Joanne McNally: Wine Tamer
Gig review by Alex Bruce at the Soho Theatre, London
16/04/2019 … Joanne McNally’s show – although helped by fantastic crowd work, pacing and audience rapport – flits randomly between invented viewpoints, some…
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Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Tue 16 April 2019
Blake Freeman: There's Something There
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
16/04/2019 … An absolute natural on stage and an authentic voice from the under-represented young working class, Blake Freeman is easily worthy of his best newcomer nomination…
Wil Anderson: Wil-Informed
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
16/04/2019 … Reflecting on his 23rd successive Melbourne comedy festival show, Will Anderson’s thoughts turn to his place in the world as a middle-aged white man.
Raw Comedy national final 2019
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
16/04/2019 … You would expect – or at least hope – to find some real talent once the 1,038 would-be comedians who entered Australia’s nationwide Raw competition…
Mon 15 April 2019
© Button Hall Productions Image Type: Portraits Programme Maker: Monumental Ghosts
15/04/2019 … So the Horrible History team have moved, via family-friendly Yonderland, into the realm of adult sitcom.
Sun 14 April 2019
Danielle Walker: Myths and Legends
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
14/04/2019 … The way Danielle Walker portrays it, her native Townsville could be as strange and magical place as Narnia – and occupied by just as fantastical a collection…
Lessons With Luis: Stickin Together
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
14/04/2019 … Lessons With Luis are all about gentility and kindness, so it feels like punching a kitten to report that this show is a weak offering.
Sat 13 April 2019
Andy Matthews & Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall: Magma
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
13/04/2019 … This show – or, rather, engineering presentation – has no less ambition that solving all mankind’s problems, from prejudice to the order…