Live comedy’s lack of regulation has enabled sexist and predatory behaviour but a group of female standups have ambitious plans to overhaul the industryIrish comedian Ruth Hunter started standup in 2015. She immediately noticed “everyday sexism” – male…
Continue ReadingOnlineCho’s live-streamed Valentine’s Day sex advice workshop encompassed BDSM, bestiality and the fun that can be had with ‘pervertible’ household objectsValentine’s Day is a celebration of love and romance, I’d thought, with a bit of commerce thrown …
Continue ReadingOnlineCho’s live-streamed Valentine’s Day sex advice workshop encompassed BDSM, bestiality and the fun that can be had with ‘pervertible’ household objectsValentine’s Day is a celebration of love and romance, I’d thought, with a bit of commerce thrown …
Continue ReadingOnlineRachel Fairburn’s showcase aroused funny bones, if not G-spots, with Shappi Khorsandi, Lou Sanders and Will DugganIf ever there was a time for comedians to diversify their skills, it’s as we enter a second year of closed theatres. Rachel Fairburn…
Continue ReadingOnlineRachel Fairburn’s showcase aroused funny bones, if not G-spots, with Shappi Khorsandi, Lou Sanders and Will DugganIf ever there was a time for comedians to diversify their skills, it’s as we enter a second year of closed theatres. Rachel Fairburn…
Continue ReadingThe identically dressed quintet combines dance, comedy and DIY electro-punk in a world they have created for themselvesHow to describe the joy of watching people dancing in unison? Anthropologists talk about synchronous activities leading to a sense of…
Continue ReadingBroadway critics sneered at Perfect’s ‘Australian-bred’ musicals Beetlejuice and King Kong, but in his new stage show he has the last laughThey say the best revenge is a life lived well, but Eddie Perfect has trumped that. The savage theatre critics we…
Continue ReadingOur series on films about theatre continues with a boozy, darkly funny comedy that captures the event’s pick’n’mix qualityNo matter how much you miss theatre, you still wouldn’t want to see Lakes Sister, an earnest one-woman show about Dorothy Wordswor…
Continue ReadingAvailable onlineFelicity Ward and Tony Law star in the event’s opening cabaret, First Night Funnies, with false starts and flat-out laughs“Thank you all so much for coming out,” is how Prince Abdi greets us at the top of his set. If only it were so! I’…
Continue ReadingAvailable onlineFelicity Ward and Tony Law star in the event’s opening cabaret, First Night Funnies, with false starts and flat-out laughs“Thank you all so much for coming out,” is how Prince Abdi greets us at the top of his set. If only it were so! I’…
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