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Stand-up comedy is a show or performance in which a comedian performs original jokes on stage in front of a live audience to make them laugh. The jokes are scripted and have setups and punchlines. These comedy monologues are frequently self-deprecating and are based on the life of the comedian giving the audience tacit permission to laugh at and with them. The average stand-up comedy show gets four to six laughs a minute from the audience.

One more female comic is here and smashing the patriarchy at Adelaide Fringe 2023.  This time it is Tania Lacy who has been famous, as well as just a little infamous, since the 90s after stints on Countdown Revolution and The Factory.  Greeting the audience by saying that everything is “pretty good” for her at the moment Lacy reminds us that happy endings don’t usually make for great comedy - or do they?  Fortunately in this case, they do.

“It's not what you do. It's the way you do it - stripping, or writing, or talking . . . or just breathing. Do it with an air, and never admit you're scared.” - Gypsy Rose Lee

YUMMY Productions combine the best of Burlesque and Drag in their latest production YUMMY Iconic. This is the first time I have seen this troupe. From the audience reaction during the intro, they obviously have a fan following which I will now be joining!

It was almost two hundred years ago when The Brothers Grimm published their version of two children abandoned in a forest, but the tale of the siblings who are seduced into a witch’s house had already been around five hundred years before that. Now Lally Katz has built on a concept from Rosemary Myers to retell the story in the near future, with an emphasis on the choices that children make, as much as those of their parents. It challenges us to consider what we’re prepared to sacrifice to get what we want.