Concrete Playground

Some days life is pretty shit. You've lost your job, your partner smells like another person's genitalia and your children/pets would rather eat your leg than show you some love. There's also bills to pay, medical problems to sort out/ignore and the whole world is, apparently, drowning or drying up, or something. A lesser person would grab a gun and climb up a clock tower so as to sew lead into innocent bodies.

A better person would grab a puppet.

Inspired by ye olde anger management Punch and Judy shows of the 19th century, writer/director Brent Thorpe and music director Billy O'Riordan have put together an adult pantomime that'll cure your modern woes. As Australian in taste as Vegemite and yum cha, this show blends burlesque, grotesque, vaudeville and political incorrectness to just the right, gooey consistency.

By Jimmy Dalton