Liza Dezfouli, Journalist
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Alex Williamson
"The character's an exaggerated version of myself. I play in the local footy club, play games and shit, do things people do, listen to a whole pile of music."
Flowerchildren: The Mamas & Papas Story
That we care by the end of it that three of them died prematurely says much about the show – I came away feeling I’d gotten a real sense of these people’s personalities. Top, top stuff.
Neon Extra
From a festival director’s international perspective, Melbourne is the best city in the world for independent theatre makers, asserted Sheehy. We already know it, but we still like to hear it.
Trippin' Tales
"I have more of an understanding of what drives people to seek and experience humour."
A Contract Of Love
The conversation comprised a vigorous and inspired debate with each panellist agreeing on how privileged we were to be having it in the first place.
Melbourne Youth Music: Chicken Run
This concert was clearly plenty of fun for those involved.
Jon Bennett: Fire In The Meth Lab
Bennett occasionally overstates the case by repeating himself and sometimes his English is sloppy ('a fire began to start') but these are quibbles.
She Knows Too Much
Surprisingly different, unscripted show by two newbies to MICF, circus performer Debra Batten and dancer Catherine Magill.
Cal Wilson: Cal Wilson Is Guilty
She successfully builds a real feeling of safety in the space, given that inviting audience members to share guilty secrets could easily bring up some unpleasant moments.
Ruby Wax: Out Of Her Mind
Wax brings her comic style, astringent, cynical and disrespectful, to her own story of a common yet unvoiced affliction and she's still as funny as all hell.
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