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Rod Quantock Changing Regimes Nova Cinema 2 Until March 7 For those of the left persuasion, going to see Rod Quantock during the Fringe is less like going to see a comic than making a pilgrimage. It's where we get the affirmation that the stuff we've either screamed at our loved ones and perhaps even strangers about in the last two years is not just us being a bit 'out there'. We come to share our outrage but also to see a man who can help us to laugh about it. Quantock claimed to have done very little preparation for this show, which, if it is the case, was well concealed. Certainly better concealed than when he said the same in his 2002 show. So he began by researching this town he was coming to and what better place to start than its only newspaper's letters page. Oh yes, we cringed as 'maybe we should let the immigrants who play cricket stay' and the following day's reply of 'I can just see the terrorists practicing their cricket skills now' were read out. The show is a stream of consciousness romp from the fairy curse on John Howard's eyebrows to urine filled balloons at globalisation protests. The delivery was smooth and the humour biting. The 'conspiracy theory' connecting Kyoto and Nauru and some sort of solution - I won't spoil it for you - is blackly funny and the dissection of our terrorism fridge magnet is hilarious. This is balm for the disenchanted and disenfranchised. |
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