Reviewed by Joe Calleri
Published in Herald Sun on line on April 05, 2012
Stars: ***1/2
Matty Grey in Age-Less
MATTY Grey’s new, 75-minute comedy show, Age-Less (which comes from Grey’s exhortation to the audience not to age), is designed for kids aged five to 12 years, plus their parents.
It succeeds due to its lack of pretention, shambolic simplicity (sight gags, fart and poo jokes never age), audience participation (myself included), a few sugary prizes for the kids, and an energetic, skilled kids’ entertainer who started off as a stand-up comic, and progressed to being a kids’ birthday entertainer.
If you can survive that job with your sanity intact, you can survive anything!
Grey greets his audience garishly dressed like the Mad Hatter (right down to the wonderful, purple top hat) and his more frenetic lost cousin.
The show has some flaws: it lacks coherent themes, suffers from loose writing and direction, and some gags fall flat, but who the heck cares when your kids are enjoying themselves so much wrapping a mum in toilet paper, singing happy birthday, or throwing pillows at each other and some parents during a mass pillow fight. Priceless!
On the day of this performance, the small Northcote theatre was overflowing, with some children and parents resorting to sitting on the aisles. So, parents, please arrive at the theatre on time to secure seats.
When your kids yell that something was “awesome”, you know you have a winner.Stars: ★★★½
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