Reviews

This one-hour production of Madagascar is delightful and genuinely entertaining for all ages.  Remarkably, it was prepared and staged in two weeks.

The first week of FringeWorld is a great week to try and attract a teacher audience - with a crowd still on holidays, but anxious for some sympathetic entertainment before returning to the frontlines in a few days. 

Presented by Ty Gray (pictured), a Secondary Drama teacher, it features Ty and (theoretically) three other teachers with classroom-based humour.

Our Stories Our Motherland, presented by The Outsiders and State of Play, as part of FringeWorld. Playing for just two nights, in one of FringeWorld’s biggest venues, this touching and well-presented show deserved a bigger audience.

Primarily a poetic piece, it is presented by three African women with a beautiful countenance and excellent rapport, who not only perform but authored the work. Excellent writing and delivery by Abak Lual, Vuma Phiri and Nidal Saeed.

Definitely better than a Vegemite smoothie, Wage Against the Machine is a standup and storytelling blend which is a tribute to the absurdity of everyday work. Presented by Melbourne-based comedian Matt Harvey, it is part of State of Play at FringeWorld.

An affable and likeable red head with a larrikin streak, Matt talks about unions (you should be in one), the evil work practices of Amazon, robot debt, wage theft and saving the lives of eighteen people on a runaway roller coaster.