Sam Simmons - About the Weather

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Nominee - Best Comedy, Edinburgh Fringe 2011. Australia's maestro of suburban absurdism is back. A man is standing next to another man, they have nothing in common and nothing to speak of, perhaps they can talk about the weather. Winner - Best Comedy, Adelaide Fringe 2011. Nominee - Best Comedy, Melbourne Comedy Festival 2011. One of the top five comedy moments in 2011, (Time Out). 'A breathlessly inventive psycho-comedy' ★★★★★ (Independent) ★★★★★ (Telegraph), ★★★★★ (Herald), ★★★★★ (Scotsman). All ages.

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Sam Simmons - About the Weather

19 Aug 2012

Noisy ‘play’ fails to do Aussie comic justice

Imagine a shouty hybrid of the horror movie Videodrome and that creepy old record ‘Sparky’s Magic Piano’ and you have a fairly accurate idea of Sam Simmons’ play-within-a-Fringe-comedy, About the Weather. ‘It’s going to be weird for an hour,’ roars the…

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