Flacco
Paul Livingstone
Club Foote
A heavily padded overcoat walks into the spotlight. Gradually a small pale pate appears above the collar, two piercing eyes sweep the room. A pair of binoculars extends from the lower reaches of the coat and continues the surveillance. Then, although not convinced it is safe to, the inhabitant bursts free of the coat and there, in a black leotard with a Union flag loincloth tied to an animal pelt that looks like it has …
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Circus Oz
Rymill Park
Circus Oz were always more fun than a bucket of frogs and their Tenth Anniversary World Tour performances at the Festival must be the best yet.
They have an effortless mix of physical skill, adroit comedy, musical flair and sheer good nature. Tim Coldwell, a founding member of the company, is a genial sight in his baggy suit and size 13 sneakers and straight away the show establishes an ยท easy rapport with the audience.…
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Rowan Atkinson
Opera Theatre.
It is often said that what makes comedy tick is timing. And Rowan Atkinson is expert at it. His performance is rehearsed down to the last pucker, the lines scan like iambic pentameters and it all works like a charm.
As part of the highly successful Not The Nine O’Clock News team, Atkinson’s comedy was distinctively visual and oddly endearing. He can, and has, sparred in more savage comic arenas with the pugnacious Mel …
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Chris Willems
Price Theatre
Chris Willems says he hates mime but nothing could be further from the truth. What he hates is the fact that white mime has become so refined that it has lost all its nutrients.
I Hate Mime is Willems’ third solo show and it follows Son of Romeo, his highly successful lip readers’ digest of Romeo and Juliet. Though unlike Romeo, with its familiar narrative, Willems’ new work is a more …
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Anthony Ackroyd and Geoff Kelso.
Club Foote.
Adelaide has been treated to some great cabaret lately and Anthony Ackroyd and Geoff Kelso’s A Smile, A Song and a Lump of Wood is a good indication that Club Foote in particular has been presenting entertainment of a high caliper. After an agreeable meal at Quiet Waters, with which the club has been making regular dinner deals, we walked with Club Footemen, …
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