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“she’s a fiesty ranga”

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 also … Continue reading

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‘most people waste their whole lives, what’s an hour on a little song and dance?’

… an interview by Adele Scott for THEATRE PEOPLE …  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 … Continue reading

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‘has your jaw hitting the floor almost every time he opens his mouth’

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

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‘bitterly twisted, politically incorrect and brutally sarcastic’

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

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‘scabrous, filthy, stylish’

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 incarnation, … Continue reading

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‘nothing short of astounding’

http://anewleaf.com.au/2010/03/30/tommy-bradson-when-the-sex-is-gone/ On a sultry Thursday evening, the Butterfly Club smells of the sweat of performers past. It could not be a more fitting venue for the ensuing tale of an erotic underworld as Tommy Bradson, known in this place as … Continue reading

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‘confronting, absorbing, original, very funny, very wicked, very clever, very dark’

“When the Sex is Gone” is styled “a theatrical portrait of eroticism”. What is fails to add is that it is one of the most confronting, absorbing, original, very funny, very wicked, very clever, very dark, sexual seventy minutes you … Continue reading

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‘brave new comedy, brave new theatre, brave new cabaret’

Part stand-up comedy, part dark cabaret, part Angela Carter-style magic realism, When The Sex Is Gone is all surprisingly entertaining and engaging. Like a long novel that, five pages in, you’re suddenly delighted to find stretches to a haemorrhoid-scorching 800, the widely … Continue reading