Reviews

On Friday night I made my way to the Greek Centre in the city to see Sydney-based comedian Anthony Locascio perform his solo show about “some morally questionable things he’s done in his life, and how he has reconciled them with finding love and happiness”. This is an encore performance of Anthony's highly successful Melbourne International Comedy Festival show, after his 2022 show “Don’t call me a wog!” which I unfortunately didn’t make it to. 

Let’s Kill Agatha Christie was written by prolific Hammer Horror screen writer Anthony Hinds. Hinds wrote for most of the second half of the 20th century, publishing this script in 1990 specifically for amateur actors. It is a melodramatic romp which parodies Agatha Christie and exploits every trope of the genre.

There is a cast of nine. Tombs, the butler, may or may not be all he seems. Played by Kyle Enniss with a cockney accent, Tombs is intrinsic to the action, ubiquitous, somewhat sinister but essential to the comedy.

When Jack’s brother marries an immigrant, everyone’s talking. The backyard wedding is a clash of cultures, where footy mates joke, alcohol flows, and his grandfather disapproves.

June (Caroline Lee) has been silent for over a year.  Now she has decided to speak – to us, the audience.  She asks us to understand.  By the end of the play, we will.  June is an ‘ordinary woman’, middle-aged, in frumpy clothes, hair pulled back in a ponytail.  Married, two children.  Now an isolate who chose silence.