Adelaide Theatre Guide – What Makes a Man Bare All?

4 May 2004 | Published in Fringe Shows, Media | Comments Off on Adelaide Theatre Guide – What Makes a Man Bare All?

Adelaide Theatre Guide - What Makes a Man Bare All?
Billed as an hour show, I had to skip out of this one 80 minutes into it in order to make my next production. Dare I say, it was with some relief that I did so too.
Anthony Jucha is not a comedian. He’s an angry man with too many issues to be funny. Using video footage, some of his stories were amusing, but he spends a lot of the show working himself up over the injustices of this world. He has every right to be angry, as we all should, over the homeless and other unacceptable bi-products of our world, however they don’t belong in a stand up comedy routine.
Soursob Bob, looking as feral as he promotes himself to be, is the support act who opens the show and fills in while Jucha presumably leaves the stage to calm down again. Bob is the best thing about this show, not least of all because he doesn’t hold a running sheet in his hand to remind him of what to say next.
Enough said. 1 star out of 5.
Review by Rod Lewis