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3 weeks ago | 
watoday.com.au | Hannah Francis |John Bailey |Mikey Cahill |Sonia Nair
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3 weeks ago | 
theage.com.au | Hannah Francis |John Bailey |Mikey Cahill |Sonia Nair
By Hannah Francis, John Bailey, Mikey Cahill, Sonia Nair, Tyson Wray and Vyshnavee Wijekumar March 28, 2025 — 2.03pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. From a performer who taps into Lynchian surrealism to a comedian who performs without pants, this year’s comedy festival is in full swing. Keep an eye on our ever-growing list of reviews here.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
theage.com.au | Andrew Fuhrmann |Hannah Francis |Sonia Nair |Tyson Wray
Lively and sensitive direction, tennis-inspired set design, intelligent lighting and sound all support the performances, enlivening material which could easily have been flattened by nostalgia or stretched on the rack of sentimentality. It’s uplifting, mature theatre, guaranteed to leave you smiling.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
theage.com.au | Guy F. Webster |Hannah Francis |John Bailey |Lefa Singleton Norton
The best joke of the festival was life itself. When John Kearns asked an audience member to recount the ending of Raymond Briggs’ perennial tearjerker The Snowman they describe his death-by-melting as going “back to normal”. Kearns only needed a few choice words to extend the implication: the complete dissolution of the self and the black pit of oblivion that awaits us all? That’s us just going back to normal.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Guy F. Webster |Hannah Francis |John Bailey |Lefa Singleton Norton
The best joke of the festival was life itself. When John Kearns asked an audience member to recount the ending of Raymond Briggs' perennial tearjerker The Snowman they describe his death-by-melting as going "back to normal". Kearns only needed a few choice words to extend the implication: the complete dissolution of the self and the black pit of oblivion that awaits us all? That's us just going back to normal.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
brisbanetimes.com.au | Hannah Francis |Cher Tan |Mikey Cahill |Sonia Nair
By Hannah Francis, Cher Tan, Mikey Cahill, Sonia Nair and Vyshnavee Wijekumar March 28, 2024 — 11.47am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. From a heist (and some escalating nudity) to a first-time performer who has proven himself one to watch, this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival has gotten off to a roaring start. Keep an eye on our ever-growing list of reviews here.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Hannah Francis |Cher Tan |Mikey Cahill |Sonia Nair
But the show is also about Glover's life as a gay man, as well as his job working in marketing in Sydney alongside gormless colleagues. More screenshots abound. Razor-sharp one-liners are aplenty and timing is spot-on. Glover's transitions are a delight to follow, as he bounces from gay life to office life to internet life and back again. But the lines between these different parts of his existence also often blur because such is life now.
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
neweconomics.org | Hannah Francis
Blog Young people of colour are perceived as ‘more adult’ than their peers - often with devastating consequences.
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Apr 20, 2023 | 
theage.com.au | Sonia Nair |Stephen Russell |Hannah Francis
Most stand-out moment in a showThe entirety of Liz Kingsman's One Woman Show is a stand-out. The lighting, the audio design, not to mention the razor-sharp writing and performance. Just incredible. If there had to be one stand-out: it'd be the finale. No spoilers. - Tyson WrayIt's between Garry Starr emerging bottom-first out of a makeshift vagina - a Star(r) was born - or Jordan Gray materialising out of an onstage phone booth in her superhero costume.
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Apr 20, 2023 | 
brisbanetimes.com.au | Sonia Nair |Stephen Russell |Hannah Francis |Tyson Wray
By Tyson Wray, Sonia Nair, Vyshnavee Wijekumar, Mikey Cahill, Stephen A Russell, Donna Demaio and Hannah Francis April 21, 2023 — 6.00am For the past month our team of reviewers have immersed themselves in everything the Melbourne International Comedy Festival has to offer – from a show that attempts to cover the entirety of Greek mythology in the space of an hour, to an interactive video game that looks like it came straight from the ’80s, to a performer so charming an audience member is...
