Disco Conversion Therapy
4.5 stars Under the dark cloud of gay conversion therapy this show was born, and while Jonny’s ‘conversion’ was not only inappropriate, and clearly ‘failed’, we are healed and restored by the Disco rainbow under the ministrations of Aunty Jonny and Mikala. “Because we’re in a University we thought we should give you a lecture” says Jonny, but this isn’t traditional learning. We’re taken back to the roots of the genre around a...
Shit-faced Shakespeare
Preshow occupational health and safety: A gong for an audience member to strike when they feel drunk actor is unsafe; a bugle for an audience member to blow when they feel drunk actor is sobering up; a bucket in case drunk actor needs to vomit. Not in a manual, anywhere. When the show begins and the actors appear, everyone is searching for a clue to find the drunk in disguise. It doesn’t take long. Wet lipped, smirking and swaying,...
Ukulele Death Squad – Fifty Shades of Uke
When the venue you’ve chosen is an atmospheric old cinema in a leafy established suburb of Adelaide, the audience is already probably quite different to your Grace Emily or WOMADelaide crowd, and by different I mean more comfortable sitting down for an hour than standing and dancing. For some, this may be the only way they can see your show. So keeping the doors shut until past start time, when it’s mid-afternoon in summer, is not a...
Build a Rocket – 4.5 stars
Yasmin is ‘supposed to be the bright one’ so the moment she realises she’s pregnant is the beginning of a life that is even harder than she could have imagined with her alcoholic mother. We’re in Scarborough, in the postcode poverty side of town, and Yasmin has hooked up with Danny the DJ from the posh suburbs in the final weeks in her last year of school. When her education ends poorly after the inevitable distraction of boy vs...
Jamie Mykaela’s Napoleon Complex – 4 stars
Jamie Mykaela is packing a punch from the moment she opens the front door to her athletic Olympian finale. We begin with her ‘overcompensating opening’ number, giggling awkwardly and nervously as we await what’s in store. There are baskets of ping pong balls. There are kazoos. There is a wedding in the National Wine Centre courtyard. Where will we be taken in her debut Adelaide show, and what background cavorting will be heard on the...