And the Fringe goes on

Two more shows last night - although I almost didn't go to either of them because soon after I got home from work I burst into tears for no readily apparent reason (general tiredness and stress I think). After sobbing on the couch for half an hour, I roused myself, and started walking to North Melbourne, and was lucky enough to score a lift with Sol, my favourite vet in the world, and Keating! producer extraordinaire Catherine Woodfield from Rathdowne Street onwards. Thanks guys.

I then saw some much needed comedy, which cheered me up no end:

Stephen K. Amos

The Lithuanian Club until Saturday 14

Effortlessly engaging with the audience, the smoothly talented Stephen K Amos seemed to spent most of his time improvising in this show, although I'm suere there was a lot of scripted material in there as well; it was just difficult to tell where it started and stopped, and where the improv took over. I was sitting in the front row, but was very clearly not picked on, as I'd chatted with Stephen a few times at Fringe gigs in the past few weeks.

Last night was cheap-arse Tuesday, which brought a lot of backpackers out of the woodwork, if the number of accents I heard while waiting for the houselights to go down was any indication.

I didn't take any notes, so I can't really go into detail as to what subjects Stephen was joking about, but it was very, very funny, and raised my spirits considerably.

The Town Bikes present MILK

Until Saturday 14 at the Lithuanian Club

Part madcap cabaret, part burlesque, part comedy; this new show from The Town Bikes, their first foray into a longer work, was a delerious, hillarious show. I think I gained as much enjoyment from the often befuddled faces of the audiences as I did from the show itself, having already seen a work-in-progress viewing of Milk, and so having some idea of what I was in for:
which included cows kidnapped by flying saucers; an eroticised homage to Heidi and Looney Tunes cartoons; squirting jets of breast milk; and much, much more. Bravo!

Oh, and congratulations to Biker Gabi, and her partner Mr Log III, who are expecting. Bevis's Wifey has just popped out a sprog - it looks like this breeding malarkey is contagious!