Friday, 5 May 2000

Suburban Riot, April 5, 2000

 by Denise Scott, at Cloak Room Melbourne Town Hall until April 23, 2000
Melbourne International Comedy Festival 
Reviewer: Kate Herbert
 Reviewed on same night as Wil Anderson. KH'

Denise Scott is a very different kettle of jokes (...from Wil Anderson. See previous review done on same night.) 

She is unconcerned looking pretty on stage but is absolutely adorable. She appears, tossed like a rag doll into a battered armchair, with her face and clothing smeared with bush-fire ash,

This is a theatrical comedy show. Although Scottie presents as herself, she takes us no a journey through her childhood in daggy Greensborough where nothing ever happens until the bushfires in 1964.

She sings catholic hymns, shows us slides or her childhood achievements and strips to her sequined green callisthenics outfit for a demo of her prowess.

She is comfortable with her audience who feel like old friends by the end of the slide show. Suburban Riot is just that: a riot.

by Kate Herbert



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