IMPROV ATTACKS HUMANITY

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https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2019/shows/improv-attacks-humanity

Date Reviewed: 04/04/2019

Melbourne is gifted and blessed by cultural events, and certainly the Comedy Festival claims serious bragging rights on the Aussie cultural landscape.

In recent years the Edinburgh Festival in all its panoply of guises has been bossed by the Fringe, and especially comedy.

Unlike the big beast in the Scottish jungle, Melbourne does not lean heavily on OS luminaries but rather leans heavily on local talent.

Numerous wannabes, venues, and burghers of the oft claimed most liveable city in the world forge a dynamic, outspoken, bawdy, protesting, left field, andti-authoritarian army of mirth and merriment from late March, once the Grand Prix petrol heads inhale the intoxicating fumes of the AFL.
Impro is the heartbeat of comedy and spontaneous wit emerges with clarity and speed amidst observations, see enfant terrible, Robbie Williams as prime example.

Impro by its very nature is hit and miss, funny and not.

Last night at Kicks, the greatest innovation to the old warhorse of an impro show, was getting the audience to participate in a known card game that served as a catalyst to create plots and characterisation.

No lights, no props, no costumes, no music, but the boutique ensemble swung into their drills on themes from Jehova’s Witnesses to zeitgeist bad boy footballers.

Some lines grab immediately, others sink like the Titanic.

A rollicking good romp as you can almost see the purple smoke coming out the casts’ ears....You pay your money, you take your chances.

Review by Warren Wills