Winners at Life in association with Campfire Collective. Rhino Room - Downstairs, Mar 1 to 12
DeAnne Smith: tiny, witty, musical, and technologically challenged - well, mainly just in GarageBand. Oh, and a lesbian. I don't think she'd mind me mentioning it since she does... A lot! But it's all very funny and in context so it works to her advantage.
On her second visit to Adelaide in under six months, Smith has brought mostly new material to the 2011 Fringe with just a bit of overlap from last year's efforts. About Freakin' Time pokes fun at various parts of daily life, big and small. Relationships and religion get high rotation amongst a swag of hilariously dry quips and tongue-in-cheek musical comedy, with accompaniment from electronic ukulele.
Smith divulges the pros and cons of love and life in an all-female partnership and reveals her take on god, politics and dolphins. Her musical interludes are clever and funny, and she manages to successfully fill 6.5 minutes of spontaneous hilarity based entirely on audience suggestions. Smith delivers a great night of laughs but FYI: you may find yourself promising to write her a theme song in GarageBand before you can leave!
Nicole Russo
