypse!
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The Hate Race (Malthouse) ★★★★
Zehra Newman hits it out the park with this funny, charming look at growing up Black in suburban Australia.
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A Fool in Love (Sydney Theatre Co) ★★★
There’s putting a hat on a hat, and then there’s A Fool in Love – the new comedy that gets so engrossed in its maximalist approach it threatens to lose itself completely. To quote the great poet/philosopher of our age, Taylor Swift, “You need to calm down”.
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Shitty (Belvoir 25a) ★★★★
What’s more horrific than turning 30 and looking for love?
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Ruff Trade (The Motley Bauhaus) ★★★1/2
Ruff Trade starts off as a sex comedy about a 16th century male sex worker and unexpectedly ends up being a bitter tragedy. Strangely the heel-turn works, making for a satisfying, and gleefully historically inaccurate, short play.
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An Evening Without Kate Bush (Wharf 1 Theatre) ★★★1/2
Kate Bush is an icon, a legend, an enigma and she is NOT appearing at the Sydney Festival. But Sarah-Louise Young is!
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Ode to Joy (How Gordon got to go to the nasty pig party) (Neilson Nutshell) ★★★★
It’s like How Stella Got Her Groove Back but instead of using Taye Diggs, it uses ketamine.
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Tiddas (Belvoir) ★★★
When Anita Heiss’ Tiddas is funny, it’s damn funny, and when it’s didactic, it’s like having wikipedia recited to you. The two tones struggle to co-exist in Heiss’ stage adaptation of her 2014 novel about five friends whose book club becomes a meeting place for ideas, angst and more.
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