 Event |
And That Was the Summer That Changed My Life
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| Venue |
Melbourne Town Hall Lunch Room, Melbourne, VIC |
| Umbrella Event |
Melbourne International Comedy Festival |
| First Date |
31 March 2011 |
| Opening Date |
31 March 2011 |
| Last Date |
24 April 2011 |
| Dates Estimated |
No |
| Status |
Professional |
| World Premiere |
No |
| Description |
Starting out as a school assembly speech - complete with podium and school flag, the show moves into stand-up comedy peppered with musical interludes. Overall, Coombs Marr has good material and she creates a cohesive hour despite the various presentation styles. There's method in the madness (quite amazingly, it's thematically united by a nosebleed) and her jokes about female classmates, her priest father, growing up in country New South Wales and a hilarious love poem derived from dinosaur names are all on the money. The humour will probably mostly appeal to twenty and thirty-somethings for |
| Description Source |
Reviewer's Opinion |
| Primary Genre |
Theatre - Spoken Word
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| Secondary Genre |
Comedy
One Person Show
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| Organisations |
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| Contributors |
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| Text Nationality |
Australia
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| Production Nationality |
Australia
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| Event Status |
Completed
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| Data Source |
| Source |
Description |
| Review |
http://www.australianstage.com.au/reviews/micf-2011/and-that-was-the-summer-that-changed-my-life-%7C-zoe-coombs-marr.html |
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| Data Set |
AusStage |
| Event Identifier |
97309 |
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