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Mr Braithwaite Has a New Boy (2 stars)

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Adoption, inheritance, a raunchy rent boy and one stressed-out pussy. Harold, a well-to-do but lonely older gentlemen, takes up with young street prostitute, Johnny. With everyone after a slice of the pie, someone's bound to get it in the end… You'll never look at a choc-top in the same way again. From the author of Edinburgh Fringe sell-outs Jane Austen's Guide to Pornography and Butt Boy and Tigger. Warning: contains nudity, strong language, bad wigs and liver spots. 'Steven Dawson's latest outing is Queer as Folk meets Pretty Woman' (Stage Whispers). Ages 16+.

Out Cast Theatre (Australia).

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Mr Braithwaite Has a New Boy

14 Aug 20122 stars

Decent performances can’t redeem predictable Aussie farce

With this new comedy by Steven Dawson (who also directs and designs it), Melbourne’s LGBT-focused theatre company Out Cast Theatre plays lazily to the crowd, favouring lashings of none-too-subtle and none-too-imaginative cheap smut and broadly-drawn…

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