Depending on which circles you move in, and/or the tone of your voice, describing a play as being perfect Fringe fare can be a ringing endorsement or a dire warning. I want to assure you that, when I say this about Destroyer of Worlds, I mean it in the most complimentary way possible. The “seriously, …
Tag: Tuxedo Cat
Mar 12
FRINGE – Pat Burtscher’s Overwhelmed – Tuxedo Cat – 3.5K
Sitting through Pat Burtscher’s Overwhelmed, is like hanging out with a good mate who is adept at talking intelligent and amusing crap for an hour. His demeanor is friendly, if somewhat self-conscious and fidgety, and he engages his audience with what appears to be a stream of consciousness performance that alters each night and continues …
Mar 03
FRINGE – They Saw a Thylacine – Tuxedo Cat @ Raj House – 4.5K
Two women, two powerful stories set in 1930s Australia. We witness their passions, the battles they faced, the adventures they had and their personal experiences with the last remaining Tasmanian tigers. The thylacine holds a special place in the communal Australian psyche. To most of us, it’s a mystical creature, already long gone by the …
Mar 02
FRINGE – Kraken – Tuxedo Cat @ Raj House – 4K
To the beautiful sounds of Regina Spektor, Trygve Wakenshaw takes to the stage to show off his impressive physicality and delightful humour. He is not afraid to bare all to do this. This short show is apparently a work in progress as Wakenshaw experiments with different characters and audience reactions. It is roughly structured around …
Feb 23
FRINGE – Stuart Bowden: She Was Probably Not a Robot – Tuxedo Cat – 3.5K
Stuart Bowden: She Was Probably Not a Robot, is an endearing mix of silly, sweet and macabre. The end of the world is not nigh, it’s here. The apocalypse is upon us and everyone is dead. If you’re lucky, you might even find out how you died. Well, almost everyone is dead; there is a …
Mar 14
Adelaide Fringe 2013 – Symphony of Strange – Tuxedo Cat
Gareth Hart’s latest offering, Symphony of Strange, is just that – bizarre, eccentric, and plain weird. Set on the top floor of Tuxedo Cat, this show was alien and incredibly outlandish. Endearing themselves immediately to the audience members by providing chilli chocolate and damp washcloths to combat the 39degree night, the performers led us into …
Mar 11
FRINGE: Theatre – Of Dysentery and Madness: A Trapper’s Tale – Tuxedo Cat – 4K
The Trapper (Luke Lennox) is lonely. Something has happened to the rest of his party, Vic (Wil Greenway) and Jemima (Kellie Tori), and the cold nights by himself in Antarctica are getting to him. In between bouts of unconsciousness, he is visited by a range of interesting friends, including Caryn the sardonic penguin (Kathryn Langshaw), …
Feb 26
FRINGE 2013: Theatre – Bane – Tuxedo Cat – 4.5K
A mysterious man is killing the friends and acquaintances of hit man Bruce Bane. While Bane is no stranger to enemies, having found himself on the opposite side of a feud to many an unsavoury character over the years, he’s at a loss to determine who this current adversary is. As the bodies pile up …
Feb 22
FRINGE 2013: Comedy – Lords of Luxury – Tuxedo Cat – 3K
The Lords of Luxury (Dan Debuf, Luke Ryan, Matt Saraceni and Paul Verhoeven) have made a bit of a name for themselves via their comedy podcasts. They bring their particular brand of humour to the Tuxedo Cat this Fringe. There’s not a lot to this show: four friends on a mostly blank stage, a few …
Feb 20
FRINGE 2013: Theatre – Choir Girl – Tuxedo Cat – 4.5K
Susan has a lovely alto voice and a life consisting almost entirely of the obsession of finding a choir to which she can contribute both her talent and her experience. She does after all, come from a long line of choristers and knows the ins and outs of choir etiquette backwards. Unfortunately, Susan’s latest choir …
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