AboutFace Productions were founded in New Zealand in 1994 and they are now a Melbourne-based company “specialising in original and contemporary image-based theatre for all ages.” Past credits include constructing puppets...

If the show Anne Edmonds – You Know What I’m Like sounds familiar, that could be because it did good business at Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2015. That season led to Edmonds receiving the MICF Piece of ...

Rama Nicholas’ combination of writing and performance skill makes her a top exponent of the Fringe one-person show format. Her past offerings After Ever After and Death Rides a Horse did the rounds of Fringe and Comedy F...

You know where you stand with live comedy, opines Purple puppet Randy (McLeod’s Daughters, House Husbands); if a joke doesn’t get laughs, you stop telling it. But with a novel, you have to wait until it’s out in the worl...

Hook Turn by Kin Collective is an assortment of six new vignettes aiming to give “a night of love, loss and laughter”. All referenced by that peculiarly Melbourne traffic manoeuvre of turning right from the left lane. Th...

Listen up, wise guy! The rhythm of life ain’t like that of a typewriter, even if you’re a author. Writer’s block is the least of your worries when your gumshoe character isn’t content to stay on the page, and he’s not th...

Maybe you’ve heard of Impromptunes, one of those shows in which a comedic musical is improvised from audience suggestions. The team behind it are from WAAPA, Ballarat Arts Academy, or VCA, or part of local troupes such a...

A relic from ancient times – yet still referred to by some people today – is the horoscope. Regardless of your opinion of their value, almost everyone in the western world seems to know their star sign. Some ...