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Michael Chamberlin & The Ten Commandments The Rhino Room Until Sat 18 March Michael Chamberlin's style is kind of a cross between Stephen Curry and John Safran, in that he's both little brotherish with his altar boy looks and passively excited narration and, his astute, fearlessly cynical smartarse loud and lispy commentary. Here's a guy who's obviously taken heed of his Catholic upbringing and somewhere along the way he's decided to run with it. As the show's title suggests, Chamberlin takes on life's original moral constitution and, with his own derailed sense of values, amends each of the ten rulings. Using vox-pop recordings from high school students to re-establish the actual gist of God's handover, Chamberlin then steps to the front of the stage to deliver some of the funniest, most blasphemous material this side of a Danish newspaper's comic page. Yes, this is riotous stuff folks; speaking of which, by Chamberlin's reckoning the word Cronulla is actually aboriginal for irony. And here's where it's hard to refute some of his findings, for while we mostly just abide by God's law, very few stop to ask why. I mean, how many people have ever stopped to question God's parenting skills? Contemporary and concise and acerbically correct, if there was to be an eleventh commandment it would read: 'Thou shalt not miss this show'.  |
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