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🤣 MICF Review Roundup | Part Two

It's the funniest month of the year, Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

🤡 MICF Review Roundup | Part One

It's the funniest month of the year, Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Highlights so far include a musical about sperm donation, exquisite feminist clown, campy scifi standup and heaps more.

🐰 Every Lovely Terrible Thing by Adam Fawcett

An ambitious exploration of the costs of keeping secrets and the price we pay to tell them.

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👰 ALTAR by Em Tambree

A melancholic hour of reconciliation and reckoning: with the past, the stories we tell about ourselves, and queer futures.

🔪 The Long Pigs by WE3

The Long Pigs is a tight 60 minute clowning spectacular, which takes the art form into an excitingly macabre world featuring some of Australia’s best clowns.

🎙️ Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill by Lanie Robertson

A magnetic performance, sumptuous design, and a carefully constructed narrative come together to create an electrifying insight into the life of one of Jazz's greats.

👻 How Do I Let You Die? by Michele Lee

How Do I Let You Die? is an insightful journey into the cultural and spiritual limbo of a second generation immigrant

🐺 Hour of the Wolf by Matthew Lutton & Keziah Warner

Hour of the Wolf takes all of the idiosyncrasies which made Malthouse's last try at immersive theatre so charming and engrossing, and replaces them with a docile and synthetic attempt at recreating the magic

💐 Orlando by Rachel Lewindon and Willow Sizer

This electro-folk musical adaptation of one of Virginia Woolf's most well-known works is filled with so much joy and wit that I couldn't help but fall in love.

🥁 Manifesto by Stephanie Lake Company

An arresting testament to the potential of optimism which made me want to live more, to be more, and to feel more.

⛹️‍♂️ A Dodgeball Named Desire by Bloomshed

A gloriously insane paean to the stage and everything it can contain.

Writing

🐮 Slim Pickings: the state of fatness on Australian stages

In the absence of fat stories told by fat people, we’re left with a massive elephant in the room.

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🌊 Atlantis by Chanella Macri

Chanella Macri's Atlantis is a passionate and insightful reflection on climate change and the role that Indigenous and Pasifika knowledge systems will have in healing country.