Comedy Festival 2018: Aunty Donna a class act in Glennridge Secondary College ★★★★
GET your skates on and catch Aunty Donna before the boys wear themselves out.
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GET your skates on and catch Aunty Donna before the boys wear themselves out.
Mark Samual Bonanno, Broden Kelly and Zachary Ruane tear through their latest Melbourne International Comedy Festival show like playground tykes ... as they should.
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It’s titled Glennridge Secondary College, after all. But when the bells stop ringing at their hilariously sketched suburban high school, and its time for recess, the Donnas like to kick back in a park.
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Ruane, Kelly and Bonanno are a powder keg of comic energy and in Glennridge Secondary College they let rip with rapid-fire sketches and songs that nail life in the classroom. Kelly’s roll call is an absolute standout but all the Donnas — playing to a thumping soundtrack — have huge fun with nerdy geography teachers, pottery kilns and the moon landing.
That’s all. Excused.
Aunty Donna, Glennridge Secondary College
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