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RSS FeedsDemi Lardner review - an explosion of animated oddities
(The Guardian Culture News)

 
 

24 august 2019 15:55:14

 
Demi Lardner review - an explosion of animated oddities
(The Guardian Culture News)
 


Gilded Balloon Teviot, EdinburghThe Australian standup´s show is stuffed with arbitrary observations - and some of the funniest moments on the fringeAbsurdism-gone-haywire won the 2015 Edinburgh comedy award for her fellow Australian Sam Simmons, and now Demi Lardner is in the running for a show cut from similarly zany plaid. You never know what´s coming next in Ditch Witch 800, a fizzing 50 minutes of sketches, doodles, one-liners, daft dances and out-of-nowhere jingles. One oddity tumbles on top of another, each animated with hyperactive thrust by the 25-year-old - and underpinned by fine writing.It´s an unstable audience experience, as her Tasmanian-devil energy refuses to confine itself to the stage. But there´s no harm done: this is about celebrating the arbitrary together (`You paid to get in!`), and Lardner - a wild-eyed cross between elf and punk - delivers the whole show through suppressed laughter at the thought she´s getting away with it. Continue reading...


 
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