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on sale now… the men my mother loved
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a new gig about ‘the men my mother loved’… including all the music I grew up listening to… and the men who made it… playing ADELAIDE CABARET FESTIVAL 20th and 21st June. get em here: http://www.adelaidecabaretfestival.com.au/Tommy-Bradson.aspx?showid=113# “The man my mother … Continue reading
the day hollywood died
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This is one to keep an eye peeled for. Although I’ve never peeled an eye. Perhaps not the best idea if you want to be able to see this movie. Maybe peel an eye that’s not your own. I play … Continue reading
‘elegantly vulgar and ferociously poetic’
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http://www.australianstage.com.au/201110044835/reviews/melbourne/pirate-rhapsody-mermaid-requiem.html Arrrh, it’s pirate cabaret! And can I just say before going any further what a relief it is to see a pirate who is not modelled on, inspired by or in any other way shamelessly copied from Johnny Depp … Continue reading
‘bawdy cabaret and hypnotic revelation’
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Described as “the real Little Mermaid” and “poetic filth”, I had thought to see a dark, grungy and twisted Hans Christian Andersen homage. Instead, Tommy Bradson plies our emotions with the insecure, yet pleading and emphatic, musings of a sailor … Continue reading
‘haunting, desperate, cheeky, ranting, gyrating, hilarious and tragic’
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http://www.artshub.com.au/au/news-article/reviews/performing-arts/pirate-rhapsody-mermaid-requiem-185551 Stop what you are doing. Set your DVD player to record. Cancel dinner with your parents. If you are working late, call in sick. Award-winning writer/performer Tommy Bradson is performing Pirate Rhapsody, Mermaid Requiem this week at the Seymour … Continue reading
“she’s a fiesty ranga”
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http://thesydneyfringe.com.au/blog/2011/a-drag-fairytale-with-added-pirates/ Tommy Bradson’s latest show, Pirate Rhapsody, Mermaid Requiem, is a musical performance inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid. But it’s about as far as you can imagine from Disney’s sanitised retelling. Rather, it’s dirty, funny, and yet … Continue reading
“F**k Disney! They lied to us.”
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http://www.au.timeout.com/melbourne/comedy/events/1642/tommy-bradson-pirate-rhapsody-mermaid-requiem Time Out Interview by Andrew P Street Bradson brings his eye-catchingly peculiar show to the Sydney & Melbourne Fringe Festivals What’s Pirate Rhapsody, Mermaid Requiem about? The show is my own musical retelling of the cautionary childrens tale The … Continue reading
‘most people waste their whole lives, what’s an hour on a little song and dance?’
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http://www.theatrepeople.com.au/features/pirate-rhapsody-mermaid-requiem-tommy-bradson When I was a young I was fed the same fairytales as every other suppressed suburban child thrust in front of the telly. Mama had a few moments of quiet time as my brother and I sat on the … Continue reading
‘Bradson holds his audience by the balls’
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http://theatrepress.com.au/2011/07/21/review-tommy-bradson-in-pirate-rhapsody-mermaid-requiem/ Down into cabaret depths with this seductive and scurvy tale… Tommy Bradson is a passionate performer who barely draws breath during his poetic and emblazed performance. His cabaret Pirate Rhapsody Mermaid Requiem for the Melbourne Cabaret Festival is an unbridled verbal … Continue reading
‘has your jaw hitting the floor almost every time he opens his mouth’
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http://www.fringereview.co.uk/fringeReview/3888.html Low Down Tommy Bradson and co stare blankly at the crowd waiting for them to settle into their not so comfortable seats. Crammed in like sardines, we feel like sailors in an overcrowded vessel. The lights are dim, the … Continue reading
‘bitterly twisted, politically incorrect and brutally sarcastic’
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http://www.ripitup.com.au/article/2790 There are two sides to every story. Although Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaidis a fairytale of devoted love, it’s also unrequited and sad. Tommy Bradson portrays both sides of the story with brilliant style and flair. The vile … Continue reading
‘scabrous, filthy, stylish’
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http://www.australianstage.com.au/201004093390/reviews/micf-10/when-the-sex-is-gone-|-tommy-bradson.html Outstanding entertainment. Original, compelling, innovative and different. Very different. Exquisitely written and performed, When the Sex is Gone takes you on several familiar and less familiar travels deep into the darkened alleys and valleys of lust. In his first … Continue reading