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Anthony Jucha '& Other Difficulties' Wheatsheaf Hotel Sat 25 Feb After his bare all expos during the 2004 festival, which received varying degrees of bad reviews (read: vastly misunderstood), Anthony Jucha has decided to gather up all the overtly ambitious thespian flare and spirit within and take matters further; after all this new show is clearly all about him and how dare the press attack his well meaning integrity? Struggling between his professional career as a lawyer and, of all things, a wannabe comedian, Jucha demonstrates his aspirations over the years: dressing up as Patsy Bisco and reading an occasionally flawed, but otherwise cutely conceived story of a little sea monster that he wrote when he was eight. Fast forward 2004 - post-Fringe: and because of the confronting nature of his show the repercussions begin to set in, both personally and professionally, and life descends towards depression where he even receives death threats from Fat Cat. That is until he gets a posting as a legal councillor in Port Pirie representing the town drunks and such-like. Taking on a couple of Baxter Detention Centre refugees, this leads him to his own, albeit humble, practice in Sydney. As a lawyer, Jucha is a true advocate whose social conscious steadily rides alongside the challenge of his profession. As a performer he's bold and starkly confessional, often overstepping boundaries not so much for a cheap laugh, but to further recreate many inspired moments as he so openly lays it bare before you. There's some method behind his madness, or is that the other way around? You be the judge.  |
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