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🤣 MICF Review Roundup | Part Two
It's the funniest month of the year, Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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Reflections and reviews of performances from around Narrm (Melbourne).
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🤡 MICF Review Roundup | Part One
It's the funniest month of the year, Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Highlights so far include a musical about sperm donation, exquisite feminist clown, campy scifi standup and heaps more.
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🐰 Every Lovely Terrible Thing by Adam Fawcett
An ambitious exploration of the costs of keeping secrets and the price we pay to tell them.
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👰 ALTAR by Em Tambree
A melancholic hour of reconciliation and reckoning: with the past, the stories we tell about ourselves, and queer futures.
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🔪 The Long Pigs by WE3
The Long Pigs is a tight 60 minute clowning spectacular, which takes the art form into an excitingly macabre world featuring some of Australia’s best clowns.
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🎙️ Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill by Lanie Robertson
A magnetic performance, sumptuous design, and a carefully constructed narrative come together to create an electrifying insight into the life of one of Jazz's greats.
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👻 How Do I Let You Die? by Michele Lee
How Do I Let You Die? is an insightful journey into the cultural and spiritual limbo of a second generation immigrant
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🐺 Hour of the Wolf by Matthew Lutton & Keziah Warner
Hour of the Wolf takes all of the idiosyncrasies which made Malthouse's last try at immersive theatre so charming and engrossing, and replaces them with a docile and synthetic attempt at recreating the magic
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💐 Orlando by Rachel Lewindon and Willow Sizer
This electro-folk musical adaptation of one of Virginia Woolf's most well-known works is filled with so much joy and wit that I couldn't help but fall in love.
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🥁 Manifesto by Stephanie Lake Company
An arresting testament to the potential of optimism which made me want to live more, to be more, and to feel more.
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⛹️♂️ A Dodgeball Named Desire by Bloomshed
A gloriously insane paean to the stage and everything it can contain.
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🌊 Atlantis by Chanella Macri
Chanella Macri's Atlantis is a passionate and insightful reflection on climate change and the role that Indigenous and Pasifika knowledge systems will have in healing country.
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🥾 My Sister Jill by Patricia Cornelius
An expertly crafted and sharp critique of the machinery of war
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🥵 Burnout Paradise by Pony Cam
A messy, clever, and jubilant physicalisation of burnout