WINNER – Fringe Weekly Best Comedy – Adelaide Fringe 2016
NOMINATED – Arts Editor Award – FRINGE WORLD 2016
Douglas Walker is returning to Perth FRINGE WORLD with his second one-man show, after the success of his debut offering, MOGLICH in 2016, which was praised for its theatrical presentation, blending of absurd humour with dark and tragic elements, and its satisfying and intelligently written comedy. It found critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe before garnering attention from awards panels in Perth and Adelaide.
KOMISCHER (German for both 'funnier' and 'weirder') retains the theatrical presentation, off-beat sketches and unusual characters of MOGLICH, but bears a lighter tone. It is comedy about comedy. A sketch show about stand-up to be exact. Where MOGLICH explored how we treat our comedians, KOMISCHER looks at how comedians treat their material.
From 8-12 February in Pho Barn at Noodle Palace at 6.50pm, the audience sees Douglas grappling with what kind of comedian he wants to be, what kind of material he wants to write, and what he owes to his own material once it’s written. After all, jokes are delicate. If they're not treated with care they can go badly wrong. It's a real responsibility.
About Douglas Walker:
Douglas Walker’s incisive and insightful writing is coupled with a formidable acting talent honed over six years with Fringe favourites, the improv troupe Racing Minds. The joyous love for absurd narratives and larger-than-life characters, familiar to their fans, still shines through in Walker's solo work, but here it is mixed with an intricacy of execution and a subtle appreciation for both the surreal and the satirical that transforms those elements into something more than comic. Walker delights in testing the boundaries of what comedy might do, and what an audience might expect from a comedy show.
Douglas has performed in Australia, Belgium, Poland and the Netherlands, lectured on improvised comedy at the University of Westminster and is a regular contributor to one of London's most popular alternative comedy events, Stand Up Philosophy.
"Walker is a gifted actor and…has remarkable range, veering from darkness into the whimsical – blending the two with devastating effect” (The Skinny, UK)
“Poignant and oddly beautiful ... impressive and clever; a slow-burn oddity that provides some glimpses into the darker parts of a comic mind” (The West Australian)
"An extremely refined, high-concept show that stands
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