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Theatre Review: Julia Morris – I Don’t Want Your Honest Feedback

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Reviewed 29 August 2015Screen Shot 2015-08-31

It’s quite hard and daunting to review a show entitled I Don’t Want Your Honest Feedback. Does one lie and give dishonest feedback (i.e. it was dreadful) or does one give truly honest feedback (i.e. it was the best thing since sliced bread)? Let’s go with the latter: the complete honest truth!

Julia Morris is undoubtedly the funniest female stand-up comic in Australia. There is a nice lovable quality to her and her laugh out loud ‘down-to-earth’iness. Morris had the Adelaide audience eating out of her hand as she walked on, without even uttering a word. When she did, she proved to be as glittering, sparkly and bright as the little red dress she was wearing.

I Don’t Want Your Honest Feedback is only partly about this fairly modern, annoying trend of people telling us what they think of us – and us of them. Thanks to the Internet, FaceBook, Twitter etc and the new social media age that we live in, we need to satisfy our urge to express our god-given right to ‘post’ and say things that we never would have in the past. We even go on-line these days to fill in surveys in order to give our honest feedback. Morris gives us some brilliant, hilarious and all too recognisable examples to revel in.

The rest is Morris’ very funny, skewed look at her life from childhood to this very moment. Although similar to   some of her previous shows, this one is still fresh and zingy. Instead of being aided by a lap-top, Morris is now using a phone to display her slides, and has up-dated her anecdotes to include her stints on such television programs as Australia’s Celebrity Apprentice, Australia’s Got Talent, I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here and, of course, House Husbands. She has also included a nice little running gag involving a certain co-host and celebrity vet constantly ringing her phone while the show is on and stalking her – this leads up to a delightful punch line.

Julia Morris is certainly deserving of her nom-de-plume of Queen of Comedy, and is guaranteed to have you weak with laughter. This is a lady that enjoys herself and makes sure that her audience does to.

Sorry, but I’ve given my honest feedback.

Reviewed by Brian Godfrey
Twitter: @briangods

 

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