Winefulness
Reviewed by Brigitte Rennie Tash York loves to entertain. No doubt. From the moment she entered until she left the The Parlour tent her enthusiasm exuded forth and touched the audience. Tash also loves to drink wine and the show is all about this aspect of her life with a brief foray into relaying her reunion with her birth father and her happiness in finding love. If you do not like drinking wine, being tea total or just a...
The Wild Side
When I was a teenager the crowd I was hanging with had discovered Lou Reed’s ‘Transformer’. We listened to it on good old fashioned vinyl. This was, after all, the eighties. It was an iconic album, intense, creative and whimsical. We were just into the music then and didn’t really get the entire scene that this artistic creation represented. Fast forward many years and I’m walking up several flights of stairs at the...
YUCK Circus
Reviewed by Emma Kew. The only thing packed tighter than space at Gluttony this Adelaide Fringe is whatever is smuggled in the briefs of the YUCK Circus gals. With bulges brimming, six young female performers strut into the tent as hyper-masculine Aussie parodies with the seediest little moustaches you’ll see this side of the Torrens. With a quintessentially Australian sense of humour we are shown several, all too familiar,...
Happily Ever Poofter
Who doesn’t enjoy a good love story? Well this is an amazing love story, but wait…..there’s more to this enchanting tale than your standard love story. Across society we are well versed with Disney and fairytale themes of true love, princes and princesses and gallant knights rescuing maidens in their quest for love and happily ever after lives. But what if dating Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Snow White didn’t...
Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster
Reviewed by Brigitte Baden-Rennie Battersea Arts Centre won an off West End award when Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster first premiered at the Centre in 2018. Seeing this Australian premiere on Tuesday night made it apparently clear why. An audience comprising a wide scope of ages did not just view this production, they were immersed in it. Beginning and ending the evening with a showcase of beatboxing from BACs workshops at...
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...