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· Macbeth

Fringe Features:
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· Adam Vincent
· Cake
· Comedy 4 Kids
· Damian Callinan
· Dave Bloustien
· Dave Williams
· The Good Body
· LaLaLuna
· The Lost Babylon
· Miss Blossom Callahann
· Rod Quantock
· Tripod
· The Umbilical Brothers
· White Men With Weapons

Reviews:
· 4:48 Psychosis
· 52 Pick Up
· Anthony Jucha
· Best Of Adelaide Comedy
· Charlie Pickering
· Craig Egan
· Cream Of Irish
· Dancing At Lughnasa
· Eddie Perfect
· Felix Listens To The World
· Justin Hamilton
· Kransky Sisters
· La Clique
· Michael Chamberlin
· Omon Ra
· Pricks
· Tales From The Erotic Cat
· Telefunken
· The Bogus Woman
· The Moirai
· The Sixth Sense
· The Space Cowboy
· The Travellers
· Under Milk Wood
· Waiting For Guinness
· Candy Butchers
· Circuit Breaker
· The Dolls 'In Freudian Slips'
· Burlesque Hour
· Wilson Dixon
· Tomas Ford's 'Cabaret Of Death'
· Sista She 'Inna Thigh'
· Ross Noble
· De Niro: Behind The Mask
· Dave Bloustien 'ST*RF*CK*R'
· Angry Young Man
· Devolution
· Judith Lucy 'I Failed'
· Leah Purcell 'The Good Body'
· '2 Connect'
· Akmal Live!
· Black Crown Lullabies
· BritCom... edy
· The Bubonic Play
· Circus Elysium 'The Last Days Of Mankind'
· Circus Ole
· Greg Fleet
· Heart Of Daftness
· Penny Ashton 'Hot Pink Bits'
· The Lost Babylon
· M[o]th
· Katrina Miani 'Reality TV Freak'
· The Somewhat Secret Secret Society Show
· Tom Gleeson
· Zack Adams 'A Complete History'
· Visual Arts and Venues Guide Launch

Adelaide Festival of Arts 2006

Adelaide Fringe Festival 2006


Sam Simmons' Tales From The Erotic Cat
Vanilla Productions
The Garden Shed
Until Sat 18 March



Immediately, this rates as one of the most offbeat, oddball and definitely most original and funniest shows I've ever seen. What can one say about a rather dorkish man who - from the edge of the stage - stands there and after giving you a brief but very comprehensive run down of his entire life from conception to right up until he turned twenty-five, begins to use childishly drawn cartoons on a flip board to tell you everything you didn't want to know about him.

He is surprisingly well sung, but musically bland and he dances terribly to songs (and the occasional cardboard cut out puppet). Here is a man who lists one of his greatest adolescent achievements as learning to write the word 'boobs' on his calculator and takes great pleasure from playing made up games like 'Wood, Wood, Not Wood' and 'Connect Four' in the nude and believes that his grandmother yells out obscenities every time someone in the world steps on an ice cream cone.

Here is a man who sings songs about chutney, Kenyan bread and crick necked cave women and actively taunts sales assistants at $2 shops and, I kid you not, uses his face to play jazz and was once a contestant on a TV game show where the winner gets to yell at a cat...


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