Mainly kind and occasionally catty reviews of Sydney theatre, art, comedy and sundry. It’s impossible to say just what a thing is in this world, but here’s to trying, and trying not to be dull.
Two Cents: Nun Slut (Sydney Fringe)
There is an orgiastic floor-duster sequence, a communion that becomes a tasty cheeseboard that becomes a body horror game of chubby bunny, a high-energy youth camp leader, and an appearance from Barnaby Joyce at Sunday church with his mistress. Be warned and praise be: there are things you will not be able to unsee.
Two Cents: Forget Me, Please (Sydney Fringe)
With two striking and natural performances in Kala Gare and Shannen Alyce Quan, Forget Me, Please is a meditation on what each individual person can stand to remember and forget. With a clear sci-fi lineage from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, this play by Sophie Davis unfolds as a tragic love story that just happens to be queer.
Two Cents: The Pole Shebang (Sydney Fringe)
A uniquely engaging show that ends in Pikachu in pleasers, Lui’s The Pole Shebang is an inspired, introspective and warmly candid journey of self-discovery – and of being a baddie on your own terms.
Two Cents: Odie (Sydney Fringe)
When its hour had run, the small sold-out crowd erupted, then sat there spellbound for a few more moments, gawping at each other’s gobsmacked faces, grinning and dazed. I’m still shaking my head. This is why we roll the dice at Fringe.
Two Cents: Dial M for Mushrooms (Sydney Fringe)
Zany and deranged, this musical comedy imagines the jury of the Mushroom Murders in their final deliberations.