If you win a plane ticket as a prize, it’s probably part of an elaborate scheme by an awful musician to get revenge on everyone who did something bad to him. (From the Argentine-Spanish movie Wild Tales) It’s more comfortable to smuggle yourself into France on a goods train than underneath a truck. (From the…
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Feb
I made some changes for Friday the 12th’s performance of My Argentina: Learning Spanish and Loving Thatcher, and forgot every line in my final rehearsal! A half hour power nap solved that problem. I was also fighting off a sore throat, but that was good because it naturally made my voice a little deeper and…
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Feb
Wonderfully well! I was nervous before (though a chicken and egg burger helped!), but relaxed once I was on stage. That was in part because I had a great supportive audience. It was nice catching up with old friends. Being Perth, all sorts of people knew each other and met up for the first time…
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Feb
One reason I’m doing a show at Perth’s Fringe World 2016 is a show that I saw at Fringe World 2014. It was called Absolutely. I think my friend and I wanted to see something at The Blue Room Theatre, where, over a decade earlier, I’d staged both a play and a one-man show. A…
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Feb
A dramatic re-enactment of the movie Titanic, with a toy boat and ice cubes. Comedians acting out Star Trek fans who want to have operations to look like Mr Spock. The world record for most sips in 30 seconds during a Neil Diamond song. When I saw Facty Fact at Fringe World 2015, it was…
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Feb
The Fringe World website suggests that you see a random show. Which is what I did one Monday night at Fringe World 2015. I’d just seen a magic show and was going to a comedy act at a pub, but that wasn’t starting for an hour and three-quarters. I picked The Lion, The Bitch and…
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Feb
Is that a Dalek on top of the falls? The Daleks were the first, and remain the most successful, alien monster in the TV series Doctor Who. Why were they so popular? As as writer, I’d like to think it was the writing. But the Daleks have been portrayed in many different ways. In their first story,…
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Feb
Florida (pronounced flor-EE-dah) is a pedestrian mall in the central shopping district of Buenos Aires. When I walked through the streets of Cusco, Peru (the nearest city to Machu Picchu), I was so obviously a tourist that I was constantly asked if I wanted to: get my shoes polished (odd when I was wearing sneakers); have…
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Jan
