LIVE: SARA PASCOE – PERTH COMEDY FESTIVAL, 2 May 2025 Astor Theatre, Perth Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar It’s the last show of Sara Pascoe’s Australian tour and nothing is off limits – not her husband and his canoe-sized shoes, not her parents-in-law with whom she’s been staying in Sydney, not Clive Palmer, and most of […]
FRINGE WORLD FESTIVAL REVIEW: ROSS NOBLE: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES – 28 Jan 2025 Theatre Royale, Northbridge, Western Australia Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 80% Imagine a carnival – a fair of sorts, like the Royal Show’s Carnival Alley, except this one is an embodiment of Ross Noble’s manic, scatological, cluttered mind. With inflatables in his image […]
FRINGE WORLD FESTIVAL REVIEW: STORIES FROM THE OFFICE OF A SEX DUNGEON – 25 Jan 2025 The Balmoral Hotel, Victoria Park, Perth, Western Australia Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 68% When you take a job as manager of a New York BDSM sex dungeon (albeit one on the sixth story of a respectable office building) to […]
FRINGE WORLD FESTIVAL REVIEW: WILLING PARTICIPANT : ROB CARLTON – 25 Jan 2025 State Theatre Centre, Northbridge, Perth, Western Australia Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 95% Rob Carlton is a Logie Award-winning actor and a masterful raconteur, delivering four engaging human stories from his life over the course of one immensely entertaining hour. It’s not […]
PERTH FRINGE WORLD FESTIVAL REVIEW: AWOL 22 Jan 2025 Written by Rob Gee Starring Shane Adamczak & Jon Patterson State Theatre Centre, Northbridge, Western Australia By Shane Pinnegar 80% Subtitled “2 Old Men Escape From A Care Home & Go To A Metal Festival,” AWOL isn’t pulling any punches about that’s about to happen. Canadian […]
PERTH FRINGE WORLD FESTIVAL REVIEW: THE 1940s NATIONAL RESONATOR GUITAR 17 Jan 2025 By Dave Lawrence – The Ambassador Bar, Northbridge, Western Australia By Shane Pinnegar 70% Gifted a beautiful old National Resonator guitar by his mother for his fiftieth birthday led Dave Lawrence – a veteran journeyman alongside Abi Tucker, The Waifs’ Donna Simpson, […]
PERTH FRINGE WORLD FESTIVAL REVIEW: DAN LEES VINYL COUNTDOWN 22 Jan 2025 The Parlour at The Pleasure Garden, Northbridge, Western Australia By Shane Pinnegar 70% You might call Dan Lees a very silly person, but I prefer to think of him as a master of energetic absurdist comedy. This show hangs on the premise that […]
PERTH FRINGE WORLD REVIEW: HOW NOT TO RUN A MUSIC FESTIVAL, 19 Jan 2025 By Tess Birch, The Laugh Resort at The Shoe – Perth, Western Australia Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 75% Tess Birch accidentally ran a boutique music festival a few hours out of Melbourne six times in an eight-year period and the lawyer […]
COMEDY LIVE: EDDIE IZZARD – Perth, 5 March, 2019 Perth Concert Hall, Perth, Western Australia Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar To say Eddie Izzard is a high achiever almost feels like short-changing the high profile, transgender star. He’s an actor, stand-up comedian, multi-linguist performer, activist, charity icon and soon-to-be politician, running for British parliament after the […]
LIVE: Brewed Laughter at Fringe World Creatures next Door, Friday, 16 February, 2018 Reviewed by Brian Dunne It is genuinely difficult to say anything positive about this FRINGE WORLD show, which is a shame as there certainly were a few funny moments during the ‘performance’, however these were effectively nullified by long sections of the […]
LIVE: DAVE CALLAN in Every Video Clip Ever @ Fringe World Festival, Perth Friday, 2 February, 2018 – runs until 11 Feb Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar If ever you’ve fancied seeing a “man who looks like a Viking dancing in a comedy way,” then get thee to Dave Callan’s Every Video Clip Ever show at […]
LIVE: BILL BAILEY – Larks In Transit – Perth Riverside Theatre, Perth – Sunday, 27 November, 2016 Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar Bill Bailey combines the intellectual absurdities of Monty Python to great effect with the manic energy and charming talkativeness of Billy Connelly, and in this, his 30th year as a comedian, and 20th year […]
COMEDY: RUSSELL BRAND, Perth – 20 October, 2015 Perth Arena Reviewed by Trulie Pinnegar Russell Brand appears on the stage quite humbly compared to his 2013 show, following a video intro of clips focussing on his celebrity. He doesn’t seem uncomfortable, however, within just a few minutes undertaking his classic move of taking a walk […]
LIVE: AL MURRAY, Perth, 12 October, 2015 The Astor Theatre, Monday, 12 October, 2015 Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar Australia was in for a treat as Al Murray brought his Pub Landlord character Down Under for his first complete national tour. Riffing on a staggering array of topics and showing incredible recall for his audience targets […]
Live at The Astor Theatre, Perth By Shane Pinnegar I recently reviewed Stephen Merchant’s Live standup comedy tour “Hello Ladies” for Xpress Magazine – read it HERE
A FINAL TASTE OF HALE & PACE Burswood Theatre, Perth 1 Oct 2011 By Shane & Trulie Pinnegar For 30 years Gareth Hale & Norman Pace have entertained us through TV shows and live performances and finally they have decided that enough is enough – cue “A final taste of Hale & Pace” Characters such […]
Eddie Izzard – Stripped Burswood Theatre 18 Nov 2011 By Shane Pinnegar Eddie Izzard’s ‘action transvestite’ character was nowhere to be seen tonight at the Burswood Theatre, but his manic energy, razor sharp wit and keen sense of the absurd was out in spades as he rambled through a hugely entertaining series of rants over […]
David Strassman – Careful What You Wish For Regal Theatre, Perth 15 June 2012 By Shane Pinnegar To call David Strassman a ventriloquist seems to rather understate the case – the man is a genius comedy writer, master of the absurd, amazing ventriloquist and animatronics expert, and his latest show weaves a complex story of […]
BILL BAILEY The Riverside Theatre, Perth, Western Australia Sunday 26th August, 2012 By Shane Pinnegar Is there anyone who sincerely believes our Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition are intelligent, charismatic leaders with a vibrant vision for the country’s future? Certainly not UK comedian BILL BAILEY, who launches into a scathing tirade about these […]
An Evening With John Cleese Regal Theatre, Perth 22 January 2012 By Shane Pinnegar John Cleese, comedy legend, presented his latest stand up show in the form of an on stage interview, a (very) short Q&A with the audience, and then a series of recollections and amusing anecdotes from throughout his career, never once missing […]
