Philip Patston’s live shows at the NZ International Comedy Festival getting rave reviews!
Written by admin2 on May 16th, 2009Filed under: Regular Contributors, Philip Patston, Themes, Cerebral Ballsy, Wheelchairman of the Board
Reviewer Rachael McKinnon attended Philip Patston’s May 2nd performance in Auckland, and wrote a glowing review for TVNZ. Here are the highlights:
From the moment you walk—or wheel—into the Herald Theatre for Philip Patston’s New Zealand International Comedy Festival Show, “A Bit of What He’s Got,” it is clear that you are not in for an hour of conventional stand-up comedy.
This is not for the obvious reasons of his well-earned spot on the margins of the margins as a gay, disabled, ex-vegetarian and even ex-Shortland Street extra . . . Philip Patston invites his audience to stare at, interpret and decipher the various facets to his personality.
This debate is not one-sided either, he projects an image of his flyer on the screen behind him accompanied by his mobile number and invites the audience to text him feedback throughout the show . . . Inevitably the audience had a sense of humour as well.
Philip begins the show by pacing back and forth across the stage, telling the audience this is how he would perform if he could walk.
“The Common Experience,” he explains, is reserved for those of us who dominated the middle section of the seats—as the front and back rows were reserved for individuals in wheelchairs and their mobility dogs, who were so well-behaved they earned a poetic shout-out from Philip.
His perspective is anything but boring. Philip never loses the crowd.
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