My gift to myself this year was a ticket to the Opening Gala of the Melbourne Comedy Festival, held at the nice & cozy Her Majesty Theatre.
The festival is currently in its 20th year and the Gala was used to raise funds for Oxfam, the well known NGO involved in a lot of charity work.
Reading the local papers I hear this one is considered
one of the top three such events in the world together with the Edinburgh and Montreal festivals.I don't know how much truth is in all that, but this thing seems pretty bug, with 233 shows and more than 3000 performances.
I truly enjoyed myself during the 4 hours of laughter
and it was a great opportunity to discover some of the great names of the genre.As you can see in the pictures here, the night was full of strange characters, altough none as spacey as the Spymonkey group from the UK that you can see jumping around on the stage in their Adam costume. In good faith, there was also an Eve there, you can see part of their performance here.
I am very curious how this thing will be shown on the Aussie channel 10.
The end was matching to the whole performance in its grandeur. Fireworks and confettis ensured this will be a performance that will not be easily forgotten.
Hopefully I'll get to see a lot more of this during the 4-day Easter WeekEnd :)
2 comments:
ahoj nazdar cau!
many greetings from Czech Republic!
Radim, Miriam a Eva :)))
Ionut, nothing to do with the comedy (I am always late, you can see that I am on another meridian, if not planet), which seems interesting:
the story about my colleague and F1 was that at every race, he sits in front of its TV set during all the race, with a beer and wearing its Ferrari coat!!
Some must love more than you and I F1!
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