Melbourne International Comedy Festival
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Too busy? Me?
I read an interesting article on the saying no to the Cult of Busyness yesterday. It advocates doing only one thing at a time, and I can’t say I’m completely on board with that, but I do think that our society undervalues down-time. I’m particularly bad at this, juggling a few competing priorities; social contact, work,…
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Comedy Festival – GO!
Last night was the first night of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF). I went out to see two shows; Mel Buttle’s Up to Pussy’s Bow and Luisa Omielan’s Am I Right Ladies? Two beautiful, strong, funny women. I bought this awesome Bumper Book for Boys, published in 1938, from Mel for 35cents. I’m looking…
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Sometimes it just doesn’t work
Last month I wrote a super angry poem for my poetry group. It was confused and ranty and not very good. I can look at it now and see that. I had massaged it so that I could keep a couple of lines I was really enamoured of, at the expense of content. The group was…
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Alright, that’s it, you can all go home
And so it was that we came to closing night of the MICF for this year. I have some mixed feelings about my festival experience. I saw nine shows, which is more I think than any year previously, but I also wanted to see so many more shows but didn’t/couldn’t for various reasons. I mean…
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Lucky Dip and Luisa
Yep, it’s another Melbourne International Comedy Festival post. I’ve had a bit of a cold over the Easter Weekend so I didn’t get to as many shows as I would have liked but I’ve got another three to add to my list. Ali McGregor / Late Nite Variety Nite Night. It’s lovely and good value.…
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So the Melbourne International Comedy Festival opened yesterday…
… and I’ve already seen three shows (one was a preview, technically, so I saw that on Thursday). Here follows super short review of each. Number 1: Free Wil / Wil Anderson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wMd0tkSVu0 Most people who live in Australia know Wil Anderson. I hadn’t seen him live before but I thought why not! So I…
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Short Thoughts: The Return of the King
Thursday night was my sixth Melbourne International Comedy Festival Show for the season. I went to La Mama Theatre in Carlton, my companion and I bought a ticket, we waited until the allotted time to shuffle in, sat down, and realised, this was not the show the thought it would be. La Mama, it turns out,…
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Shorts Thoughts – Two for the price of one!
Last night was my fourth Melbourne International Comedy festival show for 2014 – ‘Laughable’ by Jennifer Wong. I feel like I need to tell you how I made the decision to see Wong’s show, because it’s important to me. After having booked my tickets to Frank Woodley and The Boy with Tape on his Face,…
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Short Thoughts: Winter is Coming
Show three of my MICF for 2014 was ‘Winter is Coming‘ performed by Backwards Anorak. As you may be able to tell, the show was a Game of Thrones parody. The first thing I should probably mention is that I’m not a Game of Thrones fan – I’ve never attempted to read the books, and…
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